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Granted, the coverage of the Duke rape matter on this morning's "Today" was heavily skeptical of the prosecutor's case. And yes, host Alison Stewart did preface her remark by suggesting that she "play devil's advocate here." Even so, it's hard to see any journalistic justification for a scurrilous suggestion Stewart made. Speaking with NBC legal analyst Susan Filan, Stewart said: "Why would she change her story at this point? She told doctors, nurses and police that she had been raped. Yet now she says she doesn't remember. Could someone have gotten to this woman?"View video of Stewart's suggestion here.Filan...

by Mark Finkelstein September 12, 2006 - 16:17 Latest dispatch from the MSM moral-relativism front. MSNBC's Tony Maciulis appeared on the network's 'The Most' show this afternoon to report on a story dealing with Craigslist, the online classifed ad website. A man called Jason Fortuny had posted a fake personal on the Craigslist's Seattle page, posing as an attractive 27-year old woman seeking sex with men. The ad elicited numerous replies, many including explicit photos of the suitors. Fortuny in turn posted the men's replies, including the photos, on another website, no doubt causing embarrassment if not more for many...

by Mark Finkelstein July 31, 2006 - 16:02 NBC reporter Richard Engel sure has some severely selective sources. On the one hand, he's overflowing with information reinforcing the image of Hezbollah as a kindly humanitarian organization that was providing "supplies and relief" to the residents of Qana. On the other hand, he has "no evidence" that Hezbollah was using Qana residents as human shields for purposes of launching rockets. Engel reported live from Tyre in southern Lebanon during this afternoon's 'The Most' on MSNBC, with host Alison Stewart. Speaking of events in Qana, Engel claimed: "I got no indication [the...

We depart today from the usual format of the DUmmie FUnnies to bring you this SPECIAL REPORT. It now appears that the future of the Earth is at risk, not due to Global Warming, but because of an imminent invasion of space aliens from the planet Vulcan. It is my contention that the sentinel of this Vulcan invasion force is Alison Stewart, the host of MSNBC's The Most which airs from 3 to 4 P.M. EDT on weekdays. In case you think I have gone completely off my rocker, I submit the two candid photos of Ms Stewart above....

by Mark Finkelstein March 28, 2006 Keith Olbermann might be on vacation, but that doesn't mean MSNBC's mean-spiritedness took a day off. If guest host Alison Stewart was auditioning for the Olbermann seat, she might well have ingratiated herself with her MSNBC bosses by the nastiness she doled out on the day of Caspar Weinberger's death. Weinberger passed away today at age 88. He had served as President Reagan's Secretary of Defense. As Bloomberg News put it: "Weinberger . . . oversaw the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan that helped hasten the Soviet Union's collapse." Stewart managed to...