Goldberg Recalls Russert's Call for Newsroom Ideological Diversity

Appearing by phone on Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg recalled for fill-in host Laura Ingraham how Tim Russert recognized there should be more to newsroom diversity than just diversity by gender and skin tone, that “you need ideological diversity.” Goldberg, who departed CBS News a few years after he pointed out their liberal bias, lamented: I…
Brent Baker

Flashback: In 2001, FNC's Brian Wilson Gave His Jacket to Russert

Brent Baker

NBC to Air Special Tonight on Tim Russert at 10 PM EDT/PDT

Brent Baker

Silent (D) at ABC: Network Website Ignores Dem Affiliations in Loan Sc

Ken Shepherd

CNN’s Roland Martin: ‘Idiot Democrats’ Behind Michelle Obama Rum

CNN contributor Roland Martin, a known Barack Obama sympathizer, surprisingly isn’t buying the argument that conservatives/Republicans are behind the rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" comment. During a segment on Thursday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," substitute anchor Campbell Brown asked Martin, "Republicans have made it clear, pretty much, that Michelle is fair game here. Are you surprised by the…
Matthew Balan

USA Today Cover Story Down on Drilling, Up on Alternative Fuels to Eas

Sidebars on solutions to high gas prices paint rosy picture for unproven gasoline substitutes and make drilling not seem worthwhile.
Jeff Poor

MRC's Bozell on the Passing of 'Meet the Press' Host Tim Russert

NB Staff

Weekend Captionfest

Hillary Clinton bears have been marked down at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelburne, VT. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
NB Staff

'Early Show' Tells Us How to Live 'the Right Way in the 21st Century

Show highlights green living, promoting Planet Green documentary.
Amy Menefee

ABCNews.com: Michelle Obama More like Jackie O Than Kerry's Wife

Picking up on the media's meme that a vast right-wing hate machine is going at full-tilt against Michelle Obama, ABCNews.com wants readers to know that the Illinois senator's wife is "more Jackie O Than Teresa [Heinz Kerry]."The story made the "top headlines" lineup for the afternoon of June 13, along with a headline tease for recent video from Fox News Channel where an onscreen graphic labeled…
Ken Shepherd

NBC’s David Gregory Spikes Rev. Wright/Clinton Story; Cites Jewish B

Has NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory turned over a new leaf? Gregory, who has earned a lot of critics for having an anti-Bush/liberal bias, made it seem that way during a discussion about ethics in politics and journalism Thursday. He claimed to struggle with Jewish teachings about saying bad things about others - at least when it comes to Democrats. Gregory, who is Jewish, said…
Jeff Poor

House GOP Leader: FCC Proposing Government Takeover of Broadcast Media

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday urging him to drop recent proposals which amount to "a sweeping takeover by Washington bureaucrats of broadcast media."In his correspondence, Boehner claimed the "proposals and recommendations for Commission action contained in the NPR amount to the stealth enactment of…
Noel Sheppard

Obama VP Committee Member Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure

Now that Jim Johnson has quit Barack Obama's vice-presidential candidate selection team, maybe somebody, anybody, in the media, instead of making "He's havng a bad day" excuses, might focus on the questionable judgment of Barack Obama in having Eric Holder serve on that team. Besides his already-known role in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier…
Tom Blumer

Barnicle: 'Hillary Like First Wife Outside Probate Court' Taken 'Out o

Q. What's weaker than playing the "taken out of context" card?A. Digging yourself deeper with the supposedly exculpatory explanation.Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his mishandling of the flap over the way he described Hillary back in January. Barnicle was on Morning Joe, and discussion turned to a New York Times article, Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage, that…
Mark Finkelstein