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Is the FTC's Attempt to 'Reinvent' Journalism Backward-Looking
The Federal Trade Commission's attempt to noodle the "reinvention" of journalism sounds to many conservatives like "The Great Newspaper Bailout" -- just as Dan Gainor and Catherine Maggio wrote for the Business and Media Institute last fall. Here's Dan's latest update. Laurence Jarvik, an author of several fine books on public broadcasting like "PBS: Behind the Screen" (and a friend), shared the…
AP Reporter Reveals His Own Values in Treatment of Kagan Documents
The Associated Press's Mark Sherman didn't try very hard to mask his true feelings on a couple of matters on which Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was working on during the late 1990s. The dictionary from which Sherman is working must have interesting definitions of "unsentimental" and "compassionate." See for yourself in the first four paragraphs of the AP writer's report on what is…
Cosmopolitan Writer: John Edwards Rendered Helpless by Four 'Magic' Wo
"You are so hot."According to Cosmopolitan Magazine writer Korin Miller those are the four "magic" words that caused John Edwards to toss away his marriage, family, and political career. Could he have simply ignored Rielle Hunter when she uttered those words to him? Such a thing would have been next to impossible...or so Miller claims in her article:Former senator John Edwards is obviously…
Predictable: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Blames Bush for Israeli Flotilla T
Obviously, blaming former President George W. Bush is en vogue - for everything from the BP oil spill to the current economic malaise. But some things that are going wrong in the world - it just seems to be a bit of a stretch to pin on a former administration. But that didn't stop CNN's Fareed Zakaria, also the editor of Newsweek International. On his June 6 show "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Zakaria…
Huffington on ABC’s This Week: ‘Absolutely a Thousand Percent Bush
“Sooner or later, we’ll blame this on George W. Bush,” George Will presciently predicted on Sunday’s Week during the roundtable’s look as how President Barack Obama is handling the gulf oil leak. Seconds later, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington didn’t let Will down, declaring “the truth is, that right now we have precisely the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney administration wanted.…
CBS Chief Legal Correspondent Annoyed White House Trying to Conceal Ka
This is probably what a lot of people suspected, but couldn't tie it all of it together until documents and memos from President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan were made available to the public - that she is beyond a shadow of a doubt liberal. Still, the White House has insisted Kagan's judicial philosophy doesn't line up ideologically - that she is neither liberal nor…
Long List of Liberal Eruptions from Media's Mount St. Helen
Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas has issued a statement of “deep regret” after telling an interviewer that Israeli Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany and Poland.Thomas has been widely admired by the liberal establishment in the media. NBC’s Ann Curry, for example, last year saluted Thomas as “a woman who inspired me....I’ve tried to emulate her.”…
Media Find Recruiting Pool in Liberal Blogosphere
The amateur liberal blogosphere is dead, according to a prominent lefty blogger. Chris Bowers made his proclamation Thursday, on the heels of the New York Times's acquisition of FiveThirtyEight, a prominent liberal polling site run by Nate Silver.Silver, pictured right, was the latest in a string of moves from the liberal blogosphere to traditional media outlets. The Washington Post has, with…
Commemorating D-Day June
As is our tradition at NewsBusters, we are commemorating the 66th anniversary of D-Day. I have found a number of really great videos that I hope properly capture the spirit of the occasion.First up, this one was supposedly created by an eighth-grader for a history project. Really fabulous.Next up, actual live footage of the invasion courtesy The History Channel. As no film out of Hollywood has…
AP Changes Clinton-Era History To Call Elena Kagan Pragmatic
The Associated Press apparently thinks its readers are either too young or too stupid to remember something that happened thirteen years ago.On Friday, the Clinton Presidential Library released formerly private documents from the '90s that revolved around Elena Kagan's stint as an advisor to President Clinton. Of particular interest was her encouraging Clinton to veto a ban on partial birth…
Golodryga: Palin 'Of All People' Comes To Nikki Haley's Defense
How does an MSMer imply there's something to the allegations of adultery made against Nikki Haley, a Tea Party fave running for the GOP nomination for governor of South Carolina? Express shock that family-values champion Sarah Palin would come to Haley's defense.That was precisely Bianna Golodryga's gambit this morning. Here's how the co-host of the Good Morning America weekend edition teased…