Bozell Column: Debating The Shooter's Publicity Kit

-- So, you think NBC shouldn’t have aired that Cho Seung-Hui video, do you?-- NBC has a new definition for its initials: the Narcissism Broadcasting Company. How fitting it is that their logo is a peacock. It’s bad enough that this monster gunned down 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech. But in between murder sprees this vicious, calculating killer calmly went to the post office and sent an…
Brent Bozell
 

Media to U.S.: Lose the Guns, Get Sophisticated

Journalists bemoan American 'gun culture,' ignoring facts and common sense in their dramatic attempts at persuasion.
Amy Menefee
 

CBS Blogger: We Need More Gun Control Stories

Ken Shepherd
 

Barbara Walters Rants Against Bush...For Disrupting Her Walk Home

Justin McCarthy
 

Media Blame Businesses in the Wake of Tech Tragedy

BMI Staff
 

Reporter Apologizes to Duke Lacrosse Team

Matthew Sheffield
 

Media Blame Businesses in the Wake of Tech Tragedy

Gun makers and sellers vilified for gunman's rampage.
Julia A. Seymour
 

NYT's Nagourney Apologizes for John Edwards 'Breck Girl' Crack

YouTube video update at bottom of post.New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney is typically hyper-sensitive to any hint of a Republican "attack" on a Democrat (not so much the other way around). So it was refreshing to read him actually having a little fun needling Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday as "The Breck Girl" for his preening over his hair and looks when he…
Clay Waters
 

CNN’s Person of the Month: Dennis Kucinich

Matthew Balan
 

ABC Article Ignores Rosie's 9/11 Theories, 'Radical Christians,' 'Chin

Ken Shepherd
 

Rosie O'Donnell Leaves 'The View

Update at bottom of post: Other bloggers react to Rosie announcement.Controversial daytime television host Rosie O'Donnell just confirmed rumors on "The View" today that she will be leaving the show."I can't come to terms," O'Donnell said, referring to an ongoing contract dispute that she had been having with ABC, the owner of the show.Despite her departure, O'Donnell will be a "frequent guest…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Open Thread

In case there isn't enough to discuss today already...
NB Staff
 

Al Gore’s Army Brings Global Warming Propaganda to a Town Near You

Be afraid. Be very afraid.Soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore is training people to give his global warming slide presentation at places like “schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes” around the country.I kid you not.As reported by USA Today (emphasis added throughout):Meet, no, not Al Gore, but Gary Dunham, 71, a grandfather from Texas who was the first of 1,000 Americans Gore trained to deliver his Oscar-…
Noel Sheppard
 

Minn. Paper More Sensitive to Church-State than Mosque-State

Matthew Sheffield