‘Animal House’ Goes Jihad: Should National Lampoon Make ’72 Virg

Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

For general chat and discussion...
NB Staff
 

Responding to Bloggers, Mika Offers Empty Apology for Insulting Rosie

UPDATE 6-20; Joe cites NewsBusters: At 6:07 am EDT on June 20, Joe Scarborough cited NewsBusters as the blog that had criticized Mika Brzezinski as a snob for her comments about Rosie. He added that yesterday the blog had called Mika on her "half-a--ed" apology.View video here of Joe discussing NB's criticism of Mika.Yesterday, in Mika's Snobby Sneer, we reported on the elitist swipe that Mika…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Rockers in Rolling Stone Hail the Goracle, Trash Rise of 'Idiots' to

Tim Graham
 

Breaking the Grip of Poverty by Changing Irresponsible Habits

AP cites a critic of NYC's behavior-based anti-poverty experiment but no supporters, though evidence shows these programs really work.
David Niedrauer
 

City of Brotherly Love Hates the Boy Scouts

Sexual immorality is now the moral high ground in Philadelphia, and the Boy Scouts are the bad guys. Does anyone with clout in Philadelphia see why this is monstrously wrong?
Robert Knight
 

Senior Network Reporter Warned Gore Not to Concede in

Brad Wilmouth
 

Syrian Media More Accurately Reported Sheehan’s Antiwar Movement Exi

For those that don’t think our enemies are watching the activities surrounding America’s antiwar movement, just consider that several Syrian media outlets reported Cindy Sheehan’s resignation as peace activist last month.Yet, maybe more surprising, these same outlets chose to also report Sheehan’s departure from the Democrat Party, a revelation that few media in America chose to share with the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Newsweek Recycled Organic Food Myths in Promo Piece

Part of a regular web-only health-centric column, "Tip of the Week," Newsweek ran a June 14 piece written by Ruth Olsen, called “How to shop for organic foods without breaking your budget,” that hit many of the usual myths and wishful thinking about organic foods, such as, organic foods taste better than conventional foods (which are labeled “nonorganic” in the article, implying they deviate from…
Lynn Davidson
 

USA Today Founder Al Neuharth: Limbaugh 'Idiotic,' Bloggers Full of 'S

In a Q & A with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper published Monday, USA Today founder Al Neuharth described Rush Limbaugh's radio show as “one of the funniest programs on the air” and asserted: “I don't become offended by the idiotic things he says; I become amused by them.” Neuharth, however, conceded Limbaugh is entitled to his supposed idiocy: “I also think that from my…
Brent Baker
 

Dan Rather in the Bush Building? Katie Couric As Beaver's Mom

Tim Graham
 

Media Prescribe Radical Expansion of Health Care

Julia A. Seymour
 

ABC News Promotes Radical Expansion of Government Entitlement

'World News' makes the case for an aggressive expansion of SCHIP with exploitation of family hardships.
Jeff Poor
 

He's No Tony Snow; Ex-ABCer Geoff Morrell Tapped as Pentagon Spokesman

The Politico reports that former ABC News reporter Geoff Morrell is going to be named the new spokesman for the Pentagon. The Politico’s Mike Allen reports that the idea of picking a working journalist like Morrell was that of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “in an effort to improve press relations at a time when the administration is under pressure to show progress in Iraq.”Back in 1993, the…
Rich Noyes