Peter Orszag: Another Journolist Member With Government Ties? Klein Sa

NewsBusters posts Friday afternoon provided readers with a list of 65 known participants in the now-infamous Journolist (via Melissa Clouthier) and the special case of Jared Bernstein, Vice President Joe Biden's Economic Adviser (via Lachian Markey). (Aside: Does the fact that Biden has his own econ adviser explain why what the Vice President says in public about the economy is so often of sync…
Tom Blumer
July 24th, 2010 1:23 AM

NPR Listeners Loathe 'Fox's Sleazy Reporting' and the GOP 'Propaganda

The producers of NPR's evening newscast All Things Considered deserve credit for reading listener mail on the air, often to make corrections in the broadcast. But there was really nothing but liberals in the mailbag on Thursday, all furious at NPR for not being strong enough in denouncing Fox News and Andrew Breitbart: MICHELE NORRIS: Here's some of what you had to say about our coverage of the…
Tim Graham
July 23rd, 2010 10:33 PM

Stephanie Miller Fantasizes Drunks With Baseball Bats Beating O'Reilly

What is it with liberals and their violent fantasies? The Journolist has given us a public radio producer imagining herself laughing with glee as Rush dies a painful death, while other members want their political enemies thrown through plate-glass windows.This evening brings us "comedian" and liberal radio talk show host Stephanie Miller fantasizing about Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Geraldo…
Mark Finkelstein
July 23rd, 2010 7:33 PM

Anatomy of a Botched Ambush: ABC Fails to Score Global Warming Point o

"It's so hot outside, you could fry an egg ..." or something like that. Perhaps ABC News should have rehearsed their attempted dramatic presentation to promote global warming alarmism before going forward. But instead, they have egg on their face - after failing to fry an egg in the heat, that is. According to a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a producer for ABC News senior…
Jeff Poor
July 23rd, 2010 6:53 PM

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer Worried About Influence of Conservative Media

 For two days in a row on her noontime news hour, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer worried aloud about the White House bowing to the wishes of the conservative media on the Shirley Sherrod case, describing it as "towing to right-wingers.""In some ways, it makes it look like the White House is kowtowing to right-wingers here, Mike," Brewer told MSNBC correspondent Mike Viqueira Wednesday as she was…
Matt Hadro
July 23rd, 2010 6:42 PM

Five for Five: NewsBusters Highlights and Contest Winners

Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post.As we approach our 5th anniversary at NewsBusters, our celebration would not be complete without a recap of our best posts. It was a tough call, but we came up with the top 25, broken down evenly into five categories of five each. We call it our Five-for-Five. Each Friday through August 13 we'll…
NB Staff
July 23rd, 2010 6:19 PM

Ed Schultz: I'm Sorry Beck's Going Blind - It's A Travesty He Won't Se

MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Thursday said he's sorry Fox News's Glenn Beck is going blind because "I think it's a travesty he's not going to see the country he's trying to destroy."As the keynote speaker of the opening festivities of the ultra-liberal gathering known as Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, the "Ed Show" host also bashed President Obama. "They must have a War Room at the White House. I think…
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2010 6:07 PM

CNN Host Calls for Crackdown on 'Bloggers' in Wake of Sherrod Incident

Should there be a "gatekeeper" regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that's what CNN promoted on July 23. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the "mixed blessing of the internet," and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet. "There are so many great things that the internet does…
Alana Goodman
July 23rd, 2010 5:48 PM

Kyra Phillips Asks if Something Needs to be Done 'Legally' about 'Anon

CNN 'Newsroom' looks into internet's effect on culture, Sherrod story and promotes calls for internet 'gatekeeper.'
Alana Goodman
July 23rd, 2010 5:22 PM

CNN's Rick Sanchez: 'I'm Not Ideological;' Spars With Abrams on Sherro

Rick "I play it down the middle" Sanchez didn't disappoint during the first prime-time edition of CNN's Rick's List on Thursday, as he brought his liberal bias against Fox News to the program. When guest Dan Abrams of Mediate accused the anchor of "doing an opinion-based program" on Fox News's coverage of the Shirley Sherrod story, Sanchez denied this and added that he wasn't being ideological […
Matthew Balan
July 23rd, 2010 4:54 PM

JournoList IS a Big Deal: Trying to Control the Message for Liberals

The smarty pants set, breezily dismiss the contents of JournoList, the group made up of hundreds of mainstream journalists, bloggers, activists and Democrat policy wonks. The reasoning goes this way: how is it shocking that a bunch of like-minded people want to get together and chat? I mean, that’s just human. They’re young and liberal and brash, who cares? Except, in this case, these people…
Melissa Clouthier
July 23rd, 2010 4:40 PM

ABC, NBC Morning Shows Report Rep. Rangel's Charges; CBS's Early Show

Both ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today Show" devoted segments to reporting the ethics charges Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) now faces. The recently-deposed head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee faces ethics charges detailed in reports following a two-year committee investigation of the embattled congressman.CBS's "Early Show" did not report on the charges the…
Matt Hadro
July 23rd, 2010 3:35 PM

On NBC, Leftist Rails: Are We Gonna Be 'Bullied' by 'Right Wing Media

NBC's Matt Lauer brought on two liberals, former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, publisher and editor of the leftist The Nation magazine, on Friday's Today show, to dissect the Shirley Sherrod "saga" as viewers were treated to an attack on the "right wing media which peddles fears and slanders." In a segment titled "Race In America, Lessons Learned From The…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 23rd, 2010 2:40 PM

Ann Coulter Rips Into CBS For False Reporting on Tea Parties

Appearing on Friday's CBS Early Show to discuss the Shirley Sherrod controversy, Ann Coulter pointed out the network's own faulty reporting on tea partiers protesting the passage of ObamaCare: "CBS News itself has reported that John Lewis was called the 'N' word 15 times. That is a lie, that is a despicable lie, that never happened. Why doesn't CBS News apologize for that?" [Audio available here…
Kyle Drennen
July 23rd, 2010 1:25 PM