Only Couric Notes Hsu Sentencing, 'Looming Recession' Leads CBS

Of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday, only the CBS Evening News squeezed in a mention of how a California judge sentenced Norman Hsu -- the fugitive donor to many Democrats including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- to three years in prison on a 16-year-old fraud conviction. Unlike ABC and NBC, CBS's Katie Couric didn't lead with the Iowa caucus results, but with “more…
Brent Baker
 

CNN Omits to Mention Presidential Candidate Affiliated With Democrat F

John Stephenson
 

Wacky Pacifica: Huckabee Should've Indicted Clinton As a Murderer

Tim Graham
 

Politico Continues Hatchet-Job on Fred Thompson

Bill Hobbs
 

Weak Job Data Cause Media to Forget the Definition of a Recession

Jeff Poor
 

Planned Parenthood Uses Gay Character to Promote Birth Control, Sort o

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) has unveiled what it calls an “edgy” TV and radio campaign that “focuses on the importance of practicing pregnancy prevention and safer sex.”Except that the words “pregnancy” and “safe sex” are never spoken.  And the pitch man in the “Mile High campaign” is flamingly gay. The TV ad is being run on MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central and TLC, and the radio ad is running…
Kristen Fyfe
 

Malkin to NYT: Quit Fearmongering About Race and the '08 Election

Now that whiter-than-Wonder-bread Iowa has punched Barack Obama a first-class ticket to New Hampshire, can the mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, shut up about whether America is ready for a black president? That's what Michelle Malkin rhetorically asked on her blog before giving readers the answer.Sure they will. Instead, they'll whine about how white Iowa is hardly reflective of…
Ken Shepherd
 

Immigrants, National Guardsman Busted for Trucker License Fraud

Ken Shepherd
 

What If They Held an Election Without the Media

In science, it’s called the “observer effect” — the very act of observing a phenomenon changes the phenomenon. And if journalists are simply supposed to “observe” and report on our presidential elections, they are in fact exerting a tremendous effect over the entire process.For example, imagine two small states, both holding caucuses to pick their delegates to the presidential nominating…
Rich Noyes
 

Weekend Captionfest

 Hillary Clinton concedes defeat in the Iowa caucuses on January 3, 2008 as Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright look on.
NB Staff
 

Open Thread

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NB Staff
 

Leno's Success Prompts Union Writing Controversy

NY Times reports witness heard union rep give Leno permission to proceed with writing 'Tonight Show' monologue.
Jeff Poor
 

CBS ‘Early Show’ on Obama Win: ‘History Has Been Made

At the top of Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith declared: "The votes have been cast and history has been made. Democratic voters in Iowa give African-American Senator Barack Obama a giant victory." Shortly following this "historic" proclamation, Smith also commented: "Barack Obama, the big winner on the Democratic side," and spoke of both the Obama and Huckabee wins in these terms: "…
Kyle Drennen
 

Newsweek Editor: Great Night for Dems, But Huckabee's a Yokel

On the PBS talk show "Charlie Rose" Thursday night, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham declared that Hillary Clinton was right that it was a "great night for Democrats" and a bad night for Republicans. He scoured Mike Huckabee as an embarrassment: "Do you really want to see if a Southern Baptist minister who took two days to find out about the National Intelligence Estimate about Iran is going to be…
Tim Graham