Howard Kurtz this morning invited National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle, and Time’s Karen Tumulty on to discuss Ann Coulter’s new book, and her recent appearance on…
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June 11th, 2006 9:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
June 7th, 2006 9:17 PM | Noel Sheppard
There’s an old saying in business: money talks and, well, something that comes out of a male cow walks. In the case of Google, it appears that dollar signs, regardless of the foreign or domestic…
June 5th, 2006 12:08 PM | Mithridate Ombud
The Capital Times ran a front page story on Memorial Day that was the perfect way for a newspaper to celebrate our military heroes; the cookie cutter foreign war vet who "can't get a job" despite…
May 31st, 2006 11:04 AM | Noel Sheppard
Human rights group Amnesty International has launched a new campaign to fight Internet censorship. At its new website devoted to this cause, AI explained its position:
“Chat rooms monitored…
May 24th, 2006 11:58 AM | Matthew Sheffield
After successfully putting the kibosh on a "South Park" episode that made fun of scientology and himself, actor Tom Cruise has expanded his censorship efforts overseas where he's succeeded in…
May 23rd, 2006 2:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
Since NewsBusters first broke the story about Google News capriciously terminating its relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals, and followed (with the help of writer and software…
May 22nd, 2006 9:37 AM | Noel Sheppard
Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and…
April 20th, 2006 1:26 PM | Matthew Sheffield
The authoritarian government of China is well-known for suppressing free speech and sometimes getting American media companies eager to cash in on a huge emerging market to help it do so. Yahoo,…
April 14th, 2006 9:08 PM | Matthew Sheffield
The controversy over Comedy Central's decision to censor its show "South Park" continues to heat up. Late Thursday, the network issued a statement admitting that it did refuse to run a scene which…
April 6th, 2006 11:30 AM | Greg Sheffield
Comedy Central's hit show "South Park" just won a Peabody, the highest award given to TV shows. The most recent episode dealt with the controversy surrounding depictions of Mohammad.
In…
March 31st, 2006 3:35 PM | Matthew Sheffield
A small-time member of Canada's parliament made headlines today by sending out and later retracting a column which called for jail time for reporters who "fabricate stories, or twist information…
March 30th, 2006 5:51 AM | Tim Graham
Both Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank and religion reporter Alan Cooperman covered the "War on Christians" conference Tuesday, but neither touched on one trend in Canada that American…
March 17th, 2006 7:14 AM | Tim Graham
Over at TimesWatch on Thursday, Clay Waters tackled a controversy over a postponed play celebrating the life and activism of Rachel Corrie, an American-flag-burning activist for Israel-hating…
March 2nd, 2006 1:07 PM | Clay Waters
What issue will doom Congressional Republicans in 2006? In February, it was Abramoff, while the month of March is shaping up as the UAE ports controversy.
This morning, the Times once again…
March 1st, 2006 3:10 PM | Tim Graham
When asked if Hollywood is liberal (culturally or politically), whether it's outside the American mainstream, or attempting to drag it to the left, two big stars told CNN's Larry King no.…
February 22nd, 2006 10:21 AM | Mithridate Ombud
When Progress for America tried to air a commercial with Minnesota veterans defending U.S. war policy in Iraq, they soon found their money was no good at KSTP - Channel 5. What was the offending…
February 17th, 2006 12:23 PM | Chris Judd
Could the Nazis take over America? It’s one thing for the ridiculously incendiary notion to be raised in a major magazine by an aging Hollywood lefty…
February 12th, 2006 8:40 AM | Tim Graham
Even though Al Gore never became president, Karenna Gore Schiff is getting another round of puffery over her new 500-page-plus book on female heroes, "Lighting the Way." (She did "Today" on NBC…
January 30th, 2006 8:06 PM | Tom Blumer
As noted at this NewsBusters post last week, when it became known that President Bush was reading "Mao: The Unknown Story," Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times pigeonholed the book:
The book…
January 29th, 2006 2:59 PM | Tom Blumer
Here's a real puzzler that I hope I am wrong about:
Am I the only person noticing a silence, bordering on total, from the big lefty blogs?
There are plenty of examples in history of the…
January 25th, 2006 3:56 PM | Ken Shepherd
On the Jan. 19, "NBC Nightly News," introducing a story on Google's refusal to comply with a subpoena for Web search records, anchor Brian Williams alerted viewers to "a developing story in this…
December 28th, 2005 10:09 PM | Stacy L. Harp
Did you know that a brave Navy Chaplain by the name of Gordon Klingenschmitt has been on a fast since December 20th? Probably not because the coverage in the mainstream media has been very…
December 23rd, 2005 8:17 AM | Resa Kirkland
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well someday become the foundation of a common citizenship—Winston Churchill
…December 15th, 2005 5:49 PM | Noel Sheppard
Last Friday, the National Security Archive, a research institute and library located at George Washington University that collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom…
October 26th, 2005 10:58 PM | Dustin Hawkins
In an attempt to downplay the scope of the communist infilitration into our government in the 1950's and the true role Joseph McCarthy played during the era of so-called "McCarthyism", George…