Economy

Is The Ford Motor Company committing an Old-Media-assisted suicide? On Wednesday, One News Now had a story about how the Formerly Mainstream Media has largely ignored the negative impact the the American Family Association's boycott of Ford has had on the company (an audio version of the report is also at the link): News media ignoring Ford boycott, media analyst says

In late February and early March, Alan Greenspan's musing and odds-making on whether the US economy would go into a recession later this year was all the rage in the Formerly Mainstream Media. Here's how Craig Torres of Bloomberg News started out his March 7 report carried in the Washington Post: 'One-Third Probability' in '07, Former Fed Chief Says Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan…

Of course there were many other newsmaking events this week, but the relatively silent treatment this story received from Old Media is still not a surprise (the link is to a story at a trade publication's web site; very few papers had a related story written by the Associated Press): Maryland Abandons ‘Fair Share’ Health Care Fight

Mother Nature must have a wicked sense of humor. She forced ABC's Sam Champion to report on anti-global warming initiative . . . . while standing in a field of snow in late April.Champion was there as part of Good Morning America's "Planet Earth 2007" segment, in which reporters chimed in from around the globe on various environmental initiatives. Diane Sawyer [badly alarmed by a warm spell…

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Real Earnings News Release yesterday: Average weekly earnings rose by 4.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, from March 2006 to March 2007. After deflation by the CPI-W, average weekly earnings increased by 1.6 percent. And here's one for Paul "the rich are getting it all" Krugman of the New York Times -- Note who is being surveyed when these numbers are…

Starbucks. Many Americans may think the Seattle-based coffee chain is generally well-liked by its employees and generally well-liked by liberals, but to some left-wing organizers, it's the new Wal-Mart. Sooner or later the Washington Post was going to notice. And so today's paper splashed its Style section cover page with a David Segal story about Daniel Gross, a "scruffy college grad" that…

Agence France Presse has published a whopper about Global Warming, titled "Climate refugees -- the growing army without a name", in which we get the claims of a UN Climate Committee that "50 million" will be homeless because of Global Warming "by 2010". But the report is so filled with could be's, might be's and the ever popular "some experts say" that it is hard to take the claims seriously. It…

The great William F. Buckley, Jr. once famously said that he "would rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the Harvard faculty." The National Review founder might well feel the same about the elected officials of Harvard's home of Cambridge, Massachusetts. For as described in a Boston Globe editorial of this morning, How green was my city?, Cambridge's…

UPDATE (14:18 EDT): See bottom of post. The front-page teaser headline for today's front page Washington Post article on the Supreme Court's CO2 ruling (emphases below are mine):Court: EPA Violated Clean Air ActSupreme Court rebukes Bush administration for refusing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.The link takes readers to today's front page article by Robert Barnes and Juliet Eilperin, "…