NBC, CBS Ignore Barack Obama’s ‘Killing Civilians’ in Afghanista

Of the three morning shows, only ABC’s "Good Morning America" has reported the comment by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that part of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan is made up of "air-raiding villages and killing civilians." Both CBS’s "Early Show" and "Today" on NBC have ignored the August 14 comment. On Friday’s GMA, however, reporter David Wright filed a report on the…
Scott Whitlock
 

Al Gore Encourages Protests to Halt Construction of Coal-fired Power P

Soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore is now encouraging citizens "to engage in peaceful protests to block major new carbon sources" stating that he "‘can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.''' I kid you not. Yet, as amazing as it might seem, these weren't the most absurd statements penned by the New York Times…
Noel Sheppard
 

NYT: Leonardo DiCaprio Trying to Save the World, But No One's Listenin

Clay Waters
 

CBS’s Cynthia Bowers: I Can’t Believe Adjustable Rate Mortgages

Stuart James
 

Reminder: NB Happy Hour Tonight

Tonight we're celebrating the second-year anniversary of NewsBusters. If you're in the DC vicinity, stop by and hoist a few with us over at Pat Troy's in Alexandria, Virginia. It's running roughly 5 to 7pm.Update 21:18. Party's over! It was a great time. Great enough that I think we will have to do this sort of thing more often. Which leads me to this question...
Matthew Sheffield
 

Could Newspapers Adopt 'Total Quality Management

Bill Hobbs
 

Chris Matthews: Bush 'Cyrano de Bergerac to Petraeus

Mike Bates
 

Scarborough Swipes: Fox News All Republicans, Except Colmes 'Kept Loc

Day Deux of the "MSNBC Booed Bush" controversy, and Joe Scarborough was looking to make up ground . . . For those who missed the story, in a burst of candor "Morning Joe" host Scarborough mentioned on yesterday's show that members of the MSNBC newsroom had booed President Bush nearly continuously during the 2003 State of the Union.Today, Scarborough asserted that most of the boo-birds were gone…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Could CBS Havana Bureau Be In the Works

Ken Shepherd
 

Flashback: Liberals Used 'Fairness Doctrine' to 'Chill' Conservative R

Liberal Democrats and their allies on the Left are eager to restore the "Fairness Doctrine," which would empower the FCC to regulate the content of broadcast media, including talk radio. Besides their addiction to government regulation, the Left may be remembering "the good old days" where they used the "Fairness Doctrine" for partisan advantage in the 1960s.Former CBS News President Fred…
Matthew Balan
 

Liberal Blog Finds Scandal In Jenna Bush Engagement

Ken Shepherd
 

Half of Newspaper Articles Contain One or More Errors

A soon to be released study by the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication will report that almost half of the articles published by America's daily newspapers contain one or more factual errors, and that less than two percent end up being corrected. Of course, as Glenn Reynolds wrote of this news, "This research won't surprise many blog-readers." Maybe so, but…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

Possible talking point: Huge turnaround on Wall Street yesterday, Fed cut discount rate this morning, stocks look to explode to the upside today. Is the correction -- which did reach the magic ten percent level yesterday before the turnaround -- over?
NB Staff
 

French Press Agency: Fred Thompson 'Harbors Dark World View

I thought it was those French existentialists who were supposed to be the gloomy ones, morosely sipping their espressos at Left Bank cafés while contemplating the end of everything. But according to Agence France Presse, of all people it's Fred Thompson who wallows in the Slough of Despond.Check out this line that AFP, which has an odd corporate status by which it is partially controlled and…
Mark Finkelstein