Clooney Loves Leftist CBS: Plans New Smothers Brothers Movie

George Clooney just can't get over the glory days when CBS was a powerful disseminator of left-wing propaganda. First, he fictionalized the glories of stone-faced anchorman Edward R. Murrow fighting the red-baiters. Next up is glorifying the Smothers Brothers and their CBS comedy hour and how they "spoke truth to power" with communist musicians like Pete Seeger singing "Waist Deep in the Big…
Tim Graham

Time Magazine Pictures Rupert Murdoch As An Arab Dictator

In the December 19 edition of Time magazine, humor columnist Joel Stein pleased the liberals in his "Year of the Meltdown" review of 2011 by comparing Fox News-owning mogul Rupert Murdoch to murderous despots: "Throughout the year, leaders who for decades had ruthlessly wielded absolute power melted down: Zine al Abedine Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi, Rupert Murdoch." Since it wasn'…
Tim Graham

Post Spins History to Attack Business

Reparations story calls slavery a crime and fails to remind readers that it really wasnt.
Dan Gainor

CBS Attacks Amgen for Not Distributing Drug

Dan Gainor

Why Not Global Warming

Plenty of experts have said theres no evidence global warming caused Katrina, but the media continue to ask the same question.
R. Warren Anderson

Scorn on the Bayou The Political Economics of Katrina

Noel Sheppard

A Flood of Incomplete Insurance Coverage

As the media point out that hurricane victims insurance coverage is lacking, news coverage also lacks some key points.
Amy Menefee

Lou Dobbs Lobbies for Unions to Bring Home the Bacon

CNN bashes big business with union spokesman, ignoring the truth about wages and workers in the Katrina reconstruction.
Charles Simpson

A Tough Pill to Swallow

Post spins new drug study to criticize drugmakers even though thats not what the researcher said.
Dan Gainor

NBC Adds to Storm of Climate Change Stories

Network emphasized controversial new study without even a discouraging word.
Dan Gainor

U.S. vs. Oil Refiners: Are Profits Justified

Washington Post pits motorists against profit-guzzler oil companies.

Times Claims Climate of Secrecy Adds to Medical Costs

Collusion between doctors and manufacturers blamed, but paper leaves out standard realities of the marketplace.
R. Warren Anderson

The Picture of Hype

Networks show exaggerated video of highest gas prices, hyping daily increases but glossing over the recent steady decline.
Amy Menefee and R. Warren Anderson

Times Global Warming Claims Are A Natural Disaster

Magazine doesnt stop at linking hurricanes to climate change -- it dismisses skeptics and warns of abrupt, frightening consequences.
Dan Gainor