'Experts' Ignore CNBC's Leftward Tilt as Cause for Ratings Drop

Cable business network ratings are down 28 percent versus a year ago, after making an effort to include more liberals like Huffington, Dean.
Jeff Poor

Rx for Bias: Networks' Top Docs Are Heavy Dem Donors

Today NewsBusters' parent organization, the Media Research Center (MRC), revealed that ABC News is not the only network guilty of giving Democratic-donating medical doctors a microphone to "report" on President Barack Obama's government health care proposal. CBS and NBC medical physician correspondents have also chipped in their own cash to Democratic - but never Republican - candidates."ABC,…
NB Staff

Networks Praise 'Clunker' Program, Downplay Critics

ABC, CBS and NBC all say car trade-in scheme is a 'victim of its own success,' after burning through $1 billion in a week.
Julia A. Seymour

'Chief' of Homeless Tent City Romanticized by NY Times Is a Convicted

New York Times "This Land" columnist Dan Barry landed on Friday's front page with his literary, slightly affected profile of a "tent city" for the homeless in Providence, Rhode Island -- and may now wish he hadn't.Because there was something left out of Barry's portrayal of John Freitas, the "chief" of the homeless encampment and a major part of Barry's column.The chief emerges from his tent to…
Clay Waters

Networks Praise 'Clunker' Program, Downplay Critics

BMI Staff

Time's Tumulty Points Readers to Scholar Who Suggests ObamaCare Oppone

In a one-line blog post, "Health Reform: Euthanasia and Other Rumors," Time magazine's Karen Tumulty pointed readers to a blog post at The New Republic's Web site set on "Exposing the Euthanasia Scare" that has cropped up in the debate over health care reform:Harold Pollack dispenses with them (and their sources) here.Tumulty failed to mention the liberal bent of either TNR or Dr. Pollack (Ph.D…
Ken Shepherd

Bozell Column: A Kidnapped 'Fetus

Darlene Haynes was only 23 years old when another woman brutally slashed her open and removed her eight-month-old baby girl from her womb. Her decomposing body was found on July 27, wrapped in a blanket and dumped in a closet inside her apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts. The body was so mutilated that when they found it, the police said they couldn't immediately determine its gender. The…
Brent Bozell

Essay: Dr. Waxman's Enlarged Ego Syndrome

So Democrats don’t like all those ads for prescription drugs on T.V. – the ones for high cholesterol, enlarged prostates, dry eyes and, yes, ED. On C-Span recently, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D., Calif., said “a lot of people start thinking they have medical problems because they’ve seen too many of these commercials. I don’t think that’s doing the public a…
Matt Philbin

Dr. Waxman's Miracle Cure-All & Tonic

More evidence that liberals suffer from enlarged ego syndrome.
Matt Philbin

Wealthy Americans Unholster Their Weapons

While Obama sells socialism, affluent citizens aren't buying.
Dan Kennedy

Tapper: 'DNC Suggests Town Hall Protesters are Fringe Birther Mob

The Democratic National Committee has released a new video to push back against protests happening at town hall meetings across the country, and according to ABC's Jake Tapper, these demonstrators are being depicted as "irrational birthers who want to 'destroy' President Obama."For those unfamiliar with the term, "birthers" are folks that question whether Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen. Tapper…
Noel Sheppard

Technical Note

Considering the huge hit that Noel Sheppard's post about the posters of President Obama as the Joker was, we had to make some major server changes in order to accomodate the massive influx of readers (over 570,000 pageviews as of this writing).Most of the changes haven't affected the site itself, however, there are a couple of bugs which we're still working on fixing. The first one is that you…
Matthew Sheffield

LAT Declares 'White House Rebuts Drudge Report Link' But Neglects to S

WOO! HOO!Your humble correspondent has just beaten Ruslan Chagaev in the ring to become the World Heavyweight Champion! Okay, so maybe Chagaev wasn't even in the ring with me because I was only shadow boxing. However, I can count on  Peter Nicholas  of the Los Angles Times to report my victory despite my lack of an opponent in the ring.That is pretty much how Nicholas reported the "victory" by…
P.J. Gladnick

Exposed: Network TV Docs Give Cash to Dems, Promote ObamaCare on Air

ABC was embarrassed last week by NewsBusters’ exposure of how their new senior medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser of the federal Centers for Disease Control, donated $400 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, presumably an indication of his political sympathies. An ABC News spokeswoman, Cathie Levin, defended Besser to the Associated Press, arguing that he’s a doctor “whose job it is…
Rich Noyes