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The American flag.
Her colors are bold, her design optimistic and celebratory -- a powerful symbol of growth, justice, personal challenge, and joy. The Stars and Stripes' home is America, but her hope is universal. She flies wherever humanity aims towards its highest ideal.
After September 11, the American flag [...]
You've heard of Bush Derangement Syndrome, now it seems as though McCain Derangement Syndrome is starting to appear.
As you might expect, the first outbreak was on MSNBC where liberal commentator and screenwriter John Ridley wondered whether McCain's coincidental presence in Colombia during the recent daring hostage rescue [...]
When it comes to fawning over Barack Obama, it seems that no media outlet is too obscure for bias. The Old Bridge Observer, a small, weekly newspaper published in Northern Virginia, printed a gushing account of Barack Obama's recent swing through Virginia and the candidate's desire to "bring his message [...]
As reported by CBS and the Associated Press moments ago:
Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 86.
Helms died at 1:15 this morning, according to the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina.
Our prayers and thoughts go out [...]
Leave it to radio star Martha Zoller to sum up the need for radio independence this Independence Day. Zoller, writing a timely piece for the Business & Media Institute, gives a brief history of the rise of talk radio and a true free market of ideas.
Thanks to [...]
With few exceptions, Obama-loving media have been very forgiving of the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee's recent campaign flip-flops.
They've called them nuanced, and good strategy by a young politician learning the ropes.
Will anti-war press members be so understanding if Obama changes his position on Iraq, and suggests that conditions [...]
Losing its independence on Independence Day, Lexico is now part of the Answers.com (NSDQ: ANSW) family, as IAC's (NSDQ: IACI) portal completes its purported $100 million cash acquisition of the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com operator. Announcing the completion, which had been [...]
Today's Chicago Sun-Times celebrates Independence Day with "Boeing as amoral as firms that aided Hitler," written by columnist Dick Simpson.
Simpson tells us:
Boeing pretends to be a good corporate citizen supporting Chicago arts groups and community organizations with grants. The company is listed prominently in playbills and annual [...]
For several weeks, NewsBusters has been critical of the media for not exposing and critiquing presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign flip-flops.
Well, on Independence Day, the New York Times editorial staff not only took on the junior senator from Illinois' recent changes of heart, but did [...]
If the energy company CEOs, oil speculators, and Saudi princes ever needed a great PR line, it's now.
And here 'tis.
Oil Companies: In The Business Of Saving Lives
The bad news: Fuel prices have skyrocketed.
The good news: You're around not to afford them
Yessiree. Thanks to oil cartels and other miscellaneous profiteers [...]
Last night, Greta van Susteren bared her fangs and took a giant chunk out of Anderson Cooper's neck, calling him out for hypocrisy, accusing him of exploiting Katrina, and labeling him a "marketing experiment." Happy 4th!
Van Susteren reacted comments from AC 360 executive producer David Doss on [...]
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy reported last month that a teenager who has been depressed in the past year was more than twice as likely to have used marijuana than teenagers who have not reported being depressed (25 percent compared with 12 percent). The [...]
Sharon Waxman of Huffington Post writes that business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio may still be having some trouble with morale and now with thin ad sales.
Waxman writes, “The thin display of ads in this month’s issue with Starbucks’ Howard Schultz as cover art (32 [...]
A new publisher has been named at The Daily Report, a business newspaper based in Atlanta, and its editor has been given the additional title of associate publisher, according to a release.
Blair Matthews is the new publisher. Ed Bean, editor in chief of the newspaper, will assume [...]
Conservative media critics know New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse as an overtly liberal reporter who has marched in pro-abortion protests and gives speeches about her crying at rock concerts about how conservatives have ruined the country and mangled the promise of the baby-boomer generation. [...]
New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS on June 27 to demonstrate how reporters have noticed Barack Obama trying to dance away from the hard-left positions he took in the primaries, but they still want to paint him as a special politician, not a typical one. [...]
New chapter in the lack-of-love fest between Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow. As noted here and here, the pair have clashed in the past. The GOP-congressman-turned-MSNBC-host and the Air America personality got into it again on last evening's Race for the White House, with Joe [guest-hosting [...]
Adam Valkin, a partner in Arts Alliance and an online media veteran, is leaving the VC house after nine years to join Endemol as its global head of digital media and new business, as the TV maker continues its new line-up. [...]

Happy Fourth of July from all of us at NewsBusters! Topics in today's show: a skewed LA Times poll, further declines in Iraq violence, Heather Locklear's depression, and your tax dollars at work creating an anti-flatulence vaccine for sheep.
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Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their copy. The process would force writers to check information they think they know that isn't so.
Had [...]
NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - [...]

Just as I was gearing up for a calm July 4th weekend, Joe Scarborough raised my blood pressure to a high boil. Coming in 20 minutes late to "Race for the White House" on MSNBC, my son informed me that Maddow was arguing with Scarborough in [...]
Update: Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash
Everyone can add two more Obama flip-flops to the ever-growing list. Obama managed to make a full circle twist on the war in Iraq. After gathering the liberal masses on his promise to quickly withdraw troops from Iraq, [...]
You can almost hear the violins playing while reading U.K. Guardian writer Zachary Roth bemoan the "swiftboat" labeling of Barack Obama by those wascally Republicans:
Over the last few months, Barack Obama has been variously label