Where Is CNN's Outrage? Jake Tapper the Only CNN Anchor to Discuss Fox

April 9th, 2013 12:20 PM
A Fox News reporter faces jail time for not giving up her sources in a story on the Aurora shooting, but CNN host Jake Tapper is the only anchor or reporter at the network to mention her plight. Fox News has reported on it, along with various online outlets; the networks have been silent. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough brought it up on Monday's Morning Joe. Tapper made the story part of the "Buried…

An Examination of Why Bill O'Reilly Misses the Point on Same-Sex Marri

April 8th, 2013 6:14 PM
During the highly publicized exchange between Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham on gay marriage, O'Reilly made this statement: "There are Bible thumpers, and all they do is say, 'I object to gay marriage because God objects to it.' You don't win a policy debate in America with that." Really?

Fox News Reporter Faces Jail Time for Maintaining Sources' Secrecy, Ye

April 8th, 2013 12:35 PM
Fox News reporter Jana Winter may serve six months in jail for refusing to disclose to a court two anonymous sources from a story she broke on July 25, 2012, related to alleged Aurora, Colorado theater shooter James Holmes. Mackenzie Weinger of Politico has the details and notes that, at least thus far, it seems only Fox News has shown concern over a journalist being squeezed to break the…

Herman Cain: 'Maybe Chris Matthews Doesn't Have Enough Black Friends T

April 3rd, 2013 4:25 PM
As NewsBusters reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday actually said, “Racism is the belief that one race - whites - should rule all others.” Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain responded to this nonsense on Fox News's Hannity Tuesday stating, "It's laughable what Chris Matthews is saying...Maybe he doesn't have enough black friends who's telling him the truth" (video…

Pat Caddell Blasts Liberal Ailes Biographer for 'Incompetence

April 3rd, 2013 6:46 AM
Since its founding in 1996, the Fox News Channel has been the subject of much media scrutiny. Part of this was inevitable given that its creator, Roger Ailes, explicitly designed it to be different than the rest of the national media outlets which lean to the left. As such, there has been a lot of journalism produced about Fox News. Some of it has been excellent. Much of it has been nonsense…

NewsBusters Interview: Zev Chafets on Fox News Founder Roger Ailes

April 2nd, 2013 3:05 PM
While most people have never heard of Roger Ailes, they have heard of his famous creation, the Fox News Channel. As basically the sole national mainstream news entity which is not operated on a left-of-center paradigm, Fox News has become almost public enemy number-one to the far left. For many of today’s illiberal liberals, the mere existence of Fox News is enough to induce spittle-flecked…

Civil Rights Attorney Calls Ben Carson 'A Puppet of Sean Hannity' - 'Y

April 2nd, 2013 12:56 AM
Civil rights attorney and talk radio host Leo Terrell got into quite a heated exchange with Sean Hannity Monday evening. During a segment about the double standard by which African-American conservatives and liberals are treated by the media, Terrell called Dr. Ben Carson Hannity's "puppet" telling his host, "You created a monster" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Gutfeld Slams Carrey and Biggs: 'America Is Great Because Washed Up Co

March 30th, 2013 11:17 AM
While Jim Carrey was calling gun owners "motherf--kers," Jason Biggs spent Holy Week attacking the Pope. The Five's Greg Gutfeld took them both on Friday marvelously saying, "Our country is great because washed up comics have the right to suck" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Dr. Ben Carson Strikes Back at MSNBC's Toure Neblett: I'm No Uncle Tom

March 26th, 2013 6:01 PM
MSNBC’s Toure Neblett last weekend mocked Dr. Benjamin Carson as a token “black friend” to Republicans admired only to “assuage their guilt” for past racial indiscretions. On Fox News’s America Live Tuesday, Carson struck back at his liberal media critics saying that he’s no “Uncle Tom” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Greg Gutfeld: 'Jim Carrey Is the Most Pathetic Tool on the Face of the

March 26th, 2013 10:10 AM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, actor Jim Carrey released a satirical video at the comedy website Funny or Die which attacked gun owners and the late Charlton Heston with penis size jokes. Later that day, Fox News's Greg Gutfeld and his co-hosts at The Five thoroughly trashed Carrey (video follows with LexisNexis transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

GLAAD Tries to Ban Fox News Journalists from Attending Awards Show

March 22nd, 2013 1:44 PM
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) are fuming because they found out that two Fox News anchors attended the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City on March 16. The GLAAD Media Awards, which are given in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco each year, celebrate “outstanding images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community” in the media. GLAAD…

Ted Turner's Son: CNN Is So Far Left I Mostly Watch Fox

March 20th, 2013 5:36 PM
Republican Teddy Turner, the son of media mogul Ted Turner, made news last month when he blamed his father's liberalism on actress Jane Fonda. He made more news Wednesday on NewsMax TV's Steve Malzberg Show saying that CNN is "pretty much to the left" and that he has such a "hard time watching them" he mostly watches Fox (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional…

Say Again? NY Times Book Critic Faults Fox News for Political Slant

March 20th, 2013 2:32 PM
Pot, kettle: New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani reviewed Tuesday a new biography by Zev Chafets of Fox News president Roger Ailes under the headline, "A Soft-Focus Look at Fox's Tough-Talking Tough Guy." Kakutani faulted the book for relying on familiar stories and, of course, for Fox News's conservatie viewpoint: "There is little cogent analysis in these pages about how Fox News…

Krauthammer: 'Everybody Knows That MSNBC Is All Opinion

March 19th, 2013 9:38 PM
NewsBusters reported Monday that a new Pew Research Center study determined that 85 percent of MSNBC's airtime is commentary or opinion and not straight news. Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said of this on Fox News's O'Reilly Factor Tuesday, "That study tells me that the sun rises in the East: everybody knows that MSNBC is all opinion" (video follows with transcript and commentary):