Bozell Column: Embarrassing Celebrity Pundits
Howard Kurtz, the longtime Washington Post media reporter and CNN media-show host, inadvertently defined exactly what’s wrong with our political culture when he was asked in an online chat about actress Sally Field blurting out in her Emmy victory speech that if women ruled the world, there’d be no [expletive deleted] wars. Kurtz said awards shows might not be the best slot for political analysis…
Major Media Sanitize Extreme Views From Antiwar Protest Coverage
The mainstream media’s coverage of the antiwar march in Washington, DC did its best to ignore the extreme Left views that were on display at the protest. A split-second image at the very beginning of Saturday evening’s NBC Nightly News showed some of the extreme views that were on display on signs, which included a call for the impeachment of President Bush for "war crimes," and a sign that cried…
Alan Greenspan: I Never Said Iraq War Was About Oil
It's fitting that now that he's left his post as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan's words are being as closely scrutinized as they were back in his days at the Fed. Not carefully enough, though, it seems.Over the weekend, a media firestorm errupted after the Washington Post printed a news article claiming that in his memoirs, Greenspan said the ouster of the Saddam Hussein…
Kurtz Conveniently Ignores Hsu in List of Current Scandals
Mimicking NBC's Matt Lauer on "Today" with Tom DeLay a few weeks ago, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz chose Monday to address a number of political scandals in America, all of them of course dealing with Republicans. Yet, there was a brewing campaign finance scandal conspicuously absent from Kurtz's list. Need a hint what it might be? Maybe Glenn Reynolds' comical quip will help: "Hsoot,…
Google, Chinese Internet Censor, Wants 'International Privacy Standard
Apparently, the world's largest Internet search business believes it has little to fear from those who object to its continued involvement with government censorship in communist China. Google agreed to censor its search-engine results in accordance with government wishes in January 2006. That control regime is still in place, as comparative searches on "Tiananmen" at Google.com and Google.cn…
CNN’s Howard Kurtz Supports Bush Speaking With Milbloggers
A truly extraordinary event occurred on CNN Sunday: Howard Kurtz actually supported President Bush sitting down with milbloggers to discuss what's going on in Iraq.I kid you not. When this issue was raised on the most recent installment of "Reliable Sources" - that Bush had a meeting Friday attended by ten military bloggers - it seemed almost a metaphysical certitude the President would be…
Global Warming Obsessed Media Unfazed by Soaring Wheat Prices
As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, wheat prices soared last week to their highest levels in history. As many consumer products are made from this grain, and media love to carp and whine about inflation, one would have expected great focus to be given to this issue. However, as some of the upward pressure on wheat prices is directly attributable to biofuels, a global warming obsessed media…
WaPo: Hagel a 'Mainstream Conservative'; No Mention of Hinting Possibl
Persistent Bush critic and recurring Sunday morning talk show fixture Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) is announcing his retirement from the U.S. Senate. Reporting the story in the Sunday paper, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Chris Cillizza described the Iraq war critic as a "mainstream conservative who raised his profile nationally through his fierce opposition to President Bush's Iraq policies…
Schumer Floor Speech Slandering U.S. Troops Ignored by Old Media
Bloggers have caught a politician saying one thing in a speech, while carrying a very different rendering of a critical passage at a supposed "transcript" of that speech. The difference is significant. The transcript whitewashes a slander on the performance of US troops in Iraq delivered by a United States senator. Specifically, New York's Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the…
