MSNBC's Jonathan Alter: Bush 'Signing the Death Warrants' of US Troops

Brad Wilmouth
 

PBS Demotes 'Islam vs. Islamists' Film To The Wee-Hours Circuit

Tim Graham
 

A Judge and a Life Sentence Media Will Ignore

Noel Sheppard
 

NY Times Accidentally Does Opposition Research on Clintons, Attempts C

Tom Blumer
 

Media Ignore New Revelations About Valerie Plame Wilson’s Possible P

If the Senate released a major study on Friday with information suggesting that a key Republican might have committed perjury, would the media report it?Probably every hour on the hour, with front-page headlines Saturday morning, correct?Well, the Senate issued a lengthy analysis on pre-Iraq war intelligence Friday, and in it was information contradicting Valerie Plame Wilson’s sworn testimony…
Noel Sheppard
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: May 19 to

"Get the Hint? Wink Wink? Nudge Nudge?" Katie Couric may be many things (don’t call her perky), but she’s not subtle. The "CBS Evening News" anchor touted a new special on Walter Cronkite, a journalist who "stood up to the Commander in Chief" during an "unpopular war." "We Can Dream, Can’t We?" Former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now the anchor of ABC’s "This Week," took time out of his…
Scott Whitlock
 

Ben Affleck's Vulgar Tirade About Cowardly [Bleeping] Democrats Caving

If you had any questions about how antiwar liberals were going to respond when the Democrats didn’t withdraw American troops from Iraq like they promised during the 2006 campaign, you got your answers last night on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”When the host moved the discussion to what the panel thought of “the Democrats, you know, caving in on this Iraq spending bill,” actor Ben Affleck…
Noel Sheppard
 

Geraldo Spotlights Illegals, Stuck in the 'Shadows

Geoffrey Dickens
 

ABC's Tapper: Gore Implies In Book He Would Have Prevented

At his blog Political Punch, ABC reporter Jake Tapper has been reading Al Gore's new book The Assault on Reason. He has an online analysis going through the "liberal red meat," and perhaps the knee-slapping funniest line -- coming from a man who stood silently in support of  Bill Clinton every day of his scandalous presidency, except when he was honoring him as "one of our greatest presidents"…
Tim Graham
 

Reuters: Classic Bad Republican/Good Environmentalist Story - Despite

Warner Todd Huston
 

CBS Evening News Champions the New 'Al Gore 2.0,' Now Known as 'The Go

“He was once called 'Mr. Stiff.' Now he's known as 'The Goreacle,' the new Al Gore,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric touted in plugging an upcoming Friday night story. With “Gore 2.0” on screen, Couric set up the subsequent tribute by asserting that “no one's getting more attention than the latest edition of Al Gore. Sharyn Alfonsi reports on Gore 2.0.” Attention from the media, certainly.…
Brent Baker
 

N.Y. Times Touts Amnesty Bill With Poll, But Poor-Mouthed Tax Cut Poll

Tim Graham
 

CBS Airs Insurance Hit Piece Just in Time for 'Sicko

Julia A. Seymour
 

Just In Time for 'Sicko,' CBS Levels Two-Part Attack on Private Health

'Evening News' gathers anti-industry sources for airing of grievances against U.S. system.
Jeff Poor