CBS Trumpets Carter's Criticism of Bush Administration

In a Wednesday CBS Evening News story on shortcomings in FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina, reporter Randall Pinkston cited “frustrations that reached as far away as the state of Maine, where officials received ice that was supposed to go to the Gulf Coast." Pinkston touted how “former President Jimmy Carter, who created FEMA, criticized the Bush administration's decision to strip the…
Brent Baker
 

Jack Cafferty on Tom DeLay: "Has he been indicted yet?" (VIDEO

Ian Schwartz
 

Sound the Alarm! Global Warming on Mars

Greg Sheffield
 

Networks' Scare Tax on Gas Equals 75 Cents a Gallon

Dan Gainor
 

Bette Midler Cites Bush's Coke Dealer, Says “F***” RNC -- Or Was S

Brent Baker
 

CNN’s O’Brien Presses Chertoff About Katrina Failures

On CNN’s “American Morning” today, Soledad O’Brien spent much of her interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff focusing on what happened in New Orleans three weeks ago when Katrina hit rather than questioning the secretary about how prepared the Gulf coast is for the looming Hurricane Rita (video link and full transcript to follow):SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Lots of officials have told…
Noel Sheppard
 

Media Hypocrisy When Poverty Becomes an Issue

No doubt in the coming weeks you will hear Big Media accounts of race, poverty and economic imbalance in the United States. As you read these stories, keep in mind the hypocrisy. While the Publisher and Editor of The New York Times earn $2 million and $650,000 respectively, for entry level journalists they pay below the poverty level (should the worker have a family of five.) Often they will pay…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Don't Put All Your Limousine Liberals in One Basket

The NY Times is thrilled with the idea of reporters being red carpet walking stars. Much has been written in the news media as of late about the news media and how all of a sudden they've been acting like the news media. Well, color us nostalgic, but it was with great delight that we went to the 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony at the Marriott Marquis on Monday night and…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Stephanopoulos Flunks "Full Disclosure," Fails to Mention His Moonligh

Tim Graham
 

Networks Pump Up Gas Prices

BMI Staff
 

European Commission Realizes Media Propagandize Terrorists

Greg Sheffield
 

Katie Couric and Matt Lauer Blame Hurricanes On Global Warming

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Did ABC Put Restrictions on Jennings Funeral

Matthew Sheffield
 

Post Buries Great News About “Missing” Gulf Coast Children

Some fabulous news was released yesterday concerning all those missing children from the states recently ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.  Mysteriously, the Washington Post buried the story on page A10:“Authorities trying to track down more than 2,600 children in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama still missing three weeks after Hurricane Katrina believe that most of them are not really ‘…
Noel Sheppard