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June has been a month of new lows for the media and the president they worship. Exhibit a) ABC, which should stand for Ashamed Broadcasting Company, gave Rielle Hunter not one but three prime promotional opportunities. Hunter, of course, is the woman who ...

  Executive Summary The media often talk about left-wing billionaire George Soros – especially his investments and his charity work. But those same news stories seldom give a complete picture of the man behind many of the liberal or “progressive” organiza ...

See Executive Summary The Obama administration is trying its best to ram a health care reform bill through Congress by July 31. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced on July 16 that he hopes to see a Senate bill passed before recess begins ...

See Full Report President Barack Obama wants a health care reform plan by August and the news media are doing their part to make it happen. ABC, CBS and NBC have boosted the administration’s case with sad stories about children without medical care and ca ...

Media Seek Silver Linings in Economic Storm Clouds  Despite worrisome economic news the mainstream media continue to shield Obama from the economy. From early in his presidency when journalists searched for green shoots to promote economic optimism to the ...

Journalists Still Hiding Obamas Broken Promises on Jobs The White House made many claims about what the stimulus package would accomplish, including 2.7 million to 3.6 million private-sector jobs. So far, they are 5.3 million jobs short. But the news medi ...

Journalists Still Hiding Obamas Broken Promises on Jobs The White House made many claims about what the stimulus package would accomplish, including 2.7 million to 3.6 million private-sector jobs. So far, they are 5.3 million jobs short. 16,000 Birthday W ...

Media's Latest Stimulus Push: Spend Now, Tax Later Krugman's 'third depression' declaration sets stage for more stimulus, paid for by proposals of a gas tax, value-added tax, national sales tax and rollback of Bush tax cuts. Facing Fac ...

Obama Wants $50 Billion more for Stimulus, Networks Nearly Silent Is soccer more important to American taxpayers than President Obamas latest push for a $50 billion state bailout? It was to the broadcast networks, which devoted 38 times as much coverage t ...

Media Favor Regulation, Barely Notice Failures of Regulators From the government's 'cozy' relationship with BP, to the SEC's failure to catch Madoff, to the structure of mining regulation; networks attack businesses, but not regulators ...

The Untold Story of Astroturf: Corporate-Sponsored Environmentalism According to the news media, grassroots activism and protests are patriotic unless they are conservative. The media have characterized conservative Tea Party protests as phony grassroots ...

Earth Day Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science   For years the global warming alarmists mantra has been the science is settled. But a recent series of shocking disclosures about climate science has shaken the ...

Networks Fail to Report VAT Tax Since Volcker Call for Tax Increases  As taxpayers rush to beat the IRS deadline, a new tax is rumored to be coming down the road. White House adviser Paul Volcker said on April 6 that value-added taxes are 'not as tox ...

CNN Still Hungry for Food Rules, Eats Up Oliver's Call for Billions for School Lunch 'Revolution'  Cable network continues its pro-regulation, pro-government obesity reporting with extreme examples including a 250-pound 12-year-old, lack of ...

Obama Signs Business-Hurting, Tax Pledge-Breaking Health Care Bill into Law In month leading to bill's passage, network evening shows failed to expose job-threatening tax increases or remind viewers of president's 'firm' promise to tax ...