ABC’s Cuomo Lobs Softballs to Columbia President; Omits Osama

On Monday’s "Good Morning America," co-anchor Chris Cuomo conducted a mostly softball interview with Columbia University President Lee Bollinger about his decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the prestigious school. Rather than grill the University president about the unpopular decision, Cuomo offered friendly questions, such as when he wondered, "What value do you think…
Scott Whitlock
 

Scientists Speak Out Against AP’s Climate Change Fear-mongering

Scientists from all over the world are coming out strongly against an inexcusably hysterical article recently published by the planet's leading wire service. As NewsBusters reported Saturday, the Associated Press published an unbelievably disgraceful article about global warming induced sea level rises supposedly destined to wipe out large amounts of American coastal communities in the next 100…
Noel Sheppard
 

Student Journalists Don't Understand Speech Has Consequences

Richard Newcomb
 

ABC Attacks CEI and 'Fossil Fuel Industry' for 'Disinformation Campaig

'World News' correspondent blames business for misleading the American public about climate change.
Jeff Poor
 

Time's Tumulty Pans Planned SCHIP Veto: 'Really Dumb Fight for Bush

Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Confesses: Mistake to Grant MoveOn.org Deep Discount

Clay Waters
 

NYT’s Paul Krugman Calls Republicans Racists

I wonder how many NewsBusters readers knew they were racist. After all, if the New York Times publishes a column saying that we are, it's got to be so given that it is the paper of record in this country, correct? Ironically, it does seem fitting days after the civil rights protests in Jena, Louisiana, that one of the Times' leading columnists would point fingers at the Party largely…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chicago Columnist: Tobacco 'Kills' But Abortion Only 'Legal

A columnist from a Chicago suburban paper has equated smoking to abortion in order to explain away her support of an abortion mill struggling to open in Aurora, Illinois. Saying that since smoking is legal, and it “kills” people, why shouldn't abortion be legal, we find her reasoning is strained and absurd. If there’s a more ridiculous comparison out there, I'd like to see it. Following her…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate...
NB Staff
 

Globe's Carroll: Bush, Not Ahmadinejad, Desecrates Ground Zero

Mark Finkelstein
 

WashPost Columnists Debate: Pro-Dan Rather vs. Anti-Dan Rather

Monday's Washington Post op-ed page has a debate of sorts between Post columnists on the Dan Rather lawsuit against CBS. Eugene Robinson takes up the pro-Rather side, barely acknowledging Rather's phony documents en route to suggesting Rather "makes a valid argument about the larger issue," that CBS was cowardly in defending the story because corporations don't challenge the government like they…
Tim Graham
 

Olbermann Suggests 'White Wing' GOP Racist, Want to Re-Segregate

Brad Wilmouth
 

The Death of Sportsmanship

Rutgers University is known as the birthplace of college football, but in the last few weeks it's seemed more like the deathplace of sportsmanship.
L. Brent Bozell III
 

Jesse Jackson Fact Check: 'More Blacks in Jail Than College' (w/UPDATE

In speaking about the "Jena 6" case last week, the Rev. Jesse Jackson repeated the oft-heard line that there are "more blacks in jail than college." (In addition to televised reports (CNN), his words were also reported in articles like this one and this one.)Sorry, Reverend, but the line is just not true. In fact, the Washington Post addressed this myth last month in an article about a new…
Dave Pierre