Gannett Furlough: Don't Let Feds Catch You Working

The news that the Gannett Company--the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, flagship USA Today--is forcing thousands of its employees to take unpaid leave is the latest, shocking, evidence of the ill health of the old media. But for present purposes, let's focus on this odd nugget: Gannett has informed its employees that pursuant to federal and state law, they [emphasis added]:must not work…
Mark Finkelstein
 

TIME Takes Swipe at Joe The Plumber (Now Joe The Reporter

TIME magazine got a twofer on a recent screed headlined "Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza?." Not only did TIME use its article to take a few swipes at Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher (known as Joe the Plumber) but it also took the opportunity to once again blame the Jews for everything going on in Gaza. Naturally, TIME's description of Joe the Plumber was more a cut at him than an accurate picture…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Name That Party: He's a Mayor Accused of Soliciting Sex From Child

Mayor Gary Becker of Racine, Wisconsin, received some unwanted attention from the Old Media and the local police today because of his arrest for using a computer to solicit sex from a child. According to the Associated Press, Becker is "tentatively charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, possession of child pornography, exposing a child to harmful…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Bravo Reality Show Contestant Wears Hammer & Sickle Shirt

Brent Baker
 

NBC and YouTube Combine to Censor Olbermann Watch Videos

Stephen Gutowski
 

CNN Anchor Thinks Ann Coulter Has Heart Three Sizes Too Small

'Showbiz Tonight' guests call the author 'rude,' 'out of control,' 'disruptive,' 'outrageous' and the 'worst guest ever.'
Erin Brown
 

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Out Joe the Plumber

We've seen the mainstream media afflicted with Palin Derangement Syndrome.  We've experienced the media in the throes of Bush Derangement Syndrome.  Over at CNN, which modestly styles itself as the most trusted name in news, there's now an outbreak of Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome.Last week CNN Newsroom anchor Kyra Phillips went after Joe.  Today, it was CNN Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez's…
Mike Bates
 

Maddow Falsely Claims Bush Whined He 'Inherited This Recession

Jack Coleman
 

Israeli TV Mocks BBC Coverage of Gaza Hostilities

Americans aren't the only ones that have to fight liberal media bias. Such is true in Israel as well.To drive home the point, "Eretz Nehederet," the top television comedy program in Israel, recently satirized the BBC's depiction of what's going on in Gaza.UPDATE: New video embedded below the fold courtesy NBer cayenne523. Strap your seatbelts tightly, for the following will give you a marvelous…
Noel Sheppard
 

Couric Presses Obama on Effectiveness of Tax Cuts Not Spending

Brent Baker
 

Network Evening Shows Downplay Geithner Tax Evasion as a 'Speed Bump

Tim Graham
 

Early Show: Abstinence Okay for Adults, Doesn’t Work for Teens

Erin R. Brown
 

NBC Fawns Over Hillary Clinton’s 'Mastery' at Senate Hearing

On Wednesday’s Today show, NBC News principals Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and Tom Brokaw all gushed over Hillary Clinton’s testimony in front of a Senate panel for her confirmation as Secretary of State. During an interview of Senator John Kerry, Lauer asked, “Did you see any area, Senator, where she didn’t show, I guess, a complete mastery of the issues?” In the following segment, Vieira and…
Matthew Balan
 

Most Networks Skip Story of Obama's Socialist Global Warming Czar

Fox News on Wednesday continued to be one of the very few media outlets covering the fact that Barack Obama's new "global warming czar" has ties to socialist groups. While all three network morning shows ignored the story, "Fox News Live" host Megyn Kelly interviewed climate change skeptic Senator James Inhofe on the subject. After noting that appointee Carol Browner was a member of the Socialist…
Scott Whitlock