David Brock’s Journey From ‘Right-wing Hit Man’ to Media Matters
October 8th, 2007 12:32 AM
Last Sunday, NewsBusters introduced readers to Media Matters for America, the left-wing organization behind the recent smear campaigns against conservative personalities Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. In the days that followed, although news outlets and leading Democrats continued to reference articles written by this shadowy group, few details were offered about the organization behind them…
Sportswriter Works Anti-Ann Coulter Shot Into Marion Jones Story
October 6th, 2007 3:13 PM
There's no media nook safe from liberal bias, not even sports reportingEver heard of New York Daily News sports writer Filip Bondy? Neither have I. But browsing through Google News this afternoon I saw a link to a story by Bondy that caught my attention: " Marion Jones drags others into selfish, steroid mess".The gist is that it was selfish of Jones to elbow her way onto the 2004 4x100-meter…
Revised August Jobs Report: Old Media Not Looking for Retractions from
October 6th, 2007 1:04 PM
NewsBusters' Brent Baker and Dan Gainor each did a fine job chronicling Old Media's weak coverage of yesterday's solid September Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's another Old Media non-followup on yesterday's news: Failure to get a reaction from two Democratic presidential candidates who had harsh things to say a month ago when August's weak employment report…
Unusual Winds Caused Arctic Ice Melts, Not Global Warming
October 5th, 2007 10:36 AM
Assume for a moment that a new study by NASA proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that manmade global warming was indeed responsible for the recent ice melts in the Arctic. Think media would have reported it? In reality, that's a bit of a trick question, for in the past several weeks, television newscasts, papers, and magazines have been filled with hysterical assertions about decreasing Arctic ice…
ABC Leaps to Defend the Laughter of Fun-Loving Hillary Clinton
October 1st, 2007 2:58 PM
On Monday’s "Good Morning America," ABC reporter Kate Snow rose to the defense of Hillary Clinton and the fact that she’s been seen manically giggling in many interviews. Referencing the mocking that the Democratic presidential candidate has taken on "The Daily Show" and other places, Snow asserted that either Hillary Clinton is either "having a really good time out on the campaign trail, or she'…
NYT Front Page Shocker: Ethanol Causing Rise in World Hunger
September 29th, 2007 6:12 PM
Here's something you don't see every day on the front page of a major American newspaper: an article about how the rising demand for ethanol has sent corn and grain prices so high that it's resulted in more people around the world going hungry. Even more shocking: the article in question was on the front page of Saturday's New York Times. In a piece entitled "As Prices Soar, U.S. Food Aid…
Bubble Boy? NYT's Rosenthal 'Can't Tell' Maureen Dowd's Politics
September 29th, 2007 8:13 AM
I would defy anyone to label Maureen Dowd by party affiliation or ideology. I've known her and worked closely with her for 20 years and I can't tell you the answer to either one -- Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York TimesWhat would be worse: that when Times editorial page editor Rosenthal claims not to know Maureen Dowd's politics he's not being honest -- or that he is?
