Open Thread

So how's that conversion thing working out for you? Anything else on your mind?
NB Staff

Gore Gorges on Overfished Sea Bass

Pam Meister

NYT Paints Tearful Picture of Deported Illegal Immigrant

Warner Todd Huston

Nets Bury Elizabeth Edwards 'Behaves Like a Man' Hillary Swipe

Quick -- which is Hillary Clinton's bigger liability as a candidate?:A. She's an insufficiently ardent feminist; orB. Her personality is cold, calculating and unfeminine.If you've been living on Planet Earth since 1992, surely your answer is 'B.' So when Elizabeth Edwards adds fuel to that fire, accusing Hillary of behaving like a man, that is very newsworthy stuff. Unless you're NBC or ABC,…
Mark Finkelstein

Article or Editorial? Times Talks of Desperate Bush Admin, U.S. 'Mire

As straight news articles go, it was a heck of an editorial that appeared on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. The ostensible subject of Bush to Bolster Abbas and Seek Peace Talks was President Bush's announcement Monday of "a regional peace conference this fall to be led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that would include high-level Arab envoys and their counterparts from…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Uses Democrat Helpers To Explain How Democrats Now 'Get Religion

Monday’s Early Show on CBS picked up on Time magazine’s promotional cover story "How The Democrats Got Religion." Reporter Jeff Glor used two guides to explore how the Democrats would "level the praying field," but didn’t exactly tell viewers that these guides were involved in the drive to help the Democrats. The first expert was Time magazine’s Amy Sullivan, who wrote a "God Gap" essay for the…
Tim Graham

Newsweek Takes a Look at Modesty – but Keeps It at Arm's Length

Shouldn't the editors know intuitively that modesty is a good thing?
Colleen Raezler

Energy Expert Bashes Media, EPA Regulations, Ethanol, and Global Warmi

As oil and gas prices have risen over the past few years, more and more Americans have become familiar with the name Trilby Lundberg. For those that aren’t, the Lundberg Survey has been the source for information related to fuel prices, fuel taxes, and all things petroleum for over fifty years. With that in mind, Lundberg was interviewed by the folks at CNN.com last Wednesday, and the never…
Noel Sheppard

Newsweek Warmly Imagines Virus Wiping Out Man, Earth's 'Most Disruptiv

Newsweek writer Jerry Adler penned an environmental-extremist quote for the ages in the last issue of 1990, writing "It's a morbid observation, but if everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem." More than 16 years later, Adler’s on the morbid anti-human bandwagon again in this week’s Newsweek with an entire page-long article reporting…
Tim Graham

CNN's Ware Warns of Bush 'Smoke and Mirrors' Meant to Provoke 'Pavlovi

Appearing from Baghdad on Tuesday's Situation Room to discuss the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), CNN correspondent Michael Ware strayed from reporting into opinion-making as he rued “the smoke and mirrors from the administration” trying to make Iraq about al Qaeda to invoke a “Pavlovian response from the American public.” He also mocked General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs…
Brent Baker

Global Warming 'Caused by Baby Boomers as They Go Through Menopause

Is global warming caused by greenhouse gases or ozone depletion? A comedian who simply calls himself Chick doesn’t think so. In fact, Chick has created a video that offers his own side-splitting take on this controversial subject that is sure to thrill conservatives while angering liberals. Obviously, the latter is just a scrumptious ancillary benefit. That said, readers should be…
Noel Sheppard

CBS: Choice Is a Dirty Word

Julia A. Seymour

'Evening News' Attacks Privatization of Medicare

CBS report says Medicare Advantage program causes 'untold confusion' and mentions seniors 'scared to death.'
Jeff Poor

Latest Whitewash of Terrorist Group Hamas by NYT's Steven Erlanger

Clay Waters