CNN: Lower Quality Levees in the Poorer Sections of New Orleans

CNN this morning did a series of reports from New Orleans focusing on the problems with that city’s levees. “American Morning’s” Soledad O’Brien first interviewed Joey DIFatta, chairman of St. Bernard Parish, along with New Orleans city council president Oliver Thomas. Later, O’Brien questioned an Army Corps of Engineers colonel. During these discussions, it was suggested that lower quality…
Noel Sheppard
 

Media Ignorant of IQ Facts

Media reports on scientific findings are often misunderstood, misrepresented or overblown. One such example is a study by Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at King's College London. CNN and others claimed "workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana."Of course, that is not even what the study found. The first clue should…
Mithridate Ombud
 

HBO's Bill Maher: Laura Bush is Like "Hitler's Dog

Steve Malzberg at NewsMax.com has reported in his new column that HBO host Bill Maher compared First Lady Laura Bush to "Hitler's dog." I guess that would make President Bush, according to Maher, like Hitler himself!On the Friday, September 23, 2005, episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, as part of a "comedy" bit, Maher was displaying a series of doctored photos to "show" that the President had…
Dave Pierre
 

Rather: CBS 'Doesn't Want Me to' Pursue Bush Guard Story

In a televised interview with former CBSer Marvin Kalb, retired CBS anchor Dan Rather stated that his network will not allow him to continue to pursue the story of President Bush's Air Guard service. "Straight-up, no Chaser, no," the exiled anchor said when asked if he would consider filing a story about it on the "60 Minutes" news magazine since he continues to believe in it. "CBS News…
Matthew Sheffield
 

U.S. vs. Oil Refiners: Are Profits ‘Justified

Dan Gainor
 

Does The Media Promote Racism

Tom Segel
 

NY Times Flip-Flops on Army Corps of Engineers…Again

Faithful readers of NewsBusters are quite aware of the ever-changing opinion of the Army Corps of Engineers by America’s Old Grey Lady, the New York Times.  As reported here and here, the Times for more than a decade has had a very negative view of the Corps.  They have questioned the value of its work, its accounting practices, and the environmental impact of its projects.  However, in the days…
Noel Sheppard
 

Jessica Lange Charges Bush “Traffics in Deadly Lies,” Cites “Mas

Saturday's “anti-war” protest in Washington, DC featured a long list of little-known characters from a litany of far-left and even further out groups with an America-hating agenda. But amongst the speakers on the stage, as shown live by C-SPAN, was actress Jessica Lange. She denounced President Bush's “propensity to lie” and how he's “a man who traffics in deadly lies.” Lange argued that those…
Brent Baker
 

Bush Just Can't Win

Too slow on Katrina, too quick on Rita? During Saturday’s special hour-long NBC Nightly News, reporter Kevin Corke suggested President Bush ran “the risk of looking like a political opportunist” with Hurricane Rita by taking exactly the active hands-on approach demanded by media critics in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast last month.The liberal media are never satisfied.MRC…
Rich Noyes
 

NYT Ombudsman Calls on Paper to Apologize for Geraldo Claim

Mithridate Ombud
 

The New Orleans Crimes That Never Were

Rick Moore
 

CNN Fixated On Negatives of Katrina Rather Than Positives of Rita

Noel Sheppard
 

TIME Cover: Is Man to Blame for Harsher Hurricanes

Tim Graham
 

Russert Lets Jefferson Parish President off the Hook…Again

Noel Sheppard