Party Label Disparity in AP Coverage of Crooked Politicians

So let's see, a Democratic former North Carolina state House Speaker gets sentenced to prison for five years and fined $50,000 for bribery. The Associated Press covers the story and doesn't give readers his party affiliation until the 6th paragraph.But a Florida Republican state legislator is only arrested for solicitation of oral sex from an undercover male police officer, and his party…
Ken Shepherd
 

MSM Highlight GOP 'Defections', Ignore Dems Voting Against Their Own

We are seeing all over the MSM the reports highlighting the Republicans in the House and Senate who are turning away from the Party line and voting against -- or at least seeming to vote against -- the President's Iraq war policies. The MSM is presenting this revolt as a momentous thing, unprecedented and presenting it as a loss for the President's ideas. Yet, even as a small number of…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Don't Use the 'A' Word

Media tout condom use, ignore increase in abstinence to explain record low teen birth rate.
Kristen Fyfe
 

Irresponsibility and the Internet

Miss New Jersey pays a price for juvenile shenanigans.
Colleen Raezler
 

Perturbed Reid Chastises ABC's Tapper for Questioning Withdrawal: 'Thi

ABC's Jake Tapper on Thursday night raised the prediction “genocide” will result after a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a forecast Tapper put to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at a Capitol Hill news conference: “Do you think the Iraqi people will be safer with U.S. troops out?” Reid didn't respond to the point, leading Tapper to retort in the exchange played on World News: “You didn't answer my…
Brent Baker
 

'World News' Ga-Ga Over Penguin Protection

Julia A. Seymour
 

Banks Draw Fire from CBS for Charging Fees

Apparently, “CBS Evening News” thinks it shouldn’t be your responsibility to remember to balance your checkbook. Anthony Mason’s July 11 report bashed banks for *GASP* profiting from overdraft fees.“Banks are cashing in on overdrafts, raking in more than $17 billion in fees last year, according to the Center for Responsible Lending” said Mason.The segment, called "Hidden Charges," did not include…
Julia A. Seymour
 

CBS Attacks Banks for Profiting from Overdraft Fees

'Evening News' accuses industry of 'cashing in' and downplays personal responsibility.
Jeff Poor
 

Helen Thomas Leads Pack of Reporters in Pressing Iraq Pullout

Ken Shepherd
 

AP Buried Political Party of Corrupt Jail-Bound Democrat

July 11, the AP wrote that former NC state House Speaker Jim Black was sentenced to five years for “taking cash to promote chiropractors,” but the writer forgot to mention until the sixth paragraph that Black is a Democrat. We've seen the phenomena of the media forgetting to identify political parties when a Democrat is portrayed negatively and at times, when a Republican is portrayed positively…
Lynn Davidson
 

BBC Report on Sun and Climate Change Contradicts Its Own 2004 Story

On Thursday, Jules Crittenden wondered if American media are lazy, stupid or willfully ignorant with how they’ve been reporting events in Iraq. Given the BBC’s recent piece concerning the relationship between the sun and climate change which hysterically ignored an article it published almost three years ago with a completely diametric view, one might ask the same question of that British…
Noel Sheppard
 

'Today' Urges Viewers to Donate to Maroon 5's Global Warming Cause

Geoffrey Dickens
 

NPR's Garrison Keillor Mocks War on Terror As Excuse for DHS Tyranny A

Tim Graham
 

Did Live Earth’s Flop Reduce Media Interest in Global Warming

A funny thing happened a few days after Al Gore’s concerts to draw attention to global warming concluded: a significant study out of England stating that changes in the sun’s output are not responsible for climate change went almost thoroughly ignored by America’s media.A report by the BBC on Tuesday, which demonstrably challenged one of the key arguments made by anthropogenic global warming…
Noel Sheppard