News Analysis Division

CNN's Sanchez Hesitant to Blame Left for Discovery Channel Terrorist, 'Most' Say He Went Too Far

CNN's Rick Sanchez, who was quick to blame Fox News for the 2009 murders of three police officers, treaded much more carefully on Wednesday's Rick's List as he covered the eco-terrorist who ...

Miracle on West 57th: CBS Ties Lee to Gore and Quotes Assessment of Bush as 'Intelligent'

Wednesday's CBS Evening News, without Katie Couric, uniquely amongst the broadcast network evening newscasts tied Discovery Channel hostage-taker/bomber James Lee to Al Gore and, even more ...

Newsweek's Alter: 'Radical Republicans' Have 'Extreme Agenda,' Progressives 'Need to Learn What the Stakes Are'

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter repeatedly characterized the conservative wing of the Republican party as "radical" and "extreme." He went ...

CBS's Smith Excuses Obama For Not Crediting Bush With Iraq Troop Surge

On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith served as an apologist for President Obama, who failed to credit President George W. Bush with the Iraq troop surge in an Oval Office address ...

NBC's Matt Lauer Repeatedly Presses Joe Biden on Iraq War: Was It Worth It?

NBC's Matt Lauer wanted one question to stick in the minds of his Today show viewers, as from the top of Wednesday's show, to his interview with Vice President Joe Biden, the Today co-anchor ...

On MSNBC, an Incensed Maddow Howls Over Obama's Kind Words for George W. Bush

President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the "combat mission" in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. ...

Five of Six Networks Press Unyielding Gibbs on Crediting Bush

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of the six broadcast and cable morning news shows on Tuesday morning to help set the table for the President's speech marking the end of ...

NBC's Engel Dumps On Iraq War, Claims Hussein Was Becoming More 'Moderate'

On the day that the U.S. is ending combat operations in Iraq, the Today show, on Tuesday, brought on their chief foreign correspondent to essentially say the Iraq war wasn't worth it.

NBC Re-Runs Obama's Retort on Religion and Citizenship, Williams Touts It 'Has Already Ricocheted Around the World'

On Sunday night, Brian Williams despaired "you're an American-born Christian. And yet, significant numbers of Americans...are claiming you are neither." Barack Obama responded: "I can't spend all ...

Brian Williams: From Musketeer to Mousketeer

NBC's evening anchor shows a dramatic contrast in interviewing presidents on Katrina: Bush was bullied as a racist, but Obama was treated like a statesman offering wisdom.
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