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Despite the distribution of a video of the Arab suicide bomber who intended to blow up a hospital by the IDF, nearly all foreign news agencies chose to boycott the story altogether. An outraged former undersecretary to US President Ronald Reagan and candidate for Republican Presidential nominee, Gary Bauer wrote a scathing critique of the world media’s decision to avoid the story. Excerpts from Bauer’s letter: ”If you don't get the Fox News Channel then you didn't see any of the dramatic footage of the Israeli army's arrest yesterday of a 21-year old, female Palestinian homicide-bomber, strapped with 25 pounds...

Gallup Poll: Public Trust In Media At All Time Low June 13, 2005 2:25 p.m. EST Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - A new Gallup poll released today shows statistics that many in America have been claiming for the last ten years "credibility is vanishing from news". Between the CBS Texas Air National Guard story with President Bush,to Newsweek's mishandling of the Quran story,people polled with questions relating to credibility in the news whether it be in paper or on TV proved to be shockingly low. The poll stated people who have a...

CALGARY, June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An extensive study into Canada's publicly funded national broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), has found that CBC television news coverage of the United States is consistently marked by emotional criticism, rather than a rational consideration of US policy based on Canadian national interests. In the study, released today by the Canadian think-tank, The Fraser Institute, the authors examine the kind of anti-American views expressed in one major Canadian news outlet. They attempt to determine whether views critical of the United States reflect chiefly a rational criticism of the United States based on reasonable...

Let's head on now to the ongoing Newsweek story. This is a Washington Post story. The Washington Post has, at least as far as I count, three stories today on this. The first one I want to call your attention to by Howard Kurtz, our old buddy who is their media analyst there. "The debate over a retracted Newsweek report broadened yesterday into an argument about media and government ethics." What debate? What debate is there that's going on? Newsweek retracted a story. Would somebody tell me what there is to debate? Well, Howard says that the debate here is...

"The big point that leaps out is the cultural one. Neither Newsweek nor the Pentagon foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did. The Pentagon saw the item before it ran, and then they didn't move us off it for 11 days afterward. They were as caught off guard by the furor as we were." That's what Newsweek's highly respected investigative reporter Mike Isikoff told the New York Times Monday, adding, "We obviously blame ourselves for not understanding the potential ramifications." And for anybody with even a...

A media watchdog group blasted Newsweek for its initial refusal to issue a retraction of its report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a Koran down a toilet, and compared Newsweek's journalistic integrity to that of CBS News during the National Guard controversy. "Newsweek is guilty of pushing a false story they knew was unconfirmed but wanted to believe was true, and this time the result was tragic," said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell. "The Newsweek story is the same CBS/National Guard 'gotcha' journalism story all over again, only this time with riots and deaths as the deeply...

Fairness, impartiality and objectivity are the essence of public service broadcast journalism. This understanding is enshrined in the BBC’s charter and provides a key justification for the licence fee. Now, however, an explosive insider’s account threatens to blow this cosy assumption clean out of the water as a fraud upon the public. Robin Aitken, who spent his entire career as a BBC journalist, has written a book accusing the BBC of institutionalised leftism. This is by no means the first time such an accusation has been levelled, but generally such critics have been dismissed as parti-pris. This is why Aitken’s...

First it was CBS News fabricating a story out of whole cloth in its discredited "60 Minutes" report on George W. Bush's Air National Guard record in Texas. Two weeks ago, liberals-for-hire journalists Michael Isikoff and John Barry belched up a poorly sourced and dubious report that a copy of the Koran was flushed down an apocryphal toilet during interrogation of Muslim prisoners held at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay. Only this time the repercussions abroad have caused Muslims to riot in the streets of Kabul, leading to the deaths of about 15 people, and resulted in strained relationships...

Those worried the St. Louis Post-Dispatch would abandon its reliably liberal Democratic slant under new ownership can rest easy, according to the purchase agreement mailed to Pulitzer shareholders. Lee Enterprises Inc. agreed to purchase the company for $1.46 billion with a promise to maintain its editorial policies for at least the next five years, according to documents to Pulitzer shareholders Friday. "For a period of at least five years following the Effective Time, Parent (Lee Enterprises) will cause the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to maintain its current name and editorial page platform statement and to maintain its news and editorial headquarters...

The raging battle taking place between the governing Republican Party and the out-of-power Democrats is something to be expected. What is not so easily dealt with are the attacks from the rear, from a Fifth Column allied with the Democrats which controls a large amount of the information made available to the public -– the mainstream media, which have all but abandoned any pretense of being an unbiased source of the news. In recent days there has been a series of examples of the media’s propagandizing on behalf of the Democrats.

