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BaltSun Names Indicted Mayor's Party Affiliation... In Last Paragraph of Story

Twelve days ago I noted how the Baltimore Sun failed to mention indicted Mayor Sheila Dixon's Democratic Party affiliation in a story about an embezzlement trial. The mayor stands accused of misappropriating gift cards intended for poor Baltimoreans. ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sheila Dixon,  U.S. Democratic Party

WaPo Buries Faulty GAO Data Story on Page A22; No Mention of Fake Congressional Districts

The print story is accompanied by a screenshot of Recovery.gov, which the caption beneath it notes "is the government's stimulus-tracking Web site." Of course, the biggest inaccuracies recently observed on Recovery.gov are non-existent congressional ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Government Accountability Office,  Earl E Devaney,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Newsweek: Butterfly Ballot in 2000, Obama as 2004 Dem Keynoter 'History-altering Decisions'

As part of an ongoing retrospective of the the first decade of the 21st century, Newsweek has ginned up a boatload of top 10 lists and assigned some Hollywood celebrities and Washington politicians to pen brief blurbs to accompany some of the entries. ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Newsweek,  John Kerry,  Al Gore,  John F. Kennedy

Newsweek's Miller Complains 'Abortion Is Not the Only Moral Issue' in Health Care Debate

"This week's abortion conversation is about politics. Let's not pretend it's about anything else," Newsweek's Lisa Miller huffed in a November 18 Newsweek.com post, complaining about how the moral issues surrounding abortion are taking on a life of ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Roman Catholic Church

WaPo: McDonnell Should Denounce Robertson; Paper Praised Obama's Quasi-Repudiation of Wright

Three days ago, I argued that the Washington Post was ginning up a new campaign to discredit Republican governor-elect Bob McDonnell, having failed to sink his candidacy  by its continual harping about his culturally conservative graduate's thesis at ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Washington Post Company,  Pat Robertson,  Bob McDonnell,  U.S. Republican Party

WaPo Headline Bias: Paper Profiles Clergyman 'Seeking to Put Asunder' Gay Marriage

Headline wording choice can set the tone for liberal bias, and a November 18 Washington Post Style front-pager is a classic example. And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

Newsweek Suggests NRA on Side of Terrorists in Amtrak Gun Policy Fight

Isikoff pitted supporters of gun rights, particularly the National Rifle Association (NRA) against "security-minded" legislators worried about gun use in terrorist attacks on the nation's railways: Just how much clout does the gun lobby have on Capitol ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Rifle Association,  Amtrak,  Newsweek,  Bennie Thompson,  Peter King

Breaking News: NYPD Raid of New York Newspapers' Circulation Offices

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From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

USA Today Religion Blog: Is Bible-defacing 'An Acceptable Political Statement'?

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From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: USA Today

WaPo Fails to Consider Dem Gov/DNC Chairman Kaine's Role in 18-Point Loss for Deeds

His state voted Democratic in the 2008 presidential contest for the first time in 44 years, he's personally popular with voters, and he's currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Yet not once in her November 17 11-paragraph story ...

From KEN SHEPHERD, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Democratic National Committee,  Washington Post Company

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