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NewsBusters Shares a Laugh with 'Morning' Joe and Mika
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- The NewsBusters team caught up with "Morning Joe's" Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Tuesday, and had a nice discussion about how she got the nickname "Bubbles."For those that have forgotten, last September, Mika mentioned, "I never had a writing section [on my SATs], just bubbles."This led NB's Mark Finkelstein to nickname her "Bubbles." As a result, when we bumped into…
NYT Questions Palin's 'Parenting'; Bumiller Flubs Palin's AIP 'Members
Editor's Note: A longer version of this article originally appeared on our affiliated site Times Watch.Bristol Palin's pregnancy made the top of the fold of Tuesday's New York Times in a story by Elisabeth Bumiller, who helpfully summarized all the scandalettes (and at least one fake one) burbling around the Palin pick in "Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process." A series of…
NB's Sheffield on KIRO Live from Radio Row @ the RNC
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- NewsBusters editor Matthew Sheffield appeared on KIRO radio, 710 AM in Seattle and available online streaming right here. Sheffield was a guest on the Dori Monson Show, live from Radio Row at the Republican Convention.Among the topics: the liberal lineup at MSNBC covering the Democratic and Republican conventions versus the more politically balanced staff at Fox News, as well as…
CNBC Anchor 'Embarrassed' by Media Coverage of Palin Daughter
'Squawk Box' host upset pregnancy story on 'cover of every paper.'
ABC Resorts to Questionable Ethics ... Again
'World News' goes undercover in segment contrary to journalistic standards, despite having cameraman arrested for same tactics a week before.
Steele Tells NewsBusters Campaign Coverage 'Has Been a Joke
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Yesterday NewsBusters caught up with GOPAC chairman and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele at the Xcel Center, site of the Republican National Convention.Steele told us the coverage of the campaign so far has "been a joke," and that "if the shoe were on the other foot, [media] would be scrutinizing the heck out of a black Republican or a Hispanic Republican" running for…
Media Hyped Gustav Fizzles Out, Oil and Gas Prices Plummet
For almost a week, practically foaming at the mouth media members scared the heck out of the American people presaging doom and gloom in New Orleans as well as rising oil and gas prices all at the hands of a hurricane that hadn't even entered the Gulf of Mexico yet.Of course, let's not forget the reports about Hurricane Gustav destroying the Republican National Convention thereby damaging John…