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Networks Use Bridge Tragedy to Build Support for Higher Taxes
Minnesota disaster brings out media tendency to promote government, though they bash businesses under the same tragic circumstances.
Beat the Press: Google to Allow People Mentioned in News to Respond
An interesting development from Google today. Starting now, the search engine is going to allow people who are mentioned in a news story to respond to it and have their responses posted within Google News (h/t Brian Clark):Here's how the new system will work: people or organizations that are mentioned in news stories can submit comments to the Google News team, which will then display those…
Exercise Causes Global Warming
In the '80s, rock musician Joe Jackson published a song called "Everything Gives You Cancer." Recent assertions by England's Green Party parliamentary candidate Chris Goodall suggest that sometime soon, someone - maybe Al Gore sycophant Sheryl Crow - is going to write a hit song called "Everything Causes Global Warming." As reported by the Times Online Saturday in a piece hysterically titled…
Limbaugh to Read NB Item on Tribune's New Spin on Minnesota Bridge
Radio host Rush Limbaugh will be addressing this blog post in his 2 p.m. monologue.
New Republic Refuses to Retract Beauchamp 'Reports
Despite the fact that the Army has officially denied the veracity of Scott Thomas Beauchamp's "reports" from Iraq, the New Republic continues to stand by its fabricating writer In the New York Times this morning: In an e-mail message, Mr. Foer said, "Thus far, we've been provided no evidence that contradicts our original statement, despite directly asking the military for any such evidence it…
Meet Your News Providers [UPDATED 4/3/2008: Charges Dropped Against Co
Update (April 3, 2008) at bottom of post: Charges dropped against Corral. Statement appended.I'd like to take a break from our usual program of pointing out the absurdity of liberal bias in the press to let you get to know some of the people who provide the news for public consumption. First up is C.P. Smith (pictured), page-one editor for The Orange County Register and husband of LA Times deputy…
'World News' Criticizes 'Dirty' Coal Industry During Search for Trappe
One guest, a left-wing writer, compares environmental advances in coal-burning technology to 'fat-free doughnuts.'
Networks Use Bridge Tragedy to Build Support for Higher Taxes
Journalists blame taxpayers, not government incompetence, for infrastructure problems.
Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coo
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a…