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The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 2 to September
September 8th, 2006 3:16 PM
Look no further than NewsBusters for complete coverage of Katie Couric’s debut as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." The MRC’s Brent Baker began the week by noting a previous Couric claim that she’s not biased, but Fox is. Additionally, the new anchor has hired liberal Douglas Brinkley as the show’s historian. On September 5, Couric appeared on "The Early Show," only to apparently forget the…
The Beeb Who Cried Wolf
September 6th, 2006 1:37 PM
Last month, bloggers
(including NB's Bob
Owens), caught the BBC flat-out admitting its complicity in a
staged photo shoot with a Lebanese boy posing next to what the
broadcast said was an "Israeli bomb lying unexploded" in someone's
living room.
Admitting to participating in news manipulation was bad enough and
doing it while endangering a child was even worse. Further compounding
things,…
BBC Once Again Declines to Disclose Religious Background of Terrorist
September 5th, 2006 1:42 PM
First it was "asian men" behind the plot to blow up British airlines headed for America, now it seems "men under the age of 30"
were plotting terrorist attacks in Denmark, at least according to the
BBC where informing readers of the religious identity of fanatical
Muslims seems to be taboo.Danish police have arrested nine suspected terrorists, the country's security intelligence service says.The…