McCain Senior Adviser Accuses NYT of Being Obama's Advocate

In some of the strongest criticism of the media yet during this campaign, John McCain's senior adviser Steve Schmidt on Monday blasted the New York Times for being an advocate for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.In a scathing attack, Schmidt said the Times had "cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate, in this case John McCain,…
Noel Sheppard

CNBC: McCain Campaign 'Over-the-Top' for Pointing Out NYT Bias

John Harwood portrays McCain strategy as a distraction stemming from 'frustration' on MSNBC's 'Countdown.'
Jeff Poor

'Nightly News:' McCain Cuts Taxes for Rich, Obama for Many

CNBC's Quintanilla gives favorable coverage to the Democratic presidential candidate, claiming McCain 'could make the federal deficit and national debt even worse.'
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

ABC Goes Retro – Trots Out 20 Year Old Anti-Wall Street Flicks Durin

Coverage of the banking crisis is everywhere. Pundits and politicos claim the instability is threatening the financial markets and the overall economy. However, ABC's Sept. 22 "World News with Charles Gibson" used the crisis to take a swipe at the wealthy. "In just six months, five major investment banks have now vanished from the landscape, ending an era of aggressive deal making and…
Jeff Poor

Morning Joe: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Hillary

Hillary Clinton, Queen of Soul? Barack Obama, All-American teenaged girl?  That's precisely the analogy that Joe Scarborough made this morning in trying to explain why many Hillary supporters haven't swung to Obama.  Hillary was a guest on today's Morning Joe, and the interview offered a number of other interesting tidbits:Hillary dodged the question of whether Bill was telling the truth when he…
Mark Finkelstein

'World News' Cites Anti-Corporate Flicks in Banking Report

Segment includes populist angle bashing wealthy lifestyles, quotes 'Bonfire of the Vanities' and 'Wall Street.'
Jeff Poor

NY Times Plays Debate Expectations Game

P.J. Gladnick

NewsBusted

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NB Staff

WaPo Insists: Don't Trust WaPo

Tim Graham

Another 'Non-Obama Voters are Racists' Story

The single most common current explanation for a possible Obama loss posited today by the left is that America is filled with racists. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review political reporter Selena Zito uses this charge to the hilt in a September 21 opinion piece on union members voting McCain. Naturally, the only reason Zito can come up with for this phenomenon is because these McCain supporting union…
Warner Todd Huston

AP Writer Spins on Troopergate; Ignores Obvious Bias in Legislative Pr

Jason Aslinger

Reagan's Rebuke of Carter Missing in Debate Commission's Transcript

Is it an editing error or a dose of political correctness?
Robert Knight

SF Chronicle Glosses Over Reality in Listing for Folsom Street Fair

City's newspaper uses euphemism to sanitize a sadomasochistic, pornographic event.
Kristen Fyfe