As the church's period of mourning for Pope John Paul II comes to a close and the election of a successor is complete, media analysts can begin to get a full picture of how this historic and influential papacy was covered. The late Pope John Paul II received positive, praise-filled media coverage after his death, according to the Media Research Center. While he led the church, however, the slant of news coverage varied depending on the issue in question. While one of the most widely reported of Pope John Paul II's accomplishments for the past three weeks has been his...

NEW YORK TIMES writer Alessandra Stanley is set to kick NBC's TODAY show host Katie Couric when she is down -- kick her hard! Facing audience erosion, Couric "has grown downright scary: America's girl next door has morphed into the mercurial diva down the hall. At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights," Stanley is planing to smack in Monday editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE. NBC has turned TODAY and Couric "into a Marxist-style cult of personality. The camera fixates on Couric's legs during interviews, she performs in...

The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff's credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number. DeLay's expenses during the same trip for food, phone calls and other items at a golf course hotel in Scotland were billed to a different credit card also used on the trip by a second registered Washington lobbyist, Edwin...

Is the new pope, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic? Judging from the response of the mainlining media, stuffed with graduates of the Goebbels School of Public Journalism, the answer must be a resounding, "We're afraid so." In reality, Joseph Goebbels would probably blush at the propaganda techniques employed on a day-to-day basis by most of America's self-proclaimed "mainline" news outlets. News in America today is less concerned with reporting and explaining the day's events than it has ever been. That's because it is more concerned today than it has ever been with bullying public opinion into support for its plethora...

Covering a big story, live, is hard, and journalists will make mistakes. When Christiane Amanpour of CNN described John Paul II in the hours after his death as "the first non-Catholic to be elected pope in more than 455 years," she provided some much-needed levity to the day. Nobody will hold it against her. What is more problematic is the media's unconscious tendentiousness in describing the teachings of this pope and his Church. The Pope, nearly everyone said, was a complex man: He was progressive on economics, war, and the death penalty, yet took doctrinaire and divisive positions on moral...

The late Pope John Paul II is allegedly getting the so-called "Reagan treatment" and the liberal media do not like it any more than they liked Ronald Reagan. "Many critics argue that the media are doing now what they did when former President Ronald Reagan died in June: reducing a deeply controversial figure to a warm, grandfatherly caricature," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. One critic peddled the current - and dubious - media line that the pope was out step with members of the Church in the West. "This is a church with declining priests, with declining nuns, with declining...

I awoke Sunday morning wanting to know what was happening in the Terri Schiavo saga, and here’s what one of the major news services had to say: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush cut short a holiday to return to Washington and be ready to sign a bill that may keep a brain-damaged woman alive in a case pitting Christian conservatives against right-to-die activists.That sentence is just one of dozens of examples you can find almost daily of what’s wrong with the press. First of all, it is inaccurate. The notion that Christian Conservatives are the only ones on one side...

A Columbia School of Journalism study released Monday found that the media took it easy on Sen. John Kerry throughout the 2004 presidential campaign, with coverage of President Bush coming out three times more negative. The school's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 36 percent of reports on Bush painted him in an unfavorable light, while only 12 percent did the same to Kerry - according to Reuters. The Massachusetts liberal also benefited more from positive coverage, garnering 50 percent more stories rated as favorable than Bush. The Project for Excellence in Journalism monitored 16 newspapers across the country,...

Was Saddam Hussein hiding in an underground bunker when he was captured, or was he caught in a house? The Pentagon is flatly denying a report claiming the U.S. military fabricated the details of how the deposed Iraqi dictator was captured, allegedly staging the "spider hole" scenario. "It's not true, period," Pentagon spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin told WorldNetDaily. She was referring to a story originally published by the Saudi newspaper al-Medina, and picked up by United Press International, which had quotes from someone identified as Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, a former Marine who is said to have participated in the capture...

In his new book, "Taking Heat," former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer turns the tables on the media he battled for four long years, blasting mainstream reporters by name for their liberal bias and inaccurate reports. And judging from the early reviews, the press doesn't like it one bit. Calling Fleischer's tome "tedious and tendentious," New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani complains that he "takes a lot of potshots at the press [including The New York Times]," adding that "Taking Heat" - "reads like the very embodiment of the administration's disciplined, corporate-style message control." "Full of excerpts from Mr....