MRC-TV: Rich Noyes on Fox News Discusses Media's 'Enchanted' Evening w

The morning after the media's "enchanted" evening with President Obama's 100-day press conference, Media Research Center Director of Research Rich Noyes appeared on the April 30 "America's Newsroom" to do a post-mortem of the media's fawning over the nation's 44th president. [audio excerpt here]The segment began with a discussion of New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny's fawning question about…
NB Staff

The Washington Post Hires Ultraliberal Blogger Ezra Klein

It seems that the Washington Post will soon be welcoming ultra-liberal hack blogger Ezra Klein to their online operations. Klein has often been the subject of stories by NewsBusters. This is what the Politico reported on the Post's acquisition of Klein (h/t OTB):The American Prospect's Ezra Klein, one of the top bloggers on politics and policy, is heading to the Washington Post.Rumors about Klein…
Stephen Gutowski

Open Thread

NB Staff

Obama-Fawning Over at the WaPo - Tom Shales Rhapsodic Over Obama Speec

Christine Hall

Obama-Enchanted, Part II: WaPo Art Critic Finds Smithsonian's 'Superst

Tim Graham

ABC's Charles Gibson Already Thinking About Obama's Second Term

Is "World News" anchor Charles Gibson already planning for Barack Obama's second term? The ABC journalist briefly wrapped up coverage from the President's prime-time press conference on Wednesday and signed off by asserting, "100 days in office. 1,362 days remaining in his first term." 1362 days left in his first term? Was that a bit of a Freudian slip? Even Gibson, however, seemed to notice the…
Scott Whitlock

Ed Schultz Exploits Death of Daniel Pearl for Sake of Bogus Gitmo Abus

Back on April 9, radio host Ed Schultz boasted of his high regard for accuracy while telling listeners about his new television show on MSNBC --Where I work, they don't put stuff on the air unless it's accurate and they differentiate between opinion and fact. And in my world I think that's kind of important. On The Ed Show (Schultz's program on MSNBC), I'm not going to tell you something that I…
Jack Coleman

Despite Stumbles, WaPo's Tom Shales Still Calls Obama 'Smartest Kid in

Tim Graham

ABC Debunked Matthew Shepard Murder as No Hate Crime, MSNBC Savages Re

On Wednesday’s Countdown show, which aired at 9:00 p.m. after President Obama's news conference, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann viciously slammed Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for claiming that murder victim Matthew Shepard – whom the current hate crimes bill is named after – was targeted out of a desire to commit robbery rather than because of anti-gay sentiment by his attacker, contradicting…
Brad Wilmouth

Palin Derangement Syndrome Engulfs Baltimore Sun's TV Guy

Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik should check into a clinic somewhere to have his delicate mental balance checked. Maybe they might have some nice medication he can take to temper his Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS)? He has PDS so bad he can't even write about a little reality TV show without indulging unnecessary vitriol and hate. It's interesting that critic Zurawik gets so filled with…
Warner Todd Huston

A-Minus for Obama from CNN: 'Nuanced... Mastery... Articulate... Capab

CNN's on-staff political analysts and reporters -- not just the left-wing political operatives (Paul Begala and Donna Brazile) were in awe of President Barack Obama's press conference performance. Just after it ended Wednesday night, senior political analyst David Gergen hailed how “in terms of mastery of the issues, we have rarely had a President who is as well briefed and speaks in as…
Brent Baker

Time's Liberal Bias Taught in Schools

Free news magazine for students promotes liberal ideology.
Iris Somberg

CNN Correspondent Jabs President on FOCA, 'Above My Pay Grade' Answer

Ed Henry shows the Obama-fied press corps how to challenge a public official.
Colleen Raezler

AP's Calvin Woodward Does Astonishing Fact Check on Obama

Somebody needs to 'fess up. Who put truth serum in Calvin Woodward's coffee this morning?Whoever it is, they're in a heap of trouble, as Woodward produced a fact-checking critique of Barack Obama that is so good you'd swear most of it was ghostwritten by a conservative talk host.It will be interesting to see how much distribution it gets. I would suggest not counting on too much, but being open…
Tom Blumer