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Wonderful Wednesday...
NB Staff

NYT: John Edwards Iowa Event 'Picturesquely American -- Democracy in A

Clay Waters

CNN's Velshi: 'We've been underpaying minimum wage earners for too lon

'American Morning' business reporter gets math right, but goes left with his politics.
Jeff Poor

NY Daily News Misleads About Bush Linking Iraq and

The New York Daily News perpetrated an interesting, yet subtly misleading headline about president Bush's Charleston, South Carolina speech on Al Qaeda in Iraq today in theirs titled "W still ties Iraq, 9/11." Following the left's playbook of claiming Bush has illicitly linked Saddam's Iraq to 9/11 their headline made it seem as if Bush, indeed, "still ties" 9/11 to Iraq. It is, of course, a…
Warner Todd Huston

Home Protection, MSM Style: Killer Cacti But No Guns

No guns please, we're liberals . . . As soon as "Good Morning America" began to tease an upcoming how-to segment today on protecting against home invasion, I immediately suspected the show wouldn't discuss one obvious measure: obtaining fireams and learning to use them. And sure enough . . . GMA ran the segment in the wake of the horrific home-invasion in Connecticut in which the the wife and…
Mark Finkelstein

Time's Deep Bow to Islam: Hailing the Head-to-Toe 'Burqini' Swimsuit a

It’s amazing how supposedly liberal and feminist publications that enjoy roasting conservative Christians will turn around and honor Islamic traditions as the latest rage. Witness Time’s promotional coverage this week of the "Burqini," the head-to-toe women’s swimsuit. If this was a Pat Robertson idea, they’d be bowled over laughing. But it’s Islamic, so it’s surprisingly chic. The front page of…
Tim Graham

AP: Sells Moore's/Cuba's Propaganda, 8 Americans Graduate from Cuban M

The AP did a fine job for Cuba's ministry of propaganda the other day by highlighting the 8 Americans who broke U.S. law and traveled to Cuba to attend a medical school, free of charge to the students. Castro offered this free medical training as a propaganda tool to create good PR for his oppressive regime and the AP is more than willing to help him advertise it. In the same story, they also…
Warner Todd Huston

CBS's Pitts Slants Philadelphia Murder Story to the Left

Brad Wilmouth

Big Media Ignores Pew Poll's Good News in War on Terror

Support for bin Laden and suicide bombings is waning in the Muslim world, but the mainstream media fail to tell the story.
Colleen Raezler

CBS Ambushes the Second Amendment

Network calls for more gun control and federal spending, but not moral reform, to curb inner city violence.
David Niedrauer

Mommy, Where are the Heroes

Tuesday was a sad day for sports fans.
Kristen Fyfe

Journalism Wrap-Up

Journalists far and wide are still crying about Rupert Murdoch possibly owning the Wall Street Journal. Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff said a Murdoch-owned WSJ would suffer "the loss of a few points of I.Q., a quickened pace, a higher sense of drama, less accurate, perhaps, but less tedious too, and, likely, a keener instinct for following the money." So for all of you psych majors who thought IQ…
Mithridate Ombud

MRC/NB's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes About Magazine's Derogatory Soldie

Brent Bozell, President of NewsBusters parent the Media Research Center, appeared Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. Topic: Swirling questions about the accuracy of The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist," writing under the pseudonym "Scott Thomas," a presumed soldier who has penned derogatory stories about the behavior of U.S. soldiers in Iraq running over dogs,…
NB Staff

Everyone's A Winner? CNN's Crowley Passes Out the Candy for Top Dems

One way you can tell the media roots for liberal Democrats is by how it can’t choose just one for president. They’re all still viable, so...they’re all still fabulous. Trying to say one is better than the others seems just impossible for some reporters. And what about when the candidates fight each other? The fights are minimized, since Democratic party unity is important for their electability.…
Tim Graham