Bob McCarty Writes

As one who scooped The New York Times by 100 days on a pretty serious story back in April, I really appreciate the latest effort put forth by muckraker James O’Keefe and Project Veritas to expose media bias at the “Old Gray Lady.” In the video above, a New York Times consultant and a New [...]

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Scott Pelley will take over the “CBS Evening News” anchor chair from Katie Couric, effective June 6, according to a story published on the network’s web site, but that’s no cause for excitement. Contrary to glowing comments made about the veteran reporter by CBS executives, the truth about Pelley’s biased reporting is quite disturbing. One [...]

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WARNING: To ensure you realize you’re not in the middle of a bad dream, pinch yourself before watching the Breitbart.com video below. Every thinking American knows the 111th Congress was, perhaps, the worst — definitely not the “most productive” — Congress in this nation’s history as news anchors nationwide might have us believe. The new [...]

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I just finished a 10-minute interview with Jeff Horwich, a reporter with American Public Media’s “Marketplace“, a program carried on more than 500 public radio stations across the country. Asked questions about the recently-released consumer confidence numbers and the relationship between those numbers being down and the news media’s reporting on the economy, I focused [...]

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The differences between news reports on the recent massacre of hundreds in Nigeria are stark. Listening to St. Louis’ KMOX-AM 1120 this morning, I heard the CBS Radio News report about about some 200 people being killed in “sectarian violence” during the past few days had left at least 200 dead in Nigeria.  Conversely, Australia’s [...]

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Thanks to contributors David Donar at Political Graffiti, Curtis D. Tucker at Curtoons.com and “Michael” at the now-defunct My Personal Litmus blog, I was able to share a great number of fantastic editorial cartoons.  Below, I share the second five of my Top 10 favorites of 2009 in no particular order.  Click on any image [...]

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High noon showdowns took place at some 100 locations around the country Saturday as conservatives and anti-socialism Americans gathered for “Can You Hear Me Now” rallies focusing attention on mainstream news media outlets’ blatant bias and consistent failure to report both sides of important news stories. The video below shows how KSDK, the NBC affiliate [...]

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