Bozell, Other Conservative Leaders to Hold Teleconference Asking Comed

NewsBusters Publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and five other members of the Citizens Against Religious Bigotry (CARB) coalition will hold a tele-news conference tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EDT to ask advertisers on Viacom's Comedy Central to publicly pledge to not support/underwrite a show currently in pre-production.  The show is entitled "JC" - as in Jesus Christ. [More…
NB Staff
June 2nd, 2010 3:08 PM

ABC's Claire Shipman Mourns: Does Gore Divorce Mean 'Storybook Endings

Good Morning America's Claire Shipman on Wednesday continued to tout the "storybook" nature of Al and Tipper Gore's failed marriage, reminiscing, "Al and Tipper. Tipper and Al. Their very togetherness, always part of the appeal." Recounting the news of their separation after 40 years, the journalist seemed to wonder if any marriage could survive: "Of course, storybook endings aren't easy to come…
Scott Whitlock
June 2nd, 2010 3:06 PM

On CBS, Sally Quinn Says Gore Split Means 'Everyone' Feels Like Their

After blaming the 2000 election for the breakup of the Gore marriage on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, Sally Quinn of The Washington Post returned to CBS Wednesday morning for an interview with The Early Show, where she repeated the blame-Bush line, in a milder way: "You know one of the hard things is when you lose, this was their home. You can’t live here anymore." But mostly, Quinn suggested that…
Tim Graham
June 2nd, 2010 3:00 PM

PBS Ombud Slaps Tavis Smiley's Wrist Over 'Christian Terrorism' Commen

PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler on Tueday addressed Tavis Smiley's claim that Christian terrorists commit far more violence than Muslim ones. Smiley also issued a statement that defended his comments, though it misrepresented what those comments actually were. "I don't think he made his case, or even came close," Getler said. He rightfully noted that the 2000 Columbine massacre, Smiley's only…
Lachlan Markay
June 2nd, 2010 2:03 PM

LA Times Gives Free Press to Artists Against Ariz. Law

The Los Angeles Times gave free press to artists who are against the Arizona immigration law on June 2. In “Arizona Law Spurs Backlash Among Artists,” author Reed Johnson documented what lefty artists are doing to help overturn the law, without presenting a single quote dissenting from the liberal artists’ positions.Johnson inaccurately characterized the public as “deeply deeply divided over the…
Sarah Knoploh
June 2nd, 2010 1:24 PM

Newsweek's Adler: 'U.S. Has Killed Another Terrorist, But There Are Mo

Leave it to the liberals at Newsweek to find a way to whine when another terrorist gets his just deserts."Does Killing Terrorists Actually Prevent Terrorism?" Ben Adler's June 1 The Gaggle blog headline asked. With the death of al Qaeda's #3 leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid aka Sheik Saeed al-Masri, "[t]he U.S. has killed another terrorist, but there are more terrorist plots than ever," lamented the…
Ken Shepherd
June 2nd, 2010 1:19 PM

Behar Defends McGinniss's 'Nazi' Attack on Palin, Palinites Are 'Very

On Wednesday’s The View on ABC, co-host Joy Behar defended author Joe McGinniss’s decision to purchase a home right next door to Sarah Palin as he plans to write an unauthorized biography of her, and his recent comments on NBC's Today show comparing her criticism of him to the behavior of Nazi troopers of the Third Reich. Behar found no agreement from the other co-hosts, and faced stiff…
Brad Wilmouth
June 2nd, 2010 1:12 PM

Historically Unaccountable Old Media Complains of Unaccountable New Me

It seems that the vast majority of journalists who bemoan unaccountable, unabashedly opinionated digital reporting are the same ones who have, without challenge, pushed a liberal perspective through their own reporting.The latest such journalist, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, is concerned that "nobody is cross-examining" the "position papers" that supposedly comprise a critical mass of new media…
Lachlan Markay
June 2nd, 2010 12:16 PM

Woman Living 'Life Without Plastic' Is Latest Environmental Media Darl

'No Plastic Girl' joins 'No Impact Man,' 'Compost Man' as media's green superheroes.
Kyle Gillis
June 2nd, 2010 11:54 AM

Name That Party: Tax-Funded Scholarships Edition

Mike Bates
June 2nd, 2010 10:54 AM

CBS Finds ‘Even [Israel’s] Friends Question’ Blockade of Gaza, I

While the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC have all failed to remind viewers that Israel allows regular aid shipments into Gaza over land from its side of the border, on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News correspondent Richard Roth highlighted complaints about the effect of the blockade on Gaza residents, used a soundbite of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to argue that "even [Israel’s] friends…
Brad Wilmouth
June 2nd, 2010 10:35 AM

Open Thread: The SEIU's Sketchy Finances

NB Staff
June 2nd, 2010 9:53 AM

FNC Notes Gaza-Bound Flotilla’s Links to Terrorists, Mob Chanted

On Tuesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, FNC correspondent Dana Lewis filed a report in which he noted some of those on board the Gaza-bound ships that were boarded by Israel were from a Yemeni group that has "murky links to al-Qaeda," and others from an extreme group in Turkey believed by Israelis to have terrorist links: "But among the hundreds, these three parliamentarians from Yemen's…
Brad Wilmouth
June 2nd, 2010 9:02 AM

Time's Halperin Warns of Far Right Costing GOP, But Channels His 'Inne

Tim Graham
June 2nd, 2010 7:43 AM