Boston Globe Laments JFK Not on Historians' Most Influential List

Warner Todd Huston
 

Shocking Editorial: ‘What People Expect of Newspapers

Imagine a world where the media felt their primary obligation was to inform society of important events and issues “with an openness to consider the different views out there before arriving at any conclusion.” Sounds like heaven, right? Well, NB member ‘lostincyberspace” has shared a fabulous editorial from a Malaysian newspaper called the Sun Daily that should be must reading for American…
Noel Sheppard
 

The New York Times Fails In Effort To Block Justice Department Investi

Terry Trippany
 

'Today' Tips Its Hand: 'Civil War' Label Key To Encouraging Cut-and-Ru

Mark Finkelstein
 

The Hidden Agenda Behind the Pray-In

Robin Boyd
 

Newsweek Publishes Two 'Kramer' Columns on Racism, Both Mention George

Tim Graham
 

Dionne's Siren Song To GOP: Renounce Reagan, Embrace Bill

Mark Finkelstein
 

An Inconvenient Truth: Olbermann Bullies the National Science Teachers

Amy Ridenour
 

Another Pre-election Myth Debunked: Seniors Love New Medicare Drug Ben

Noel Sheppard
 

Bogus Source Cited in NBC 'Civil War' Decision

A transcript posted at the blog Think Progress quotes NBC as factoring in a story from now-discredited source Jamil Hussein about Sunni worshippers being burned alive as a major factor in NBC's decision to declare a "civil war" in Iraq [emphasis added]:The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in…
Al Brown
 

Olbermann Suggests NBC's Iraq 'Civil War' is a 'Walter Cronkite Moment

Brad Wilmouth
 

NB's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes About NBC's Decision to Declare Iraq a

Brent Bozell, the President of the Media Research Center, the parent of NewsBusters, appeared alongside Democratic strategist Laura Schwartz on Monday night's Hannity & Colmes on FNC to discuss the decision by NBC News to call the situation in Iraq a “civil war.” (Earlier NewsBusters items by Mark Finkelstein and by Geoffrey Dickens on how on Today Matt Lauer insisted NBC made the decision “…
NB Staff
 

FNC's Cal Thomas Names Keith Olbermann Turkey of the Year

Brad Wilmouth
 

NBC Concedes Iraq 'Civil War' Description Could 'Erode' Support, ABC

Twelve hours after the Today show repeatedly announced how NBC News had decided to call the situation in Iraq a “civil war,” as if that decision was major news itself, Monday's NBC Nightly News led with the term and conceded it could “erode” public support for the war. Meanwhile, CBS and ABC didn't go quite as far as CBS's Katie Couric referred to how Iraq “slips ever-closer to civil war” and ABC…
Brent Baker