The Denver Post appears to be making an attempt to head off any eventual misconceptions that Democrats at the convention will come off as slightly air-headed. 17% more air-headed to be precise.…
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In the lead item on Friday's “Grapevine” segment on FNC's Special Report, anchor Bret Baier credited NewsBusters for documenting how Thursday night ABC's World News and NBC Nightly News stories,…
David Shuster, arbiter of journalistic standards? The MSM didn't bother to pursue the Edwards story, yet Shuster, he of "pimped out" fame, had the chutzpah to look down his nose not once but twice…
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On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," anchors Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer touted the marital relationship between Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife. Co-host…
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John Edwards accepts Father of the Year Award, June 27, 2007.
Kudos to ABC News for doing an investigation no one else would:
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair…
The Big Three networks continued to ignore the party affiliation of the now-incarcerated Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Friday morning, just as they had done in their evening news programs the…
Previous NewsBusters posts by Brent Baker and Rusty Weiss have noted the "strange" and nearly complete memory loss exhibited by the TV networks (with the expected exception of fair and balanced…
Five years ago, The Washington Post's Ceci Connolly did a front-page smear of Christian AIDS activist Jerry Thacker, who had been appointed to the presidential AIDS commission. The headline? "AIDS…
For decades, some on the left have decried the rise of the suburbs for everything from their impact on decentralizing big municipal governments to the impact longer commutes have on community…
Responding to pressure from consumers around the country as well as its own staff, Tyson Foods has reversed its decision to allow Muslim employees to take a religious day off instead of the…
It’s probably par for the course with this duo, but liberal MSNBC “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson rejected the view that the Republican…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Has the oil bubble finally burst?
If the trend continues into September at anything like the same rate of descent,…
Mark August 7, 2008 on your calendars. That was the day that the John Edwards scandal finally "pierced" the Los Angeles Times blogs following an earlier e-mail from Times editor Tony Pierce…
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Topics in today's show: Global Warming Delusion, the latest fad disease, Barack Obama goes back on his pledge to do townhall debates, Hillary Clinton hosts dinners to pay off campaign debts, Kim…
On Thursday’s Countdown show, one night after accusing President Bush of not doing enough to protect America from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization before the September 11th attacks, MSNBC…
“Who doesn't love a good villain?” So begins ABCnews.com writer Sona Charaipotra's article, “Worthy Adversaries: Villains Take Center Stage.”
Charaipotra investigates the thrill and…
NBC had a great opportunity on Wednesday night to start a meaningful discussion of teen pregnancy, but squandered it.
Today co-host Hoda Kotb and psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinsky hosted a…
Who's responsible for the exploding AIDS infection rate among men who have sex with men? The men having the sex (MSMs), or the people who say homosexual sex is unhealthy and morally wrong?
…“Texas Executes Mexican Despite Objections.” You'd think that Texas had executed some poor, honest, hard-working, migrant farm worker for not having a Green Card. The Aug. 6, Times column by James…
Now that Congress has recessed, and since the conventions aren’t for a couple of weeks, Thursday’s The Situation Room turned back to the "hot" issue of what many liberals are calling on…
Jonathan Kay of the National Post (Canada) is sure that we'll miss the old media when its gone. So sure he wrote a paean to how great the media is... and he missed the target by a wide margin on…
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hardly reticent about touting himself as a Democrat. After all, he's the Vice President of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors and in January was re-…
To paraphrase a line from my good friend B. Spears, ‘Oops, the AP did it again!'
What journalistic crime has been committed this time? How about, selective memory when it comes to a…
Ron Suskind's charge, that the Bush administration forged a letter to falsely link al-Qaeda with Saddam Hussein, landed the journalist/author not only a spot on Thursday night's "Hardball," but…