NewsBusters is desperately trying to play down Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s suggestion that all Democrats and liberals are anti-American and called for a “penetrating expose” in the media of what members of…
Tag: Mark Finkelstein
Krugman Derangement Syndrome
There’s a case of some very sour grapes at the Media Research Center over Paul Krugman being awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. In an Oct. 13 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein took…
MRC Silent on Study Documenting Negative Obama Media Coverage
A study on media bias issued by the Center for Media and Public Affairs should be a big deal for the Media Research Center. After all, as we’ve noted, the CMPA is…
MRC: Don’t Call John McCain Old!
The Media Research Center has decided: The media is not allowed to reference John McCain’s age, or even to say something that might possibly obliquely refer to it. A May 8 NewsBusters…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Poll Methodology
The Media Research Center in general, and NewsBusters in particular, have been quick to attack the methodology of polls that don’t mesh with its conservative viewpoint — witness last year’s attack on…
Another Selectively Edited Finkelstein Transcript
Noel Sheppard apparently hasn’t had that talk we recommended he have with Mark Finkelstein — you know, about selectively editing the transcripts he posts on NewsBusters. Because Finkelstein has done it again….
More Selective Editing From Finkelstein
NewsBusters’ Mark Finkelstein is becoming quite the master at selectively editing the transcripts he posts to bolster his claims. He does so again in a Jan. 8 post depicting a debate between…
Finkelstein Misleads on Matthews’ ‘Anger’
A Jan. 4 NewsBusters post by Mark Finkelstein claims there was a “a very rare display of real anger” between Chris Matthews and Matt Lauer during MSNBC’s coverage of the swearing-in of…
Dear NewsBusters …
Note to Tim Graham, Mark Finkelstein, Ian Schwartz, and the other NewsBusters denizens enraptured by Laura Ingraham’s claim that the reporters are covering the Iraq war by watching it from the balconies…