Jon Stewart with Dana Perino: Ari Fleischer, Ugly Serial Killer?

White House press secretary Dana Perino appeared on The Daily Show Thursday night, and host Jon Stewart disparaged former spokesman Ari Fleischer as looking like a caveman. When Perino protested that Fleischer had a female following, …

ABC Finds Optimistic Iraqis and Kids Playing Safely on the Street

(The MRC on Monday posted a Media Reality Check compilation of highlights from several reports and studies on war coverage, “Five Years of Slant Against Iraq War Success; MRC Studies: Nets Minimize Iraq Success and Heroism, …

Ongoing Blackout of Wright's 9/11 Rant, Only ABC Covers Him Monday

The broadcast network evening show blackout, of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s 2001 charge that the US earned the 9/11 attacks, continued Monday night as neither CBS nor NBC touched the Wright issue and ABC ran a full story which included …

What Media Bias?

Our local rag does it again. In today’s print edition — Saint Patrick’s Day, 17 March 2008, the 20th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s gassing of the innocents in Halabja*, our local so-called journal prints two articles of “news”: an …

AP Just Noticed 'Iraq War Disappears' From TV

Of course, Bauder is trying to spin this neglect as mere “fatigue,” as if the war were a fad that people have just grown tired of as opposed to TV losing interest because the war no longer fits the we-can’t-win template that the media …

ABC's Roberts Fawns Over Heart-Warming Clinton Charity

“Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts interviewed Bill Clinton for nine minutes over two segments on Monday and somehow managed to avoid discussing the disgraced Eliot Spitzer and controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. …

CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses Obama’s Pastor, No Mention of Most …

The coverage began with a report from CBS correspondent Dean Reynolds, who suggested the media was paying too much attention to the story: “For days now the news media have recycled Reverend Wright’s sermons or at least their most …

Liberal Media Bias?

Here and here are a couple more entries to compare with the media frenzy over Eliot Spitzer’s infidelity. Both the media and Richard Land have given conservatives in this administration and in the federal judiciary an inordinately free …

Doh! Cramer Told E-Mailer to Hold Onto Bear Stearns Stock a Week Ago

He’d probably like to take this comment back, but then again there are probably many things CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer has said that he’d like to take back. In a response to an e-mail posted on his Web site on March 11, …

WaPo Editors Huff at 'Paternalistic' Abortion Ban, Support DC Gun Ban

It’s not often we criticize newspaper editorials, after all, bias occurs in slanted reporting. One expects opinion in editorials. But I thought it worth pointing out to NewsBusters readers the hypocrisy of the Post vehemently opposing …