How the Housing Report Changed From Initial E-Mail to Spun Story

Here's what a CNN e-mail I received said when the news was first released: Here's how the headline at the home page turned out mid-morning:
Tom Blumer
 

Market Approach to Kidney Transplant ‘Troubling’ and ‘Radical

If you can buy sperm or eggs, why are kidneys so radical to ABC? And what happens to the people who are dying if we don't change the system? ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" called a doctor's market driven approach to organ donation, in which individuals could sell kidneys to insurers, "radical" November 19."Now an outspoken doctor is proposing a radical solution, allow donors to sell one…
Paul Detrick
 

CBSNews.com Employs Scary Graphic to Tease Gun Ban Court Story

Teasing a story about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear an appeal concerning the Washington, D.C. handgun gun and whether it violates the 2nd Amendment's protection of an individual's right to keep and bear arms, CBSNews.com employed an ominous-looking graphic on its home page.Pictured at right is the CBS/AP graphic showing in the foreground a right hand grasping a handgun, with an outline of…
Ken Shepherd
 

Less Regulated Approach to Kidney Transplant 'Troubling' and 'Radical

As the system now stands, individuals have little control over organ donations and transplants.
Paul Detrick
 

CNBC Expert Warns of $150-200 Barrel Oil

Imagine seeing this prediction on your television screen: "Oil will hit $150 or $200 during this commodity bull market." Makes you want to stockpile oil while it is priced at $98 a barrel, but such was the case on CNBC today. Credit Billionaire Jim Rogers, described as a commodities guru and a founding partner with the infamous George Soros of the Quantum Fund in 1970. He told Maria Bartiromo…
Jeff Poor
 

ABC Exaggerates Thanksgiving Costs to Show Traditional Feast Will Gobb

Cost of a typical Thanksgiving dinner still a bargain, some say, and when adjusted for inflation, costs are actually down.
Jeff Poor
 

Say NBC: Is Iraq Still In 'Civil War

As the first anniversary of its grand declaration fast approaches, does NBC continue to believe that Iraq is in a state of civil war? Readers will recall that as we described here, Matt Lauer opened the Today show on November 27th, 2006 with these words:Good morning. Civil war. A bloody weekend of sectarian clashes in Iraq and no sign it's letting up.A bit later, Lauer portentously declared: For…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS ‘Early Show’ Celebrates the ‘Dixie Chicks of Bridge

Apparently bridge has officially become edgy and provocative. I must not have gotten the memo.On Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Hannah Storm interviewed a championship bridge team that held up a sign that read "We didn’t vote for Bush," at the World Bridge Championship in China last month. As a result of this dissent, many in the mainstream media have dubbed the women the "Dixie Chicks of…
Kyle Drennen
 

Guns in D.C. 'Divisive' According to AP

Those who believe in the civil right that the Second Amendment was created to protect were not surprised when the Supreme Court decided today to hear a case that challenges the District of Columbia's draconian gun laws, which are arguably the toughest in the nation.The AP story on the decision correctly notes that the case "could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional…
Matthew Vadum
 

Time Rejected Hiring Karl Rove, Saw Him as Unindicted Felon

Radar Online reported Tuesday that before being signed as a contributor by Newsweek magazine, Rove was first shopped to Time, but that didn’t happen because "They think Karl is essentially an unindicted coconspirator in a whole string of felonies." Wow, what a liberal smell Time puts out. For older media-watchers, this recalls the Washington bureau of Time sitting around on C-SPAN on the verge of…
Tim Graham
 

NYT Bows to Reality: 'Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves

Clay Waters
 

Former ABC Newsman Bob Zelnick Reviewed MRC Book 'Whitewash

Long-time ABC News reporter Bob Zelnick provided a review of the MRC book Whitewash to CNSNews.com on Tuesday. While he found the evidence of a pro-Hillary bias (especially among female reporters) "convincing," he also suggested that the Clinton scandals in general have been a disappointing harvest for prosecutors and investigative journalists, and the pursuit of Bill Clinton’s adulteries a…
NB Staff
 

Times-Picayune Buries Dartez Defeat - No Mention of 'Buckwheat' Slur

On Saturday, State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez (D-La.) lost her re-election bid to Republican challenger Joe Harrison in a heated and controversial run-off. Yet the largest newspaper in Louisiana, The Times-Picayune (TP), chose to bury it as an afterthought in its coverage of the statewide election results. The Times-Picayune online edition, NOLA.com, placed this paragraph at the end…
Vivian Lee
 

CBS’s Storm: 'Why Even Buy Toys' for Christmas

Continuing the sky-is-falling mantra about lead laden toys, on Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Hannah Storm asked Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) spokeswoman, Julie Vallese:...you are standing there, Julie, among a whole group of toys, 61 recalls, a third of those because of lead paint. Why don't you tell us as parents, why we just shouldn't buy books and clothes and pets this…
Kyle Drennen