Deadspin Slowly Walks Back Hit Piece On GOP Senate Candidate

On Wednesday night, former Washington Post sports reporter Dave McKenna published a scathing hit piece for the sports website Deadspin, an affiliate of the blog Gawker, in which he claimed that Congressman Cory Gardner (R-CO) lied about playing high school football. With early voting underway in a race that could determine control of the U.S. Senate, McKenna thought he had an angle aimed at…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 16th, 2014 4:01 PM

MRC's Bozell Denounces Media for Ignoring Houston Pulpit Subpoenas

"When the government mandates what a pastor can or cannot say, and criminalizes preaching the Bible, we’re no different than Red China. How in the name of God is that not national news?" -- Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell
NB Staff
October 16th, 2014 3:45 PM

Dennis Miller Zings NBC Doc for Breaking Ebola Quarantine

Radio talk show host Dennis Miller had a few choice zingers for NBC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman after Snyderman was caught breaking a voluntary 21-day quarantine after a member of her crew in Liberia contracted Ebola.
Rich Noyes
October 16th, 2014 3:45 PM

NBC Ignores NY Times Scoop on Chemical Weapons in Iraq

As of Thursday morning, NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the New York Times's front-page article on Wednesday about Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpiles in Iraq, which were discovered by U.S. forces after the Iraq War. NBC was quick to cast doubt on the existence of these WMD's during the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion.
Matthew Balan
October 16th, 2014 3:45 PM

Bozell: Network Censorship of Houston Mayor’s Subpoenas Part of Left

Over the past two days, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have completely censored liberal Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s attempt to subpoena sermons of five pastors critical of the mayor, homosexuality, gender identity, or the city’s new “equal rights” ordinance.
CMI Staff
October 16th, 2014 2:08 PM

Houston Attacks Religious Freedom Of Pastors; Networks Unconcerned

Houston’s attack on the religious liberty of five pastors created a nationwide uproar among conservatives. And not one second of attention from the broadcast news outlets. Fox News broke the story on Tuesday about Houston’s extreme reaction to opponents of a new “nondiscrimination law.” “The law, among other things, would allow men to use the ladies room and vice versa,” according to The…
Dan Gainor
October 16th, 2014 1:22 PM

Weeks Before Election Md. Loses Hundreds of Jobs to Va.; WaPo Ignores

On Monday the Bechtel Corporation announced it was pulling up stakes from Frederick, Md., and moving a "substantial" portion of its Maryland-based jobs across the Potomac to Reston, Virginia. Of course the Washington Post, which on Monday endorsed Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee Anthony Brown, refused to carry the story in its print pages. High taxes and a sluggish economy that is…
Ken Shepherd
October 16th, 2014 1:12 PM

Michael Moore Blames NRA, Other Boogeymen of the Left for Ebola Scare

Radical leftist Michael Moore unsurprisingly picked up where MSNBC's Krystal Ball left off and politicized the ongoing Ebola scare in the U.S. by pointing the finger at the NRA and other regular targets of ire among his ideological fellow travelers. On Thursday, Moore devoted a series of posts on Twitter to an anti-conservative rant about the disease outbreak.

Matthew Balan
October 16th, 2014 11:56 AM

Study: Nets Spend 57X More Time on NFL Scandals Than Obama Scandals

In the crucial weeks leading up to the midterm elections, the broadcast networks were obsessed with scandals, but not any of the Obama administration controversies that might influence how voters behave on Election Day. No, despite revelations in the Benghazi, IRS, Veterans Administration and Secret Service prostitution scandals it was the NFL domestic abuse scandals that captured the attention…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 16th, 2014 11:56 AM

MSNBC Slams GOP Over 'Irresponsible' 'Politics of Fear' on Ebola

After citing numerous Republicans on the campaign trail criticizing the Obama administration's handling of the ebola crisis, on Thursday, MSNBC Daily Rundown host Craig Melvin condemned such criticism as "the politics of fear" and "irresponsible."

Kyle Drennen
October 16th, 2014 11:05 AM

Networks Jump On ‘Fangate’: ‘Awkward Moment That’s Blowing Up Online'

On Thursday morning, all three network morning shows hyped Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott’s refusal to appear on stage for a scheduled debate with his Democratic opponent, former Governor Charlie Crist, due to the appearance of an unapproved fan. Despite the “big three” enthusiastically covering the Republican governor’s “Fangate” episode, the networks have repeatedly refused to cover…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 16th, 2014 10:58 AM

Hey Journalists! 15 Ways NIH And CDC Wasted Taxpayer Money

Amidst the Ebola crisis, the government’s premier health agencies are burning their taxpayer funded budgets on wasteful programs faster than drunken monkeys. Based on a recent $3.2 million NIH study focused exclusively on getting monkeys drunk, that’s an analogy researchers should readily understand. That’s not the story that is getting told by journalists. The National Institutes of Health (NIH…
Joseph Rossell
October 16th, 2014 9:58 AM

PBS Doc To Nicolle Wallace: 'Stick With Netflix' for Ebola 'Hysteria'

At the top of today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski mentioned that no one from any of the several Obama-administration agencies dealing with Ebola was willing to come on to defend the government's bungled handling of the crisis. Not to worry: the show two found super-staunch Obama admin defenders in Dr. Emily Senay, consulting doc for PBS and CBS, and Todd Frankel of the Washington Post.  When…
Mark Finkelstein
October 16th, 2014 9:08 AM

PBS Spurs Sen. Mark Udall to Trash The Denver Post As Un-Feminist

In a Tuesday night segment on Colorado’s Senate race on the PBS NewsHour, anchor Gwen Ifill spurred liberal Sen. Mark Udall to trash the left-leaning Denver Post for endorsing his Republican opponent Cory Gardner for being Johnny One-Note on abortion. Ifill said “Udall shrugs off the hometown rebuke.” He complained: “If the Denver Post doesn’t think women’s reproductive rights are important,…
Tim Graham
October 16th, 2014 8:15 AM