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
 

Time's Joe Klein: Beware 'Bile' of Left Bloggers -- All Bush/Limbaugh

In an interesting slam against the Left-Wing Blogosphere, one time Clinton man, now Time Magazine writer, Joe Klein, hits 'em hard. Left-Wing Bloggers are vile. Left-Wing Bloggers are mean. Left-Wing Bloggers are disloyal. Left-Wing Bloggers jump to wild, unsupported conclusions... So says Klein in a June 6th piece titled "Beware the Bloggers' Bile." But, don't get your hopes up because, while…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Hilton's Slammer Syndrome

Judge does not like Paris in the springtime.
Jan LaRue, Esq.
 

Judges vs. the FCC

The federal judges who ruled against the FCC suggested the agency's rulings were arbitrary and capricious. But is there anything more arbitrary and capricious than an egotistical celebrity dropping the F-bomb on national TV? Or the network refusing to administer a tiny delay?
L. Brent Bozell III
 

ABC Frets Over Demise of 'Landmark' Immigration Deal; NBC Sees 'Extrem

ABC's Charles Gibson fretted Thursday night over the likely impending demise of the “landmark” immigration deal as George Stephanopoulos blamed conservatives and on NBC Chip Reid faulted “extremes on the left and the right.” Gibson teased World News: “Tonight, the landmark compromise on immigration is in big trouble on Capitol Hill. Some Senators saying if we can't pass this, we can't pass…
Brent Baker
 

N.Y. Daily News Labeling Guide? 'Avoid Pro-Life Or Pro-Lifers...Avoid

Tim Graham
 

ABC Won't Tell Who Caused Ecological Disaster

Report has no idea that environmentalists caused millions of tires to be dumped on ocean floor.
Jeff Poor
 

Ben Affleck Pronounces Bush Administration 'One of the Worst in Histor

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Time Magazine: 'Did the U.S. Incite Iran's Crackdown

Ken Shepherd
 

CNN's Paula Zahn Cites NewsBusters' Brent Baker

MRC intern Michael Lanza caught a passing reference on the June 6 "Paula Zahn Now" to a June 5 blog entry by NB editor Brent Baker. (See transcript below the fold)Video (0:35): Real (1.57 MB) or Windows (1.10 MB), plus MP3 (156 kB).In "NBC's Williams Showcases Obama Blaming Bush for Black Despair Going Back to 1991," Baker noted that NBC's June 5 "Nightly News" ran excerpts of an Obama speech…
NB Staff
 

ABC Spins Autocratic Russia: ‘Everybody Is Very Happy with Vladimir

Scott Whitlock
 

G-8 Statement Regarding Climate Change: Will Media Use It to Bash Bush

For those that have been following the G-8 summit in Germany, a formal declaration from the group has just been released (h/t Benny Peiser; section dealing with climate change begins on page 14, emphasis added throughout):Since we met in Gleneagles, science has more clearly demonstrated that climate change is a long term challenge that has the potential to seriously damage our natural environment…
Noel Sheppard
 

Did Facebook Give Obama Inside Edge on New App

Joshua Levy and Micah L. Sifry have a June 4 article at techPresident noting that among the major presidential candidates, only Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has taken advantage of new software on the Facebook social networking site to broaden his Web presence. (Portions in bold are my emphasis):TechPresident’s Alan Rosenblatt took an early look at the new feature and the Obama application, which…
Ken Shepherd