On Iraq War Anniversary, Couric Leaves U.S. Ambassador on Cutting-Room

READ UPDATE AT FOOT: Bill O'Reilly and guests discuss how "conservative bloggers" impacted the story.To mark yesterday's fourth-anniversary of the war in Iraq, CBS News requested an interview with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. The ambassador took time from a hectic war-time schedule to speak from Baghdad with Katie Couric, and in the course of the interview provided a first-hand…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Image of Terrorism the Media Will Never Share

Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and comment.
NB Staff
 

'The View' on The Pledge: Being Totally Patriotic Means Not Being Patr

Tim Graham
 

Conspiracy Theory: ABC Suggests GOP Behind '1984' Anti-Hillary Ad

Mark Finkelstein
 

Wal-Mart's Bank Plan Withdrawal: AP Shows Strange Sympathy for the Big

Friday, Wal-Mart dropped its bid to establish a federally insured bank. It's ridiculous that they had so much trouble getting approved, because as the linked article noted: Industrial banks have been proliferating in recent years — Target Corp., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Harley-Davidson Inc. are among the nearly 60 that now exist. Critics say their growth dangerously blurs the line between…
Tom Blumer
 

It's Unanimous: All Dem-Friendly Stories This Morning at The Politico

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Now Farming Out the Bias to College Kids

Looks like "Couric & Co." are looking for summer interns for CBS's "Springboard" program. And college journalism students are in luck, they can write up an original story on global warming to get the job:Here is how it works. First, create an original story based on one of three topics: climate change; the American Spirit; or Iraq war veterans. These are issues that have all received…
Ken Shepherd
 

CNN's Blitzer, Cafferty Regret Minimum Wage Hike Not Retroactive

On Monday's The Situation Room, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty expressed frustration that the Democratic Congress has not yet passed a minimum wage increase, even lamenting that the increase could not be made retroactive. After Blitzer seemed to seriously ask if the minimum wage increase could be made retroactive to November, Cafferty rhetorically exclaimed that it should be "retroactive to…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Jan LaRue Joins CMI's Board of Advisors

Lawyer and commentator will advise, write for MRC's Culture and Media Institute
CMI
 

NBC's Today Show Labels Purity Movement 'Controversial

Children abstaining from sex until adulthood appears to be an alien concept in certain media circles.
Kristen Fyfe
 

On War Anniversary, Nets Stress Dire Views of Iraqis, Skip How Iraqis

ABC anchor Charles Gibson led on Monday night, the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, with the results of a door-to-door survey of more than 2,000 Iraqis conducted for ABC News (and USA Today). Gibson started the “sobering report” with how “fewer than half the Iraqis, just 42 percent, said life was better now than it was under Saddam Hussein.” Gibson, however, failed to explain…
Brent Baker
 

The Uncontrolled Demolition of Rosie O'Donnell

Has Rosie O'Donnell gone from being just another vociferous media liberal to a full-blown 9-11 conspiracy theorist? It would appear so. Have a look at Rosie's recent blog entry, wherein she serves up an array of controlled-demolition eccentricity. Turns out, according to O'Donnell, 9-11 was all a big plot to do away with FBI and other investigative files on Smith Barney, WorldCom and . . .…
Mark Finkelstein
 

'World News' Leaves Out Lenders' Two Cents

Julia A. Seymour