Film producer Spike Lee believes Barack Obama has a secret weapon that will be a big asset to his campaign: rappers. Yes, in Spike Lee's opinion hip-hop music will be a key element in getting…
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August 27th, 2008 10:02 AM | P.J. Gladnick
August 14th, 2008 12:52 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Over the past 10 years or so, one of the most commonly asked questions in media circles is why the public seems to be increasingly tuning out and unsubscribing from America's establishment media…
August 13th, 2008 7:21 PM | Jacob S. Lybbert
Jeff Poor's recent post (picked up by Drudge) reported on the potential return of the Fairness Doctrine under a President Obama--specifically for the purpose of the governing the internet.
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August 13th, 2008 9:08 AM | Jeff Poor
There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits…
August 13th, 2008 9:08 AM | Jeff Poor
If the idea of the Fairness Doctrine bringing government control of broadcasted speech wasn't bad enough, there's also a possibility that its oversight powers could spill over onto the Internet…
August 6th, 2008 10:59 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Self-censorship toward radical Muslims continues to be a problem in corporate America. The latest casualty: a book by author Sherry Jones about Aisha, the favored wife of Islam's founder Mohammed…
August 5th, 2008 1:37 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Update at bottom of post.
In a pre-taped segment, delivered from the Forbidden City in Beijing, NBC's Matt Lauer pointed out a poll that showed the Chinese are happier than Americans and…
August 5th, 2008 7:12 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Somebody call the Epidemiology Branch at the NIH. It's looking as if we're on the verge of a full-fledged epidemic of Obamania. As we noted here, NYT columnist Bob Herbert suffered an acute bout of…
July 31st, 2008 12:00 AM | Julia Seward
A regulation proposed by the Bush administration would deny federal funding to healthcare organizations that do not allow employees to opt out of providing services that violate their moral values…
July 29th, 2008 2:45 PM | P.J. Gladnick
The controversy over Wikipedia's censorship of any update regarding the alleged John Edwards scandal as chronicled by your humble correspondent yesterday has taken an interesting new turn.…
July 8th, 2008 3:43 PM | Amy Ridenour
I believe the Washington Post knows perfectly well that the word "censor" does not belong in the lead of today's Juliet Eilperin story, but the editors left it in (or inserted it?) anyway.
…July 6th, 2008 1:18 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Why would the New York Times divulge information that could prove harmful to the national security of the United States? Because, so consumed is it by hatred of President Bush, that the paper…
June 27th, 2008 8:59 PM | P.J. Gladnick
Michelle Boorstein, writing in the Washington Post's The Trail, sounded more like she was presenting a glowing Barack Obama campaign press release than a political story when she announced the…
June 27th, 2008 12:27 PM | Richard Newcomb
The NewsBusters staff noted yesterday that the increasingly good news in Iraq was not being covered by the US media. And it is good news. Contrary to the wishes of much, if not most, of the…
June 27th, 2008 8:18 AM | Tim Graham
The absence of liberal outrage over Barack Obama’s decision to reject public financing for his presidential campaign took a jaw-dropping turn on the hard-left Pacifica Radio network and its show "…
June 23rd, 2008 11:48 AM | Seton Motley
Laura Ingraham, syndicated radio talk show host and now host of Just In on the Fox News Channel, filled in for Bill O'Reilly, syndicated radio talk show host, on his FNC Show The O'Reilly Factor…
June 18th, 2008 5:30 PM | Brent Baker
In an op-ed in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal (page A-15), “Russert Took Media Bias Seriously,” former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg observed:What made Tim Russert different, and better, I…
June 18th, 2008 3:16 PM | NB Staff
From our friends at MRCAction.org, a petition to stop the Fairness Doctrine and save conservative talk radio:
Even though they virtually dominate the media on television and in print,…
June 18th, 2008 1:05 AM | Brad Wilmouth
When Georgia Republicans ran an ad against former Senator Max Cleland, which included a photograph of Osama bin Laden, attacking the Democratic Senator's numerous votes to apply labor union rules…
June 17th, 2008 7:01 PM | Tim Graham
Like most media outlets, Broadcasting & Cable magazine is wowed by Barack Obama. Introducing its cover story/interview with the candidate/savior, reporter John Eggerton declared Obama earned…
June 16th, 2008 1:32 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It was all just an "error" that's since been "fine-tuned." So says Barnes & Noble [B&N] now about the way its search engine was prominently returning Barack Obama's "Audacity of Hope" in…
June 9th, 2008 8:35 AM | Kevin Mooney
While it may fashionable to believe America's civil liberties have been sacrificed in the name of dubious national security claims, a careful reading of recent history suggests the opposite is…
June 7th, 2008 3:25 PM | Noel Sheppard
Now that Hillary Clinton has officially conceded the Democrat presidential nomination, will media be as interested in former supporters bashing her campaign tactics as they are former Bush…
June 3rd, 2008 10:53 PM | Amy Ridenour
If you plug the search terms "James Hansen" and "censored" into Google, you get 37,900 results. Do the same search substituting "Roy Spencer" for "James Hansen," and you get 610 results (the…
May 17th, 2008 9:11 PM | Noel Sheppard
Conservative radio talk show host and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin on Friday called for MSNBC to suspend Keith Olbermann as a result of his deplorable remarks concerning American soldiers and…