AP U.S. Reporters Withholding Their Bylines, Not Their Bias

Most readers here aren't aware that Associated Press reporters began withholding their bylines this week in support of their union's "quality journalism proposals." Participating reporters are refusing to have their name placed on AP stories. It appears to apply to stories datelined in the U.S. and not overseas (as seen here). It is truly a wonder that the world has gone on while AP reporters…
Tom Blumer
March 18th, 2011 5:03 PM

Joe Klein Hails Obama's Followership on Libya Crisis

Leading the free world is highly overrated and so last century. Just ask Time's Joe Klein, who is giddy that our European allies and the Arab League took a leading role in setting up a no-fly zone over Libya, some 31 days after Muammar al-Qadhafi started opening fire upon ragtag rebels. From a March 18 entry entitled "Gaddafi Duck" at the magazine's Swampland blog:
Ken Shepherd
March 18th, 2011 3:43 PM

Revolving Door Keeps Spinning: WaPo Dem Booster Shailagh Murray Leaves

After penning a number of stories toeing the Democratic line on a variety of issues, Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray decided to make it official: the Post announced Friday that she has taken a job in the office of Vice President Joe Biden. Murray marks the 18th journalist to move from a reporting position to a post in Democratic politics or vice versa since President Obama took…
Lachlan Markay
March 18th, 2011 3:41 PM

NPR's Mara Liasson Omits Critics of 'Comprehensive' Immigration Reform

On Friday's Morning Edition, NPR's Mara Liasson conspicuously excluded conservatives who are opposed to "comprehensive" immigration reform proposals, such as those forwarded by former President George W. Bush, during a report on Utah's new and "milder" immigration law. Liasson emphasized the state's "conservative politics," but couldn't find any conservatives who opposed the law. Host Renee…
Matthew Balan
March 18th, 2011 1:54 PM

Krugman Completely Misrepresents Herbert Hoover as Well as British Eco

It really is amazing that anybody takes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman seriously. Consider the following factual misrepresentations in what he wrote Friday:
Noel Sheppard
March 18th, 2011 1:34 PM

NYT's Digital Firewall Goes Up March 28: Who Will Pay to Read the Time

On Friday the New York Times broke its near-silence on its new digital subscription plan with a front-page story by media reporter Jeremy Peters. As of Monday, March 28, visitors to nytimes.com can read 20 stories a month for free. After that, readers get several pay options, one being a $15-a-month fee for full web access. Print subscribers are unaffected. Peters encapsulated the concerns…
Clay Waters
March 18th, 2011 1:27 PM

NYT's Michael Shear: GOP Fight to Cut NPR a Mere 'Distraction' Over 'T

On Thursday the House voted 228-192 to end direct federal funding of NPR, but “Caucus” correspondent Michael Shear on Friday morning dismissed the move as a “distraction” in “NPR Vote One of Many Distractions to Come.” The vote by House Republicans Thursday to strip National Public Radio of much of its federal funding is an early example of the ways in which narrow issues are likely to…
Clay Waters
March 18th, 2011 1:03 PM

'Big Fan' Jake Tapper Offers One-Sided Puff Piece on Vulgar Mormon-Moc

According to Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, reporter Jake Tapper is a "big fan" of South Park. His affection showed on Friday as he interviewed the program's creators, the duo behind a vulgar Broadway play mocking Mormons. At no time during the segment on The Book of Mormon did Tapper feature any on-camera criticism of Parker and Stone. (He simply read a statement at the end of the…
Scott Whitlock
March 18th, 2011 1:01 PM

Blue Over Green Energy Promises

The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to "clean" energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies. It would be bad enough if President Obama and his Democratic allies were…
David Limbaugh
March 18th, 2011 12:10 PM

US Public Schools: Progressive Indoctrination Camps (Part

Last week, my main point was that liberals couldn't care less about changing anything in public schools because they are producing exactly what liberals want. And that biased programming will deepen in the minds and hearts of America's young people unless we patriots stand up in every community, resist those progressive tides and demand alternatives. There are ways to improve national…
Chuck Norris
March 18th, 2011 11:49 AM

CBS Finally Covers NPR Scandal...On 4 A.M. News Program

Following the March 8 release of an undercover sting video of NPR executive Ron Schiller calling Tea Party members "racist," CBS initially gave no coverage to the ensuing scandal and resignations of him and NPR President Vivian Schiller. However, it turns out that the controversy was covered by a CBS News broadcast, the barely-watched 4 A.M. Morning News. On Thursday's CBS Evening News,…
Kyle Drennen
March 18th, 2011 11:18 AM

Media Mash with Brent Bozell: Japan Tsunami Edition

The liberally-biased mainstream media didn't let a catastrophe go to waste, using the Japanese tsunami as an opportunity to suggest, falsely, that Republicans would like to cut the budget for NOAA in such a way that would threaten the Pacific tsunami warning system. NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told the audience of last night's "Hannity":  
NB Staff
March 18th, 2011 10:53 AM

Helen Thomas: 'Israelis Want to Take Palestinian Homes and Land and Wa

If you thought Helen Thomas telling Jews to get the hell out of Palestine was anti-Semitic, you ain't seen nothing yet. The disgraced former White House correspondent is Playboy magazine's interviewee in April, and some of the hate-filled nonsense she spewed to her Jewish interviewer should shame those responsible for ever putting this woman in such a powerful press position:
Noel Sheppard
March 18th, 2011 10:33 AM

Japan Will Be Back

In my lifetime I can’t remember an earthquake that caused as much damage as the recent one in Japan. The earthquake alone would have been devastating but it was exponentially exacerbated by a tsunami that looked like a scene straight out of an “end of the world” science fiction movie.
Charlie Daniels
March 18th, 2011 10:08 AM