Olbermann Skips Own Hypocrisy on The Reagans v 9/11 Movie, Castigates

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who in late 2003 devoted a fraction of the time to CBS's The Reagans movie as he has just this week to liberal complaints about ABC's The Path to 9/11 (he's led Countdown with it for two nights in a row), castigated MRC President Brent Bozell for supposed hypocrisy in criticizing The Reagans while not denouncing the new 9/11 movie. Naming Bozell his “Worst Person in the…
Brent Baker
 

ABC & NBC Trumpet: In 'Stinging Rebuke,' a 'Central Argument' for Iraq

Friday's broadcast network evening newscasts delivered three different levels of priority to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report which concluded there were no connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda, hardly fresh news. The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric didn't air a syllable about it , ABC's World News with Charles Gibson teased it and made it the newscast's second story (…
Brent Baker
 

Lauer Scolds Bush: 'Amnesty International Says Secret Sites Against In

Brent Baker
 

For Brangelina, It's Social Liberalism, Not Commitment-Phobia Holding

Ken Shepherd
 

NB's Tim Graham on FNC with Neil Cavuto

NewsBusters Senior Editor Tim Graham appeared on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" to discuss the Clinton team's efforts to censor ABC's upcoming docu-drama, "The Path to 9/11." Graham said the Clinton administration was acting like a "bunch of babies that can't handle criticism." Neil Cavuto asked whether the situation was similar to CBS' pulling of a Reagan movie after pressure from…
NB Staff
 

Times Reporter Suggests Conservatives Are Paid For With Wal-Mart Money

But a recent study shows Wal-Mart gave 289 times more money to liberal groups in 2004.
Ken Shepherd
 

ABC's Nightline Highlights Hillary-Loving Republican; Throws Clinton S

While former President Bill Clinton is angry with ABC over the content of it’s miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," he shouldn’t find much to complain about regarding the network’s news coverage of his wife. The entire Wednesday edition of ABC’s "Nightline" was devoted to anchor Cynthia McFadden’s day of campaigning with Senator Hillary Clinton in upstate New York. The half hour was full of softball…
Megan McCormack
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 2 to September

Look no further than NewsBusters for complete coverage of Katie Couric’s debut as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." The MRC’s Brent Baker began the week by noting a previous Couric claim that she’s not biased, but Fox is. Additionally, the new anchor has hired liberal Douglas Brinkley as the show’s historian. On September 5, Couric appeared on "The Early Show," only to apparently forget the…
Scott Whitlock
 

NY Times Delivers Another Slanted Story on Wal-Mart's 'Conservative' T

Clay Waters
 

Matthews Laments Reading 'Newsmakers' When He Googles Himself

Geoffrey Dickens
 

WashPost Claims Only 'Tens of Thousands' Were Expected At 'Million' Al

Tim Graham
 

MRC Study Finds TV Tilts Againsts War on Terror; Koppel Special Pushes

This morning’s Wall Street Journal carries an editorial summarizing the findings of a new study from the Media Research Center that documents how the broadcast networks have skewed their coverage of the War on Terror in favor of those most concerned about civil liberties, not protecting the American people from another homeland attack. Here’s how it begins:The title of a CBS special report…
Rich Noyes
 

Matthews to NewsBusters: Plame Story Too Complicated to Cover Now

[After being called out by NewsBusters, Matthews ended his boycott late Friday. Be sure and read updates to this post below.] Since the revelation that Richard Armitage, a former high-ranking official in the State Department, was the source of the much-ballyhooed Valerie Plame "leak," many in the media have refused to touch the story with a ten-foot pole. This was quite a turnaround since…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Armitage Says He 'Screwed Up,' Alludes That Plame Was Not Covert

Greg Tinti