Networks Ignore Higher Than Expected GDP Growth

As broadcasts leave out economic growth, The Wall Street Journal spins the 4 percent growth with a negative prediction.
Jeff Poor
 

ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm

On Friday’s "Good Morning America," ABC’s anchors and reporters reacted to Fred Thompson’s entry in the 2008 race with negativity and sarcasm. Co-host George Stephanopoulos asserted that the former senator’s campaign is "never going to catch up on organization." Rattling off Thompson’s problems, the former Clinton aide critiqued, "But he didn't raise as much money as he’d hoped to over the summer…
Scott Whitlock
 

New York Secretly Tracks Employees: Press Yawns

Richard Newcomb
 

MSNBC Re-runs Diana Funeral, Calling It 'Living History Event

Ken Shepherd
 

Oprah Winfrey More Powerful Than Hillary Clinton

You're a former First Lady, a two-term Senator from the great state of New York, and the front-runner to win the Democrat nomination for president of the United States in 2008, and yet, a national business magazine still believes a media mogul who got her start doing a ladies' talk show in Chicago is more powerful than you. That can't be good for the ego, can it? Yet, there it was in the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Ten Years Ago, Lady Di Washed Away Clinton-Gore Fundraising Dirt

Tim Graham
 

Senator Obama Seeks Regulation and Fines for ‘Fly-by-Night’ Lender

Stuart James
 

'11th Hour' Review Says Film is 'Unfocused

Pam Meister
 

Swedish Mohammed-as-dog Sketches Start Another Ridiculous Backlash

Matthew Sheffield
 

Open Thread

Anybody doing anything special for the holiday weekend?
NB Staff
 

Obama Wants More Regulation, But Experts Beg To Differ

Candidate wants 'fly-by-night' lenders regulated and fined, but free market economists propose a different solution: let the market work.
Stuart James
 

Kansas City Star: La Raza Hispanic Activists More Desirable Than Patri

Warner Todd Huston
 

Metaphor-mad NYT Defends Craig: Stupidity No Cause to Cast Him Out of

When the Larry Craig case broke, I noted the New York Times's unusual diffidence in reporting it. Senator, Arrested at Airport, Pleads Guilty was all the Times's cryptic headline told us, failing to indicate Craig's name, party affiliation, or the crime for which he had been not merely "arrested" but to which he had pleaded guilty.At the time I surmised that the Times's bashfulness could have…
Mark Finkelstein
 

The Story Stalls Here

Ft. Lauderdale is among the nation's leaders in new AIDS cases, but the media are willfully blind to the consequences of men irresponsibly having sex with strangers in public bathrooms. Mayor Jim Naugle is trying to stop the practice and cut the HIV infection rate -- and the Miami Herald actually called him a hate-monger for trying to save the lives of the people he's supposed to hate. Is it…
Robert Knight