In the midst of using a Sept. 29 NewsBusters post to whine about coverage of the upholding of an Ohio early-voting law, Tom Blumer demonstrates his hostility to early voting: Ohio had…
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NewsBusters Thinks WMDs Were Found In Iraq
NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer desperately wants to cling to the idea that weapons of mass destruction really were found in Iraq. Blumer rants in a Sept. 29 post: Apparently, “There were no WMDs…
NewsBusters’ Blumer Repeats Misleading Claim About Arctic Ice
Tom Blumer is very excited in an Aug. 30 NewsBusters post: Ice, ice baby. That’s what they have a lot more of in the Arctic. The UK Daily Mail, one of those…
MRC Desperately Tries To Discredit School-Shooting Statistic
When the group Everytown for Gun Safety came out with its statistic last week that there have been 74 school shootings since the Newtown massacre, the MRC knew it had to shoot…
NewsBusters’ Blumer Unhappy That White House Was Allowed To Respond To An Attack
One of the standard Media Research Center liberal-media tropes is claiming that the media covers only one side of an issue. For some MRC employees, covering one side of a story is…
Tom Blumer’s Double Standard on Guilt By Association
Tom Blumer rants in an April 28 NewsBusters post: Politico’s David Nather must have thought he was so clever. Here’s how he opened a recent column: “It can happen to anyone, right?…
NewsBusters, WND Desperately Play Guilt-By-Association With Racist NBA Owner
It’s almost as if the right-wing media is following the same set of talking points. Both NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer and WorldNetDaily’s Joe Kovacs have basically written the same article highlighting the fact…
NewsBusters’ Blumer Still Doesn’t Understand How Journalism Works
For a guy who purports to be a media critic, NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer is remarkably clueless about how the media works. Blumer demonstrates this again in an April 9 post with the…
NewsBusters Won’t Tell Readers About Klayman’s CNN Conspiracy
Noel Sheppard writes in a Dec. 19 NewsBusters post: Is there an anatomical limit to how many times someone can put their foot in their mouth? Consider the case of CNN’s Piers…
NewsBusters’ Blumer Sneers At Responsible Reporting
The right-wing media had a fit when the Denver Post removed a statement about Colorado school shooter Karl Pierson, as claimed by another student, that he was a “socialist.” NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer…