Hide the (Bigger) Declines: Audit Bureau's Newspaper Circ Report Redef

How convenient. Via Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry's Audit Bureau of Circulations, in issuing its March 31, 2011 circulation figures, tells us we shouldn't try to compare this year's numbers to last year's: Because of the new and redefined categories of circulation on this FAS-FAX report, ABC recommends not making any direct comparisons of March 2011 data to prior audit periods…
Tom Blumer
May 3rd, 2011 7:28 PM

At WH Request, Newspaper Censors Mildly Negative Sentence About Michel

This White House faced strikingly little press criticism during the 2008 presidential campaign and through most of its first two years in office. So seldom is this White House meaningfully criticized in fact, that even the most mild jab apparently inspires backlash against the press. Just last week it was revealed that a San Francisco Chronicle reporter was booted from the White House press…
Lachlan Markay
May 3rd, 2011 6:17 PM

While Hyping Barack Obama's Killing of bin Laden, Chris Matthews Lashe

On Tuesday's Hardball, while praising President Obama's handling of the killing of Osama bin Laden, MSNBC's Chris Matthews excoriated Dick Cheney as a "sadist." Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman contrasted the Bush/Cheney administration's dropping of bombs in Iraq with Obama's actions. Matthews responded by mocking, "There's a difference between being cold blooded- I think presidents…
Scott Whitlock
May 3rd, 2011 6:12 PM

Joan Rivers Drops F-Bomb on Red Carpet: 'Stop Campaigning' and 'Take C

Joan Rivers dropped the F-bomb on the red carpet at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, saying that President Barack Obama and other politicians should “stop campaigning” and "[t]ake care of the f****** country." “No. I think President Obama should stop campaigning and take care of the country. I think it’s disgusting that everyone two years out is campaigning already.…
Nicholas Ballasy
May 3rd, 2011 5:51 PM

Lefty ProPublica Group Escapes Media Skepticism of Ideological Journal

Among the many ubiquitous recipients of Pulitzer Prizes this year was one organization less famous than the New York Times and the Washington Post. ProPublica, a libber non-profit news outlet, received its second straight Pulitzer, this year's for a less-than-friendly piece on "The Wall Street Money Machine." ProPublica is an investigative journalism venture funded in large part by Herbert…
Lachlan Markay
May 3rd, 2011 5:19 PM

New York Times Brushes Aside Inconvenient Osama Fact: Intelligence Ori

Tuesday’s lead New York Times editorial thumped President Obama on the back for the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden, calling the president “a strong and measured leader.” In contrast, the two mentions of President Bush, who pursued Bin Laden aggressively, were both negative. The editors also tried to shoo away the pesky fact that the tip that led to Osama bin Laden’s killing came from a…
Clay Waters
May 3rd, 2011 5:11 PM

National Security 'Expert' Joy Behar: U.S. Should Have Given Terrorist

America should consider gathering important national security information by giving terrorists book deals, or paying them off, says the liberal Joy Behar. The HLN host offered her bizarre expertise on foreign intelligence Tuesday morning on ABC's The View. "If we use these enhanced techniques, then they [the terrorists] can use them on us," Behar said of "enhanced interrogation techniques,"…
Matt Hadro
May 3rd, 2011 4:45 PM

MSNBC: Indiana Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding = 'Politics' Interfe

During the 11AM ET hour on MSNBC on Tuesday, anchor Thomas Roberts decried Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels voicing support for legislation to de-fund the state chapter of Planned Parenthood as "a move that has many questioning if politics is playing too much of a role in women's health." Turning to Planned Parenthood of Indiana President Betty Cockrum, Roberts declared: "...here's the…
Kyle Drennen
May 3rd, 2011 4:41 PM

Sy Hersh, Abetted by Olbermann, Slandered SEALs That Later Killed Bin

The Navy SEALs who killed bin Laden are being widely hailed as heroes -- in stark contrast to previous descriptions of them from liberals in the media. It was not long ago, over in the wetlands of the left, that these courageous warriors were demeaned as little more than homicidal thugs acting at the behest of war criminal Dick Cheney. Here's how Keith Olbermann, then at MSNBC, described…
Jack Coleman
May 3rd, 2011 4:08 PM

J. Crew Goes Gay Crew

When you’re right, you’re right. Last month, the Culture and Media Institute reported that internet marketing material from preppy clothing maker J. Crew featured a photo of the company’s president painting the toenails of her young son hot pink. "Lucky for me I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink," said the caption. "Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." CMI pointed out…
Matt Philbin
May 3rd, 2011 4:00 PM

'Spirited Atheist' Susan Jacoby Slams 'Mindless' Jubilant Crowds Celeb

Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak may have pulled her punches, calling Sunday night's spontaneous celebrations of bin Laden's demise "almost vulgar," but her colleague Susan Jacoby thoroughly trashed such displays as "mindless" in her "Spirited Atheist" column yesterday at the Post/Newsweek "On Faith" site:
Ken Shepherd
May 3rd, 2011 3:48 PM

CBS Evening News Anchor Chair: One Liberal (Couric) Makes Way for Anot

Today CBS News officially announced that longtime correspondent Scott Pelley will be taking the reins of the CBS Evening News from departing anchor Katie Couric. A review of the MRC's archive reveals Pelley will most likely continue the long tradition of liberal bias advanced by his anchor predecessors Couric, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite.     From celebrating the likes of liberal heroes…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 3rd, 2011 3:45 PM

Michael Moore on Bin Laden Death: We're Done Here, Right

If you had to guess what narcissistic Hollywood leftists would say in the immediate aftermath of Osama Bin Laden's death, what would it be? Would you think about the "mother lode" of intelligence that was to be had from taking down the world's most wanted terrorist? Would you think of all the terrorist plots that have been thwarted since 9/11? Would you think of the national catharsis…
Doug Ernst
May 3rd, 2011 3:01 PM

History Rewrite in NYT's OBL Obit: 'Intelligence Was Never Good Enough

The New York Times's supposedly momentous decision to omit "Mr." from references to Osama bin Laden in its Monday obituary is apparently working to distract critics from the item's other problems. Along with Michael T. Kaufman, Kate Zernike, whose primary vocation seems to be finding racism in the Tea Party movement where none exists and otherwise smearing its participants, comes off as…
Tom Blumer
May 3rd, 2011 2:08 PM