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NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States. The Audit Bureau of Circulations won't be releasing its latest figures until Oct. 26, but the Journal said Wednesday that it gained about 12,000 subscribers in the April-September period, compared with a year earlier. That puts its average Monday-Friday circulation at 2.02 million. The Journal claimed the top spot last week after USA Today released its circulation figures early, but had not given out specifics until Wednesday. USA Today, which has long been No. 1, said last week that it...

Congratulations to the staff of The Wall Street Journal! Despite the national trend, the WSJ continues to gain circulation. Americans don't like being lied to. Reporting the truth without the liberal spin has paid off for the Journal. As the state-run media continues to lose viewers and readers due to their biased and inaccurate reporting the Wall Street Journal is now the top-cirulating newspaper in the United States.

It's easy, and accurate, to take a potshot at the Associated Press for liberal bias when it inks a deal to distribute the investigative reporting of four left-leaning nonprofits but no conservative works, and that's exactly what Paul Chesser did at AmSpecBlog over the weekend. But the fault for a lack of conservative presence in AP's six-month distribution experiment isn't AP's alone. The wire service would be hard-pressed to distribute conservative investigative journalism because precious little of it exists right now or is being produced on a consistent basis. There are bright spots. Mark Tapscott is building an all-star team...

Conservative magazines are not so loyal to the GOP these days. From the New York Times Verbal brawling among conservatives over the future of the movement and the Republican Party has shifted into hyperdrive recently. From ideological conservatives like Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh to big-tent moderates like Colin L. Powell and Christine Todd Whitman, Republicans have been on talk shows and at debates to plead their cases and pan erstwhile allies. Yet there is one arena that seems decidedly uninterested in serving as a forum for competing visions: conservative magazines. At The Weekly Standard, the point is “to air...

From the notification email: "Media Research Center’s Director of Communications Seton Motley is attending and will be reporting from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age” took place today 10 a.m. until 3 p.m Friday, 7 May." "Given the fact that not one free speech-free market organization is involved in this “Diversity” meeting, Seton’s presence and “spin-free” audio updates are critical to all who are interested in protecting our Free Speech Rights."

After viewing an article on examiner.com that asks the question about the current existance of the “liberal media bias”…. I thought I would share a few thoughts on this. Not long ago (10 or 15 years ago) the big buzz on talk radio was how unfair and completely bias the media was - to the left. In fact it’s only in recent years that this proclamation has died down. But I would say the notion of only 1 side being represented on a given subject - has changed dramatically… and is worth noting. The way news is being covered these...

PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR Red Headline blazing on Drudge...

RUSH: I want to dedicate today's Dow Jones Industrial Average, it's at about 269, up at the moment, to the Republicans in the House of Representatives for their boldness yesterday. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and three hours of broadcast excellence, as you have come to know, love, and expect, straight ahead for the next three hours. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I was going to say, I can't believe how wrong everybody's getting this. Then I have to stop and think, yes, I can believe how wrong everybody's getting this, because...

All of us have been talking about the show I will be doing for Fox News. I wanted to bring you up to date on what is going on. The show will be called "Huckabee." I'm sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it. "Huckabee" will air this Saturday and Sunday at 8 PM Eastern time on Fox News Channel. Please be sure to watch, and let me know what you think. Send this email on to your family and friends and invite them to watch also.

One of the most frustrating aspects of this election season has been the willingness of our allies in the conservative media to outsmart themselves by supporting liberal Republicans. Some of them latched on to one of these "moderates" from day one. The most egregious example of this tendency is Sean Hannity, who must feel a bit foolish for his slavish promotion of Giuliani, given Rudy's inglorious performance at the polls. Hugh Hewitt also gets raspberries for becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Romney, Inc. One wonders if the FEC will be investigating Hewitt for all the free advertising he has...

The Left’s near monopoly over the institutions of opinion and information—which long allowed liberal opinion makers to sweep aside ideas and beliefs they disagreed with, as if they were beneath argument—is skidding to a startlingly swift halt. The transformation has gone far beyond the rise of conservative talk radio, that, ever since Rush Limbaugh’s debut 15 years ago, has chipped away at the power of the New York Times, the networks, and the rest of the elite media to set the terms of the nation’s political and cultural debate. Almost overnight, three huge changes in communications have injected conservative ideas...

WASHINGTON—Liberals in Congress have recently launched a major assault on conservative media by proposing sweeping regulations of mass media - regulations designed to muzzle popular conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. The liberal onslaught includes an attempt to embarrass President Bush by rolling back a recent decision by Bush's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to de-regulate ownership of radio and TV stations. The June 2 FCC decision takes a major step towards deregulating mass media and allowing the free market - and not government bureaucrats - to determine what voices should be heard. The Left's...

Fox News Corporation, Clear Channel Communications are worst offenders For the past few decades, the word media was rarely heard without the adjective "liberal." Still to this day, anytime there is any news that is contrary to the conservative viewpoint it is passed off as liberal bias. At one time this assertion was probably accurate, but, with a run through the channels, anyone can see that the supposed liberal media is now overpowered by the sensationalism and frenzy of the conservative media. The fantasy of a liberal media is dead, and fairness, civility and trust have gone down along with...

Freezing temperatures in midtown Manhattan last week couldn't keep Tom and Barbara Fahey from catching their favorite morning TV personalities. "They can be talking to Henry Kissinger and then turn around and laugh," says Barbara Fahey, 56, as she peered through the tinted glass of a street-level studio. "They're serious, but then they can be entertaining." "They're positive and upbeat," husband Tom, 61, adds. These tourists from Baltimore were not looking for NBC's Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. Try Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill and Brian Kilmeade, hosts of Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends." A year ago, a typical response...

While liberals whine about conservative media So-called liberals lost an election. Now they’re whining about conservative successes in the media. On New Year's Day The New York Times ran a frontpage story that described liberal plans to recruit talk show hosts to compete with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Reagan, to buy a cable network and to fund a liberal think tank comparable to the Heritage Foundation. Liberals still don't get it. There’s no big liberal audience for liberal talk show hosts because they control taxpayer funded NPR and all the metropolitan newspapers; or for liberal cable, because they...