ABC Honors Bill Clinton with Interview on 'His Work to Save a Continen

ABC’s Good Morning America interviewed Bill Clinton on Thursday morning, and while he made the news for saying Iraq is hopeless ("There is no military victory here"), the interview was also notable as another opportunity for ABC to honor Clinton as a global statesman and ask him softball questions for almost nine minutes. Co-host Diane Sawyer reported he was in Africa to see Nelson Mandela and do…
Tim Graham

In YouTube Special, CNN Favors Videos Calling For Universal Healthcare

Over the last week CNN has been airing hour-long specials to promote their upcoming YouTube presidential debates. CNN has been asking viewers to submit videos to YouTube.com for a chance to have their questions answered by presidential candidates. Of the videos aired so far, those with a leftist slant have greatly outnumbered those from a conservative viewpoint. Of the videos aired on Monday…
Michael Lanza

Chicago Sun-Times: Romney 'Misleading' in Criticizing Obama's Sex Ed P

Mike Bates

Stelter Bids Farewell to TVNewser.com

Brian Stelter bids farewell to readers of TVNewser.com today. The New York Times recently hired the Towson University graduate as a media reporter and he begins that gig full time on Monday. You may have read his reporting before from our editor's picks or as occasionally excerpted in NewsBusters posts themselves. Stelter has done an excellent job with TVNewser and I'm sure he'll do well at the…
Ken Shepherd

Time Lists eHarmony Among 'Five Worst Websites', Laments It Is Anti-Ga

Ken Shepherd

Is NYT About to Dump TimesSelect

Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

Thank God it's...well, you know...
NB Staff

Colorado Blogger Routs Media and Politicians Pushing the Bogus 'Food S

Colorado journalists and politicians who fell in line and attempted the bogus "Food Stamp Challenge" probably didn't anticipate that a Colorado blogger would call them out, and then call their bluff. But that is exactly what happened. In June, Colorado Freedom Report's Ari Armstrong challenged those in that state's media and political class who swallowed the claim that Food Stamp recipients can't…
Tom Blumer

Claims of Innocence By Accused Priests Missing In Coverage of LA Abuse

Dave Pierre

WashPost Fashionista on Hillary Showing Cleavage: 'No One Wants to See

Washington Post fashion reporter Robin Givhan, usually so kind to the fashionably liberal, can’t muster a thumbs-up on Friday as she discussed Hillary Clinton showing cleavage Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. She set the scene: "The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn't an…
Tim Graham

Rosa Brooks's Dirty-Harry Doctrine: Al Qaeda 'Got Lucky' on

Mark Finkelstein

Mayor Personally Hires Illegals for Village Work, Party Affiliation no

Mayor George Darden, of Spring Valley, New York, is a Democrat who has been caught hiring illegal immigrants to work for his suburban village but you wouldn't know he is a Democrat by the coverage his story is getting. In fact, of the several stories thus far, not one even mentions his Party. But, an even bigger mystery is why this story isn't getting wider notice? On the 17th this story of a…
Warner Todd Huston

Only Couric Notes Plame Setback and Scolding of Hillary; Olbermann Sen

Of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday, only the CBS Evening News reported how a federal judge threw out Valerie Plame's lawsuit and how a Pentagon official berated Senator Hillary Clinton, but anchor Katie Couric quickly moved on to “more positive news” for her in how most believe she will be elected President. Couric relayed how “the Pentagon is lashing out tonight at…
Brent Baker

The New Republic Smears the Troops – With a Hoax

An article written under a pseudonym defames American soldiers in Iraq with dubious, unverifiable stories of cruelty.
David Niedrauer