New NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard took up a flurry of complaints when veteran news anchor Jean Cochran told listeners President Bush was traveling to Africa, the "dark continent." They insisted NPR…
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Well, here is what might be a landmark case for the blogosphere, for the Internet, and for the future of our new media, citizen journalism. The AP has just sent a cease and desist letter to Brian…
In a lengthy seven-a-half minute Friday CBS Evening News profile story, “For the Record: Hillary Clinton,” reporter Nancy Cordes devoted a measly 15 seconds, a piddling three percent of the story, to…
Much of what we do here at Newsbusters is serious commentary on the leftist bias in this world, issues that are consequential to the debate between right and left. But, today we can sit back and…
There has been plenty of debate over whether military detainees should be put through civilan courts in the U.S. The ACLU think so and even want the detainees in Gitmo to be dragged through…
"Nightline" correspondent Cynthia McFadden filed another fawning profile on "rock star" Hillary Clinton for Thursday's program. The journalist, who has developed a long history of gushing over the…
This one is just too funny not to post. On his show last night, Larry King had pop singer Janet Jackson for the whole hour. At the end, he decided he wanted to learn one of her dance moves. What…
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Wearing a penguin hat, Today show co-anchor Meredith Vieira takes a plunge in the icy waters of Lake Champlain on February 20, 2008.
On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith interviewed the Managing Editor of Time Magazine, Richard Stengel, about the publication’s latest cover story on the presidential campaign…
There’s nothing like a snide comment about President George W. Bush to make you feel better about paying more for food and energy.
But you’d expect a higher of level of decorum…
When it comes to climate change the media often sound like a broken record – repeating gloomy predictions and calls for “action.”
In fact, some reporters have even made it their…
"It's not easy being green" isn't just the lament of Kermit the Frog, it's the dilemma of carbon-crunching greeniacs everywhere.
At least that's the sanctimonious cri de coeur of Seattle…
Do you want to be “green cool”? It’ll cost you.
Time magazine’s global warming advocacy journalist Bryan Walsh wrote about Joe Harberg, “an energy-efficiency guru” who runs a…
Need more evidence the old-time mainstream media are becoming relics?
New York’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, told an audience the evolution of the modern…
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Fresh off of Bianna Golodryga’s “tidbits of good news” on ABC’s “Good Morning America” February 27, NBC “Today” show contributor Erin Burnett found…
A truly remarkable and historic global event is occurring: New York is about to overtake London as the world's leading financial center.
Yet, with America's press convinced that the United…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the smartest woman in the world complains about sexism in the campaign (paragraph breaks removed):
In an interview with ABC News…
The media’s tender loving care of and hypersensitivity in protection of Barack Obama is going to put a real crimp in attempts at Obama humor. The latest survey of late-night jokes from the Center…
BMI Vice President Dan Gainor took to the Fox Business Network Thursday to explain the difference between "depression," "recession" and "slow growth," terms the mainstream media has blurred.
…While it is currently conventional wisdom in the media that there was no Al-Qaeda presence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, as evidenced by the media's failure to correct Barack Obama's recent…
It's enough to make Hillary yearn for a tough hit piece about herself . . .If there's anything worse for a candidate than being attacked by the press, it's being ignored. Yet that is precisely the…
Topics in this episode: Polls show Americans are more optimistic, Chelsea Clinton says she won't move back to the White House, Chicago paper devotes entire section to Barack Obama, and Ted Danson…
Thirty years ago I was fresh out of college, with no particular career path chosen, and decided I'd like to be a nationally-syndicated columnist. I'd learn rather quickly that before being one,…
Has America become a police state?
Just read these ominous words spoken by Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News Feb. 28: “Back in this country, a shocking new number released today and it…
ABC reporter Dan Harris introduced the helpful term “moral hazard” into the lexicon of reporting on the brewing bailout controversy, whether the government should help people defaulting on their…