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Thursday evening, NB's Ken Shepherd accurately pointed out how little establishment press interest there has been in prominently carrying an Associated Press report about how the Obama administration has been, in the words of the wire service's Dina Cappiello, "downplaying scientific findings, misrepresenting data and most recently misconstruing the opinions of experts it solicited." This is…

There's little debate in America that with baby boomers retiring, Social Security and Medicare are on a collision course with bankruptcy. Regardless of this inconvenient truth, powerful media figures like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman stand in the way of any meaningful reform to these programs that might lead to their long-term viability. Krugman proved that once again in his…

New York Times political statistician and blogger Nate Silver has put together a handy reference chart for potential 2012 GOP presidential nominees. Check out the chart below the fold, and click over to Silver's post for more.

Here's one obvious demonstration of what happens when liberals gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco: prominent, gruesome warnings of death on boxes of cigarettes. Apparently, mere text saying smoking can be fatal isn't enough “telling truth to power.” New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris celebrated this development on the front page of the Times Thursday. The…

Comedian Jon Stewart on Thursday scolded Rachel Maddow for using the word "teabagger" to describe members of the Tea Party movement. Appearing on "The Rachel Maddow Show" for an oftentimes quite interesting interview, Stewart also criticized others on MSNBC for taking this vulgar joke way too far (video follows with transcript  and commentary):

Souvenir shop products could indicate problems with Obama's approach to the peace process.

On Thursday's Today, NBC host Matt Lauer played an interview he taped with rapper Kanye West about his charge that President Bush didn't “care about black people.” Lauer began by implying strongly that Bush is strange to pick this out as his presidency's worst moments, when Bush was responsible for so many: “He was a two-term president who ran the country during Katrina, 9/11, wars in Iraq and…

Tax specialist Rial Moulton tells CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' investors will pull money out of markets to avoid taxation hit.

In the promo fluff for its future flop, CNN calls Kathleen Parker a "conservative" commentator. So what's a "conservative" in CNN's book?  Someone who, when accused of taking part in the media "assassination" of Sarah Palin, brags that she didn't merely take part—she "led it." Supposed conservative Kathleen Parker made her bizarre boast on this evening's Parker Spitzer. It came in…

Not to worry, Baghdad Bob, MSNBC's got your back. Criticizing former president George W. Bush's newly released memoir, "Decision Points," Maddow said this on her cable show Monday night (video below page break)  --

As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Keith Olbermann's return performance ratings bounce was less than spectacular at a 35 percent increase over his pre-suspension show. In his second night back, the "Countdown" host lost almost 40 percent of this gain:

But only one of three evening news broadcasts report aggregate tax increase.

During the Bush administration, the media made much of political appointees supposedly editing and otherwise interfering with the integrity of the work of career federal government scientists, particularly on studies pertaining to global warming/climate change. Well now the Associated Press is reporting that an inspector general's report from the Interior Department released yesterday found…

"Think of a caged rat, a cornered rat. What does a cornered rat do? It instinctively goes for the jugular. That's where the media are going right now," following the November 2 elections, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Ernest Istook in a radio interview. The  Media Research Center founder appeared by telephone on the November 11 edition of Bill Bennett's Morning in America, where…