The Media’s Obsession with Recession: Dan Gainor on Fox Biz

Stuart James

CBS Seeking 'Irreverent,' 'Hip' Journalist for Eco-Beat (No Knowledge

Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

 Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign, in the audience at CNN's Republican debate of November 28th, making comments after the airing of his YouTube question on gays in the military.
NB Staff

Public Radio Judges 'Green' Products Guilty of 'Greenwashing

NPR broadcast lays out sins committed by companies with eco-friendly products.
Paul Detrick

CBS ‘Early Show’: Religious Right Turns Left for Hillary

Furthering the media’s love affair with Hillary Clinton, Friday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a segment on her recent speech at Saddleback Church in Southern California and how Evangelical Christians may be moving to the left in 2008. As co-host Harry Smith wondered at the top of the show, "Hillary Clinton addresses an Evangelical megachurch in California. Is it really possible that the Christian…
Kyle Drennen

Kelo Update: Media Ignores Latest New London Development Setback

Tom Blumer

CNN Covers, ‘Big 3' Networks Ignore Murtha ‘Surge is Working’ St

The "Big Three" networks’ morning shows all ignored Representative John Murtha’s "the surge [in Iraq] is working" comments during a recent video conference. On the other hand, CNN’s "American Morning," during its 6 am Eastern hour "Political Ticker" segment, covered the Pennsylvania Congressman’s apparent shift in opinion. Murtha, who became a bit of a media darling for his anti-Iraq war stance,…
Matthew Balan

ABC Reporter Kate Snow Continues to Smile and Spin for Hillary

On Friday's "Good Morning America," reporter Kate Snow continued her habit of happily spinning Hillary Clinton's campaign maneuvering as nothing less than brilliant politics by the presidential candidate. She parroted talking points from the '08 contender's campaign about how smart it would be to target South Carolina voters who frequent hair salons. Sitting in a sylist booth, a smiling Snow…
Scott Whitlock

Economy Grew More than We Knew, but Networks Barely Notice

CBS, NBC do find time to report Bush administration's reduced growth forecast.
Jeff Poor

Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a 'Monkey' on Morning Joe

With embedded video below the fold On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a "monkey" during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China. During the news piece, Burnett said that she couldn't see how anyone couldn't have a "man-crush on that man," in an apparent…
Warner Todd Huston

ChiTrib Blogger Asks if Sudan Teddy Bear Case Sent 'Fair Message' to B

"Should all have been forgiven or does the teacher's sentence send a fair message that foreigners sholud [sic] be more sensitive when it comes to religion?"Thus concludes Manya Brachear's November 29 post to the Chicago Tribune's "The Seeker" religion news blog. Brachear was opening discussion up in her comments thread to the case of British subject Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old private school…
Ken Shepherd

Countries Missing Kyoto Targets, Taxpayers to Foot the Bill

As climate alarmists around the world head to a tropical paradise on Bali next week to discuss how developed nations should pay to solve global warming, an inconvenient truth has emerged: many countries that are part of the Kyoto Protocol are going to dramatically overshoot their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits. While it seems a metaphysical certitude that America's green media will…
Noel Sheppard

'Dead' Iraqis Show at Press Conference Smiling, Waving

Jim Hoft

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Will there be any fallout from CNN's debate debacles, or will they go largely ignored by the mainstream media and get swept under the rug?
NB Staff