'Nightly News' Praises Gas-Guzzling GM Autos for Chinese Success

Maybe it is because NBC has the broadcast rights for the Summer Olympics being held in China, but big gas-guzzling, greenhouse gas-emitting automobiles made by General Motors are seen as a plus for the communist nation's embrace of capitalism. The August 6 "NBC Nightly News" featured the Chinese people's love of troubled U.S. automaker General Motors (NYSE:GM) - an indicator interpreted as an…
Jeff Poor

NBC Reverses on GM Due to Success in China

Network praises American manufacturer's sales in China, ignores previous criticism of carmaker over global warming.
Jeff Poor

New Media Discovery: WaPo Misidentifies Three As McCain Donors, Apolog

Amanda Carpenter has an interesting little blurb over at Townhall.com where she reports on Townhall's catching the Washington Post misidentifying three donors as McCain contributors when, in reality, these donors did not donate to the McCain campaign at all. It seems some due diligence was dropped at the Washington Post, for sure. Good thing the new media was there to correct the story! In his…
Warner Todd Huston

NYT Explores Strategies for Obama to Win Catholic Votes

The Times downplays the candidate's radical pro-abortion record.
Kristen Fyfe

VP Cheney's Own Words Debunk LAT's Rutten, Suskind Book

Los Angeles Times's Tim Rutten is at it again. In an op-ed in today's paper (Wed. 8/6/08), Rutten buttresses a new book by author Ron Suskind and asserts that "Vice President Dick Cheney and his inner circle long have insisted" that Iraq was directly connected to the September 11 attacks.Rutten's claim is an easy one to debunk. Here's Vice President Cheney in a Meet the Press interview with Tim…
Dave Pierre

Barnicle on Bloggers: 'Many of Them Crazy, With Access to Computers

Be with you in a sec. Gotta finish this bag of Cheetos.  Man, what a mess down here in Mom's basement. Let's see, where were we? Barnicle.  Right. Bloggers. Doesn't think much of us. On this evening's Hardball, decrying the decline of bi-partisanship, Barnicle put much of the blame on the blogosphere.Subbing for Chris Matthews, Barnicle had as his guest historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The jumping…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Lectures McCain for Lowering Tone, Agrees His Hilton Ad 'Stupid

The CBS Evening News on Wednesday night delivered a campaign story that was little more than a recitation of John McCain's supposed misdeeds in lowering the tone of the campaign as reporter Dean Reynolds criticized McCain for spending “three times as long chatting” with a college football team “as he did talking issues to workers at a cabinet-making company,” took at shot at his access to…
Brent Baker

Edwards Scandal Threatens to Overshadow Democratic Convention

P.J. Gladnick

Former NYTer Judith Miller on Media and National Security

NewsBusters readers should remember Judith Miller as the New York Times reporter that was jailed for 85 days in 2005 for refusing to reveal to a federal grand jury information related to the Valerie Plame affair.Having resigned from the Times in November 2005, Miller is now an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. On Monday, she spoke to WOR radio's Steve Malzberg about…
Noel Sheppard

Possible VP Pick Pawlenty: Per Mile Tax Might Replace Gas Tax

Minnesota governor expresses concerns over diminishing revenue and sees tracking travel as possible solution.
Jeff Poor

NBC's Savidge: 'Isn't Obama a Bit of a Liar' on Oil Money

Hat tip bigtimer.Joe Scarborough has estimated that 95% of the elite media will pull the lever for Barack Obama.  Even so, evidence continues to mount that the MSM is beginning to view the Dem candidate with a more discerning eye.  The latest example comes from an unexpected corner, that occupied by NBC correspondent Martin Savidge.  As NewsBusters has reported, on everything from climate change…
Mark Finkelstein

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac: Boondoggle, Bias, Bailout & Billions

It took six years for government sponsored enterprises Fannie and Freddie to cost taxpayers billions.
Dan Gainor

FNC Talks of Edwards Affair & the Media, NYT Double Standards

Brad Wilmouth

CNN, Time Give Traction to Obama's Tire Exaggeration

Journalists use stretched data and low oil estimates in defense of Democratic presidential candidate's air pressure substitute for drilling.
Jeff Poor