Check Out Newsweek's Notion of a Fair-and-Balanced Bush-Foley Photo

Of all the photos of President Bush and Mark Foley available, this is the one Newsweek chose for its big story on the scandal this week.UPDATE 10-20-2006: The New York Times is displaying the same photo in its online edition of today. Seems that this is the photo of choice in the MSM. Hat tip to Gary Hall.
Mark Finkelstein

CNN Reads Pro-Nuclear Bomb E-Mail: The World Should ‘Congratulate

At the conclusion of CNN’s "Your World Today," which features an international take on the news of the day, anchors Stephen Frazier and Rosemary Church read a variety of e-mails on North Korea’s testing of nuclear weapons. Only in the morally relativistic world of CNN, where all opinions are equal, could a letter like this repeated aloud: Church: "And a completely different view. Soh, from…
Scott Whitlock

Open Thread

Open for discussion on the news of the day and anything else.
NB Staff

NY Times on 'Doyenne of Right-Wing Blogs' Michelle Malkin's 'Questiona

Clay Waters

Networks Miss the Revision: 810,000 Added Jobs

Dan Gainor

Reuters Dismisses Financial Editor Who Wrote Book Attacking Ann Coulte

Tim Graham

Study: 'Daily Show' as Substantive as Evening News Programs

Matthew Sheffield

MSM Fails To Notice Section Of Bob Woodward Book Causing Angry Rift Am

P.J. Gladnick

Time, Newsweek Match TV Pack With Transparently Partisan Foley Scandal

Tim Graham

Olbermann Denounces NewsBusters as 'Worst Persons in the World

On Friday's "Countdown," MSNBC host Keith Olbermann named NewsBusters the "Worst Persons in the World." Olbermann took issue with a posting by NB contributor Al Brown, who mistakenly said Brian Williams instead of Brian Ross. Brown corrected the post after an NB commentor, SMGalbraith, noticed the error. But it was too late: Olbermann had seized the error and made it the centerpiece of his "…
NB Staff

N. Korean Nuke Not Enough to Nudge Nooky Off NBC: 'Lettuce' Focus On F

"A North Korean ICBM hit Hawaii with a 10-kiloton atomic weapon today. Now back to Meredith and Matt for the latest on the burgeoning Mark Foley scandal. Is it doom for Republicans?"Perhaps I exaggerate a tad with that imaginary bit of dialogue, but judging by this morning's 'Today,' you have to wonder. Good Morning America devoted the lion's share of its first half-hour to the N. Korean test of…
Mark Finkelstein

Remembering R.W. Apple And His Liberal Times

Tim Graham

Another Allen Attack (Always Personal) At The Washington Post

Tim Graham

CNN's Mark Preston Sticks Up For Stephanopoulos

Jeff Harrell