Networks Avoid Scandal-Plagued Democratic Senator Dropping Election Bi

August 8th, 2014 11:45 AM

Despite a combined eight available hours of programming on Friday, all three network morning shows avoided the news that a scandal-plagued Democratic senator from Montana dropped a reelection bid. This move leaves the seat as a likely Republican takeover in the 2014 midterms. But viewers wouldn't know that on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning.   John Walsh left the…

No Cease-Fire on Anti-Israel Attacks From the NY Times, Which Claims D

August 7th, 2014 7:01 AM
As a ceasefire takes hold in Israel, a review of the most recent New York Times coverage of the conflict shows old anti-Israel patterns die hard, with the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief bizarrely suggesting that "in Israel, open discourse and dissent appear to be among the casualties of the monthlong war in Gaza." No mention was made of the violent threats made by the Hamas dictatorship against…

Unintentionally Amusing Line in NY Times Story on RFK Jr.-Cheryl Hines

August 6th, 2014 1:49 PM
Readers of the New York Times know it as the "Weddings/Celebrations" section, which appears in every Sunday paper. Cynics have taken to labeling it the Women's Sports Page. It made for delightful reading this past weekend. Those browsing through the most recent installment weren't likely to miss the prominent placement of a story about attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Cheryl Hines…

Joe 'Gaffe-omatic' Biden Strikes Again, Calling Africa a 'Nation'; AP

August 6th, 2014 12:37 AM
They had to invent Sarah Palin's supposedly most embarrassing gaffe when she was the vice-presidential nominiee in 2008. She never said, "I can see Russia from my house!" Comedienne Tina Fey did. As noted at NewsBusters several days ago, that hasn't altered the folklore. You don't have to invent gaffes for Joe Biden, the man who became Vice President after the 2008 election. He generates them…

NYT's Court Reporter Takes Dictation from Liberal Justice Ginsburg as

August 5th, 2014 5:43 PM
The Supreme Court is still not moving fast enough to the left on social issues to please some liberals, and New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak is on it. His latest front-page report, "Justices’ Rulings Advance Gays; Women Less So," used a speech by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as his launch point. Not once did he question Ginsburg's liberal reasoning in his front-page…

NewsBusted: New York [High] Times

August 5th, 2014 1:30 PM
The New York Times... just endorsed the legalization of marijuana. But we think they just need more Americans stoned in order to take Paul Krugman seriously. To subscribe to NewsBusted via email, sign up here. To watch the Tuesday, August 5 edition, click play on the embed below the page break. To subscribe at YouTube, visit the NewsBusted channel here.

More Emotional Anti-Israel Slant from the New York Times: 'A Wave of T

August 4th, 2014 8:52 PM
As the fighting rages on in Israel, the New York Times again showed its anti-Israel slant in two days of stories that went beyond dispassionate journalism and into emotional manipulation. Times readers on Monday were greeted with a large front-page photo of a Palestinian man carrying an injured child. Also on Monday's front: Ben Hubbard and Jodi Rudoren's "Questions of Weapons and Warnings in…

ABC, NBC Join CNN in Ignoring Scandal Involving NY Governor Andrew Cuo

August 4th, 2014 12:20 PM
On Monday morning, broadcast networks ABC and NBC and cable news outlet CNN continued their blackout of the investigation into New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) and his shuttering of his own anti-corruption commission. Since the story broke on July 23 in The New York Times, neither one of these three news operations have covered the story. CBS This Morning, which previously reported on the…

HuffPo Posts Story on Barney Frank's July Interview Ripping Obama's 'Y

August 2nd, 2014 10:30 AM
Former Congressman Barney Frank had "a July interview" with the Huffington Post. The liberal blog's Zach Carter put up a post about it on Friday, August 1 at 3:59 p.m. How convenient, because Frank ripped President Obama and his administration, who he says "just lied to people" about whether they could keep their existing healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.…

NYT's Kirkpatrick Bizarrely Suggests Lack of Support for Hamas by Arab

July 31st, 2014 10:46 PM
New York Times Cairo bureau chief David Kirkpatrick's front-page story on Thursday, "Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent," appeared under a sympathy-inducing photo of a shattered United Nations school allegedly hit by an Israeli shell, while Kirkpatrick's story tried to induce sympathy toward Hamas, abandoned by Egypt and Saudi Arabia, its erstwhile allies in the fight…

NYT Reporter & Former Dem Staffer Claims 'Conservative Christians' (li

July 30th, 2014 8:12 PM
In his Wednesday afternoon posting at nytimes.com, "Religious Conservatives Embrace Proposed E.P.A. Rules," Times reporter Theodore Schleifer lent a megaphone to a prayer circle of alleged "conservative Christians" and "parts of the religious right" who favor more stringent EPA regulations on coal plants. The only thing missing from his report? Actual conservative Christians. It's the latest…

Andrea Mitchell Does About-Face on Russia: 'Who Says Cold War Isn't Ba

July 29th, 2014 8:15 PM
During the 2012 presidential campaign, GOP candidate Mitt Romney called Russia “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe,” a comment that was mocked by many Democrats and members of the press. One of those belittling the Republican's remark was MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, who admitted that the foreign country is “hardly an ally, but certainly not an adversary.” Two years later, the host of…

In Anti-Germ News, Media Gush That Obama 'Popularized' the Fist Bump

July 28th, 2014 5:30 PM
Fun (if obvious) medical news emerged on Monday that fist bumps are much healthier than germ-spreading handshakes. But the liberal media couldn’t report it without dragging in the cool factor of Barack Obama. Take AP’s Mike Stobbe, as posted on The Huffington Post: "So fist bumps — popularized by Barack Obama and others — seem to be the wisest greeting, especially during cold and flu season…

NYT Headlines Decline in Median Net Worth Since 2003, Downplays Much S

July 28th, 2014 12:20 AM
Which is the more important statistic: A 36 percent decline in U.S. median household net worth since 2003, or a 43 percent decline in that same statistic since 2007? The average person would certainly be more concerned about the latter, which represents an annual drop of about 7 percent compared to the less than 4 percent per year seen in the past decade. But apparently if you're a reporter…