NYT Sobs Over Plight of Illegal Immigrants: "Any Sense of Sanctuary

Clay Waters
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption: Media representatives wait for Paris Hilton to arrive at a Los Angeles municipal courthouse Friday, June 8, 2007. They were disappointed because she was driven in using an underground entrance as she arrived.****Closed to further comments
NB Staff
 

NPR's Motto: 'We Really Span The Spectrum Here From Sort of Left to Ve

Tim Graham
 

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Matthew Sheffield
 

ABC’s Cuomo Slams Tancredo For Spreading ‘Scary’ 'Anti-Immigrant

Scott Whitlock
 

Humorous Journal Page Reveals NYT Disdain for Murdoch

So much for objective journalists.From the moment word got out that Rupert Murdoch had offered billions to buyout The Wall Street Journal, the media have cried foul. Journalists and media critics charged that a Murdoch takeover would turn the prestigious business newspaper into a journalistic joke, that the media mogul would page six-ify the Journal.An art director at The New York Times, carried…
Julia A. Seymour
 

The AP Worries for 'Right-Wing' Book Publishers' Future

The AP has given us a piece on how "Right-Wing" book publishers are "worried" over the future success of publishing books on conservatives topics. One cannot help wonder, though, if the "worry" by the so-called "right-wing" publishers is more like the APs glee when you read their piece titled, "Right-Wing Publishers Worry About Future", by Hillel Italie, AP National Writer. The first half of…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Open Thread

Your opportunity to discuss whatever is on your mind...
NB Staff
 

The Pope as Tinhorn Dictator? Time Writers Mock 'Useful Catholic Autho

Tim Graham
 

Director Affleck Casts Literal Bible Believers as 'Neanderthals

What are the odds Ben Affleck would refer to Muslims who believe literally in the Koran as "Neanderthals?" But when it comes to Christians . . . As NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens has noted, Affleck appeared on yesterday evening's edition of Hardball. And while it's true that the actor/director/Dem activist offered a generally innocuous analysis, he did manage to engage in a bit of religious…
Mark Finkelstein
 

USA Today: Did Sandy Berger 'Steal' Secret Docs? We're Debating That S

You know, it seems pretty cut-and-dried to me. Stuffing secret documents down your pants and removing them from a secure room in a federal facility, that constitutes stealing.USA Today's "On Deadline" blog isn't sure, though. (bold/italics are USA Today's):Sandy Berger, the national security adviser under former President Clinton, was disbarred yesterday in the District of Columbia.The…
Ken Shepherd
 

The Battle Between Time’s Joe Klein and the Liberal Blogosphere

Much to his chagrin, Time’s Joe Klein has become a Democrat that liberal bloggers love to hate, thereby making him the Joe Lieberman of journalism.Of course, rightwing bloggers don’t care for him much either, conceivably making Klein more like Rodney Dangerfield.Fortunately for our entertainment pleasure, since Klein isn’t a politician – actually, his frequent disabuses of fact lead one to…
Noel Sheppard
 

Food Stamp Follies Mostly Continue, As Does Old Media's Gullible Cover

Give Food Stamp Challenge organizers in Michigan and New Haven, Connecticut some credit. We'll probably never know whether they figured it out on their own, or perhaps read of other organizers' errors when they were pointed out by syndicated columnist Mona Charen and by yours truly (at NewsBusters here and here; at BizzyBlog here and here). But unlike their comrades in most other cities and…
Tom Blumer
 

CNN's Blitzer Frets 'Hot Air' Global Warming Plan Not Strict Enough

Brad Wilmouth