Are Complaints About Liberal Media Bias Working

September 8th, 2008 2:44 PM
Last week was a fabulous one for all those fighting liberal media bias.On Wednesday, the crowd at the Republican National Convention spontaneously chanted "NBC, NBC" when vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin complained about how she was being portrayed by the press.Days later, while recording "The Chris Matthews Show" to be aired on Sunday, NBC's Andrea Mitchell changed her mind about the Palin…

Joe Klein Calls McCain's RNC Speech 'Truly Offensive

September 7th, 2008 2:01 PM
Time's Joe Klein went on quite a tirade during Sunday's "The Chris Matthews Show" calling John McCain's nomination acceptance speech at the just-concluded Republican National Convention "truly offensive."Amongst other things, Klein was disappointed that McCain didn't talk about the 6.1 percent unemployment rate in the nation despite this being impossible as that economic news wasn't released…

Time: Kilpatrick Quitting Helps Obama, Yet Media Largely Ignored His P

September 4th, 2008 10:24 PM
In "Kilpatrick Out, a Boost for Obama?", Time's Amy Sullivan explores the question of whether the resignation of the Democratic Detroit mayor will help the Obama ticket's chances in the swing state of Michigan. Sullivan relays that the Obama camp is "thrilled" by the end of the Kilpatrick saga, which had "damaged an already weakened Democratic brand in Michigan." Yet as NewsBusters has docmented…

Andrea: 'Amazing'; Brokaw 'Magnificent'; Mika: 'She Represents Life I

September 4th, 2008 12:03 PM
What does it say about Sarah Palin that some of my favorite targets, um, subjects raved about her this morning?  Andrea Mitchell and Mika Brzezinski could hardly have been more complimentary, Tom Brokaw and Jay Carney chipping in with positive comments.ANDREA MITCHELL: Here was a novice on the national scene, with the lowest of expectations. People said sure, she'll be able to perform. But it was…

Time Contradicts Itself on Obama-Biden Relationship

September 1st, 2008 9:07 PM

Time to Palin: GOP's in Trouble, How Would You Change Platform

August 29th, 2008 4:38 PM
Over on the magazine's Web site, Time's Jay Newton-Small published a brief phone interview she conducted on August 14 with Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), a full 15 days before being chosen by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as his running mate.The agenda of questions were overall devoid of a political slant and did include one softball about how her youth and gender affect her approach. But Newton-Small…

Time's Scherer Echoes Jimmy Carter on McCain 'POW Card

August 29th, 2008 1:58 AM
Yesterday in a chat with USA Today reporters, former President Jimmy Carter complained that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was "milking every possible drop of advantage" from his stay in the Hanoi Hilton.Perhaps picking up on that talking point, Time magazine's Michael Scherer asked in an August 28 article, "Is McCain Overplaying the POW Card?" Yet not once in his did Scherer point to Carter's…

Time Swoons: Kerry's 'Zell Miller Without the Mean

August 28th, 2008 8:59 AM

Time's Halperin Blue That Dems Not Tossing Out Red Meat

August 27th, 2008 3:19 PM
As my colleague Brent Baker noted earlier this morning, the "[m]ost prevalent theme during Tuesday night's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, after speculation over healing the Clinton-Obama feud" was "TV journalists worrying about how the Democrats are not adequately aggressive in their attacks against John McCain as reporters." The speeches weren't full of "red meat" to toss to the…

Time Magazine on Michelle Obama's 'Nuclear-family Nostalgia

August 25th, 2008 1:32 PM
Writing on "Michelle Obama's Savvy Sacrifice," Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small sought to bring out what the Illinois senator's spouse "is less likely to talk about" when she addresses the Democratic National Convention tonight. No, not her Princeton thesis or her being proud of America for the first time in her adult lifetime but rather: that this tough, razor smart Chicago native had to…

Time's Halperin: McCain's House Issue Harms Obama

August 24th, 2008 1:24 PM
ABC's George Stephanopoulos clearly had John McCain's houses on his mind Sunday, for during the latest installment of "This Week," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's real estate holdings were discussed with every guest.What Stephanopoulos may not have expected was Time's Mark Halperin claiming that "this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for…

Time's Twisted 'Worst Vice Presidents' List

August 22nd, 2008 5:57 PM
Correction/Author's Clarification:  Since I wrote this, Time has added two vice presidents to its list, one of them Henry Wallace. There were originally 13 VPs named; now there are 15. The cache page of the first VP listed, Aaron Burr, shows him as "1 of 13." I don't know for how long that will be shown. Is someone at Time reading NewsBusters? Time Magazine names the "Worst Vice Presidents in…

Time in the Tank: 8 Cover Appearances in 9 Months

August 21st, 2008 5:04 PM
Here's what's at the top of Drudge's middle column at the moment: Actually, I count seven previous cover appearances since December 10, 2007, less than nine months ago:

Obama on Time's Cover AGAIN

August 21st, 2008 4:55 PM
Via Drudge we get the recognition that Time Magazine has once again placed the Obamessiah on its cover. This makes the 7th time in the space of a year that Obama has graced the cover of Time Magazine. Thus far, McCain has found the favor of the front cover precisely two times. In the tank much?