New Poll Reflects Media’s Negative Impact on Economic Perceptions
A new poll released Wednesday gave extraordinary evidence as
to how continued negative reports from a bearish media have impacted the public’s
view of the economy.
As reported
by Reuters (emphasis added):
Two-thirds of
those surveyed, 66 percent, said the direction of economic policy was fair or
poor.
Yet, these same
folks are very optimistic about their own economic condition:
ABC Gushes Over Spat Between ‘Popular’ Elizabeth Edwards and Tough
On Wednesday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program actually reported on Elizabeth Edwards’s attack that ‘08 contender Hillary Clinton may not be a strong advocate for women. However, correspondent Claire Shipman managed the feat of somehow turning the story into a positive for both women. She also engaged in the standard media practice of identification bias.Shipman gushed that the spouse of…
AP Ignores Congressman’s Bush is Hitler Remark Until He Apologizes
If you had any questions about the political leanings of the
Associated Press, they were answered Tuesday when the wire service finally
noticed nine days after the fact that a Democrat Congressman had made some
despicable comments about President Bush, Adolf Hitler, and 9/11.
Of course, the AP getting around to this issue when the
Congressman apologized for his deplorable remarks is icing on the…
Nets Bury Elizabeth Edwards 'Behaves Like a Man' Hillary Swipe
Quick -- which is Hillary Clinton's bigger liability as a candidate?:A. She's an insufficiently ardent feminist; orB. Her personality is cold, calculating and unfeminine.If you've been living on Planet Earth since 1992, surely your answer is 'B.' So when Elizabeth Edwards adds fuel to that fire, accusing Hillary of behaving like a man, that is very newsworthy stuff. Unless you're NBC or ABC,…
CBS Uses Democrat Helpers To Explain How Democrats Now 'Get Religion
Monday’s Early Show on CBS picked up on Time magazine’s promotional cover story "How The Democrats Got Religion." Reporter Jeff Glor used two guides to explore how the Democrats would "level the praying field," but didn’t exactly tell viewers that these guides were involved in the drive to help the Democrats. The first expert was Time magazine’s Amy Sullivan, who wrote a "God Gap" essay for the…
CNN/YouTube Special Features Liberal Videos Disproportionately
On Monday night, CNN aired a special hour promoting the upcoming "CNN/YouTube" presidential debates. CNN is encouraging viewers to record their questions for the presidential candidates and post them on YouTube.com. In anticipation of this historic event, hosts John Roberts and Kiran Chetry shared just a few of the thousands of video submissions CNN has already received. Of the videos aired on…
Bill O’Reilly Disgusted ‘JetBlue Would Sponsor Hatemongers Like Da
As NewsBusters reported Monday, Bill O’Reilly
isn’t pleased about airliner JetBlue sponsoring the upcoming convention of Daily
Kos devotees and Democrat presidential candidates referred to by the netroots as YearlyKos.
In fact, Monday’s
“O’Reilly Factor” began with the host observing:
What do you think of someone who says the
following: the world would be better off without him? That…
ABC Grills Edwards With Some Tough Questions; Pitched Softballs to Hil
Appearing on Monday’s special town hall edition of "Good Morning America," 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards endured a much tougher line of questioning from Diane Sawyer than Hillary Clinton received during a similar event in March.
Although Edwards received more air time, 38 minutes to almost 27 minutes, Senator Clinton had the advantage of friendly questions from the audience and a…
Dem Congressman Compares President Bush to Hitler, Media Mum (Updated
A rather disturbing event occurred in a Minnesota library last Sunday: Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) compared President Bush to Adolf Hitler, while implying that the White House was involved in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.Didn’t hear about this? Well, how could you? After all, no major, mainstream media outlet other than Fox News and CNN thought it was newsworthy…
Man Snoozes During John Edwards's ABC Town Hall...Then Vanishes
Did "Good Morning America" physically remove a man who appeared to be dozing off during Democratic Senator John Edwards's town hall meeting on Monday? Early in the 7am hour, the man (pictured at right) appeared to be sleeping, or at least dozing, while Edwards discussed his plan for Iraq.
Around 7:11, the individual, who was seated to the back and right of Edwards, mysteriously disappeared (…
ABC Devotes 64 Minutes to Dem White House Contenders; Zero For GOP
On Monday’s "Good Morning America," ABC devoted 38 minutes of air time to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards in a town hall special. This is in addition to the over 26 minutes they provided fellow ‘08 contender Hillary Clinton back in March. That’s a grand total of 64 minutes of publicity for Democratic candidates and zero for Republicans. Now, to be fair to "Good Morning America,"…
ABCNews Writer Ignores McCain, Biden Ties in Piece Slamming Thompson o
The Left must be afraid of Fred Thompson. The latest attack on the
former Tennessee senator: he's violating the "spirit" of campaign
finance laws by toying with his candidacy for too long, even as he
builds the framework to hit the campaign trail running. Yet
unfortunately for her readers, ABCNews.com's Jennifer Rubin
leaves out the liberal leanings of the two major critics of the former
senator…
