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Following Abramson's Ouster, Another NYT Alum Concedes Bias: 'One of t
Although NewsBusters has documented The New York Times’s commitment to pushing a liberal agenda for years, it took a discrimination scandal inside the paper itself for the MSNBC network to air a liberal journalist admitting what everyone already knows but liberals are loath to confess: The Times has a left-of-center tilt, despite its dogged persistence in claiming to be objective.
On the May…
May 15th, 2014 6:00 PM
Clarence Page Likens Anti-Hillary Benghazi, Health Criticisms to ‘Bi
There seems to be a concentrated effort on MSNBC lately to dismiss certain legitimate concerns raised by Republican political figures as loony or unworthy of serious consideration. On Wednesday’s edition of PoliticsNation, Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune killed two birds with one stone by simultaneously linking concerns over Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s health to the “birther” conspiracy…
May 15th, 2014 5:13 PM
Networks Nourished Anti-Vaccine Hysteria With 171 Stories on Debunked
Despite the rise in deaths from preventable childhood diseases, the networks spent the last 15 years fueling speculation that vaccines cause autism. Just in the past seven years more than 1,300 died from such diseases, according to CDC data.
The medical community widely refuted such claims and the medical journal that once published the study later retracted it. But for years the broadcast…
May 15th, 2014 4:35 PM
CBS Talks to Bush Relative About Health Care Reform, Doesn't Mention O
During a four-minute interview with Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush on Thursday's CBS This Morning about his new book, Where Does It Hurt?, suggesting reforms to the health care system, none of the hosts bothered to bring up ObamaCare or its failures. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Bush, nephew of former President George H.W. Bush and cousin of former president…
May 15th, 2014 4:35 PM
MSNBC’s Melber Mocks 'Flat Earth' Rubio on Global Warming
One day after Chris Hayes suggested that global warming skepticism should disqualify a person from holding public office, another MSNBC primetime host attempted to ridicule those who doubt the science. This time, it was Ari Melber, who has been guest-hosting The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell for several weeks now. On Wednesday's show, after playing a clip of President Obama mocking skeptics…
May 15th, 2014 4:25 PM
Abramson Firing: Did NY Times Forget to Read Its 90 Pieces on Equal Pa
Is “The Gray Lady” that way because the sexist owners of The New York Times won’t pay her enough for a proper dye job? This and other delightfully schadenfreude-alicious questions are worth pondering now that the paper has “unexpectedly” fired executive editor Jill Abramson on May 14.
Abramson stepped into that role on September 2011, becoming the first female executive edtior at the Times,…
May 15th, 2014 4:03 PM
CNN Hounds Bernie Sanders on VA Scandal: 'You Sound Like a Lawyer Defe
Chris Cuomo sparred with Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday's New Day on CNN over the left-wing politician's scheduled hearing with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki regarding the V.A. hospitals scandal, where scores of veterans died as they waited for care. Cuomo pointed out that "the mandate for Shinseki when he was put in...was that we knew there were big lapses at the V.A. that had…
May 15th, 2014 3:50 PM
AP Blames '(Good) Weather' For April Decline in Industrial Production
It looks like the "weather" excuse the press went to repeatedly to explain weak economic results in December, and January, and February, and March still has life in April. But this time, warm weather (which most of us would find "good," at least in April) is to blame. An early afternoon report (relevant portion saved here in graphic form) on the Dow's 200-point mid-day dip by the Associated…
May 15th, 2014 3:26 PM
Abramson Firing: Did NYTimes Forget To Read Its 90 pieces On Equal Pay
Journalism’s Gray Lady under scrutiny for dismissal of executive editor.
May 15th, 2014 2:57 PM
Bozell: Broadcast Networks 'Allergic to the Truth About the IRS Scanda
Editor's Note: The following is a statement released by Media Research Center president Brent Bozell earlier this afternoon regarding the latest revelations in the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, a development which have been utterly ignored by the Big Three broadcast networks. The full press release is published below the page break and available at MRC.org.
What will it take for ABC, CBS,…
May 15th, 2014 2:48 PM
Eleanor Clift Triples-Down on Claim That Amb. Stevens ‘Was Not Murde
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift is at it again, this time tripling-down on her ridiculous assertion that Ambassador Chris Stevens “was not murdered” in the Benghazi terrorist attack.
Clift penned a May 15 article in The Daily Beast entitled “My Benghazi Scandal” where she proclaimed “I may be under fire from conservatives for saying Ambassador Stevens wasn’t murdered in Benghazi, but I’m not…
May 15th, 2014 1:30 PM
MSNBC Cheers 'Feisty Campus Dissent' Forcing Commencement Speakers to
"Feisty campus dissent is back. And it’s winning," exulted msnbc.com's Aliyah Frumin in her May 15 story, teased on the main page with the header, "Commencement speakers drop like flies." [see screen capture below page break]
"In the last few weeks alone, campaigns at three schools forced commencement speakers to pass up significant speaker fees rather than face angry campuses," Frumin noted…
May 15th, 2014 12:31 PM
Joy Behar on View Reunion: ‘This Is Like the Last Supper With Barbar
Friday, May 16 is Barbara Walters’ last day on The View and all of the former co-hosts returned to say goodbye to the longtime ABC host on Thursday, May 15.
Appearing on a special panel, former co-host Joy Behar proclaimed “This is like the Last Supper with Barbara as Jesus.” [See video below.]
May 15th, 2014 11:58 AM
Chris Matthews Fumes at 'Kamikaze,' 'SOB,' 'Killer Dog' Karl Rove
An agitated Chris Matthews on Wednesday fumed over Karl Rove's recent questioning of Hillary Clinton's medical condition. Throwing all the invective he could at the Republican strategist, Matthews reduced Rove's comments to this: "My theory is he could be almost like a kamikaze pilot in World War II. He could blow up the ship and blow himself up." The host continued, " Who cares if Karl Rove is…
May 15th, 2014 11:58 AM