http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_newshour This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Newshour en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310006 On <em>The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer</em>, Mark Shields asserted that Sen. John McCain "emphasized a lot of places of disagreement" with President Bush during his March 26 foreign policy speech, including "the sense of communality and collegiality among nations, reaching to the allies." But neither Shields nor the others in the discussion noted any of the highly critical statements McCain made about U.S. allies who opposed the Iraq war. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310006 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:37:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200707090003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707090003 Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:09:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705180002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705180002 Fri, 18 May 2007 13:12:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705110012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705110012 Fri, 11 May 2007 19:58:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705100002 PBS' <em>The</em> <em>NewsHour with Jim Lehrer </em>hosted a segment on grassroots groups seeking to influence Iraq policy that included conservative radio host and Move America Forward chairman Melanie Morgan, whose history of false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims regarding the Iraq war went unmentioned during the segment, as did her numerous smears. http://mediamatters.org/items/200705100002 Wed, 9 May 2007 20:18:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701180017 In recent interviews with President Bush, Jim Lehrer and Scott Pelley did not challenge several false or misleading claims that President Bush made about Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200701180017 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:24:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701120006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701120006 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:38:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030014 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030014 Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:48:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611100003 Contrary to Karl Rove's pre-election assertions -- which the media accorded significance despited his presumable responsibility to express optimism -- Democrats won control of both houses of Congress. This raises the question of whether the media were wrong in treating Rove's optimistic predictions as anything more than a job requirement. http://mediamatters.org/items/200611100003 Thu, 9 Nov 2006 20:10:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190008 PBS <em>NewsHour</em> host Jim Lehrer reported without challenge or rebuttal that White House senior political adviser Karl Rove "dismissed Democrats' chances of winning control of Congress." MSNBC's David Shuster similarly reported without challenge that Rove "remain[s] very calm and optimistic about the election." But as CNN's Wolf Blitzer noted, Rove "ha[s] to say that." http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190008 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:54:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200609180008 PBS' <em>NewsHour</em> host Jim Lehrer allowed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to mischaracterize a letter to Congress by five top uniformed military lawyers. Frist suggested that the letter supports the Bush administration's proposed legislation regarding the interrogation and trial of terrorism suspects. However, Lehrer did not mention that the letter addresses only certain provisions of Bush's plan, not the entire bill, and that the military lawyers reportedly refused to sign a letter endorsing Bush's entire bill. Lehrer also allowed Frist to misrepresent comments Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid made in a <em>NewsHour</em> interview the previous night. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609180008 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:43:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607170004 Stephen Moore asserted that "a lot of the new [tax] revenue is coming from rich people," and then asked rhetorically, "if [Bush's tax cut] was a big tax cut for the rich, why are the rich paying more taxes than ever?" In fact, filers earning at least $200,000 paid less federal income tax in 2004 on average than they did in 2002. http://mediamatters.org/items/200607170004 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:39:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260017 In their reporting on the conviction of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling on fraud and conspiracy charges, the network news programs all failed to mention the ties between the fallen corporation and President Bush. Further, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> ran six separate articles on the Enron verdicts on May 26, but not a single one noted Bush's connection to Enron and, in particular, his close personal and political ties to Lay. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260017 Fri, 26 May 2006 18:41:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250007 In a segment on Al Gore's global warming campaign, PBS' Gwen Ifill noted that "critics have called Gore 'alarmist,' " before airing a clip of an ad produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which she identified only as a "Washington think tank." But Ifill did not mention that CEI is a conservative institution largely funded by the energy industry, which has a financial stake in opposing policies that seek to combat climate change. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250007 Thu, 25 May 2006 13:37:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605090010 On PBS' <em>The NewsHour</em>, host Jim Lehrer failed to challenge Rep. Heather Wilson's (R-NM) misleading assertions regarding the Bush administration's warrantless domestic wiretapping program and CIA director nominee Gen. Michael V. Hayden, an architect of the program and one of the administration's point people in defending it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605090010 Tue, 9 May 2006 17:30:15 EST