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CBS Omits Subsidies Behind Rising Corn Demand
Report on agricultural 'gold rush' neglects to explain massive taxpayer funding behind ethanol.
'Evening News' Finds Shareholder Votes on Pay Just Ducky
CBS "Evening News" showcased Aflac CEO Dan Amos on April 29 because the company plans to begin giving shareholders a vote on executive compensation beginning in 2009. While CBS correspondent Mark Strassmann did explain that the shareholders' vote would be non-binding, the premise of the story was that it could create a ripple effect throughout corporate America.
CBS Blogger Doesn't Press Producers Over Tenet/Perle Exchange That Nev
In an April 30 "Public Eye" entry, CBS ombudsblogger Brian Montopoli wrote about CBS's quandary over CIA director George Tenet has a faulty memory regarding an exchange with Richard Perle that supposedly happened the day after 9/11 at the White House. The problem, Perle was stuck in France. He returned to the country on Sept. 15, 2001. So what to do with Web site transcripts of the April 29 "60…
ABC Makes Hooker Headlines, But Scorned Dick Morris Story as 'Nasty Li
On the heels of his award-winning destruction of Congressman Mark Foley over inappropriate instant messages to teenaged House pages, ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross is on the sex beat again. On Monday's Good Morning America, Ross highlighted ABC’s plans to rummage through a D.C. madam’s list of prostitution clients for "people in the Bush administration." But in 1996, when the tabloid…
CBS Praises Aflac CEO for Shareholder Vote on Pay
Report criticizes executive pay packages, laments pending legislation wouldn't help.
Blogger on CNN: You Helped Terrorists' PR Campaign
Over the weekend, blogger Jim Hanson (aka "Uncle Jimbo" at Blackfive) appeared on CNN's "This Week at War" where he asked about how the U.S. military was going to improve its response to the pretty sophisticated usage of the media that Islamic terrorists have begun to develop.Of course, the fact that the terrorists have gotten good at using the media isn't simply a deficiency of the Pentagon. It…
Democrat Presidential Candidate Quoted and Linked to Anti-Semitic Hate
There is another scandal in the making concerning a Democratic presidential candidate’s blog. Longshot candidate Mike Gravel has a BIG problem. On his website, he proudly quoted and linked to a site which posted some online support of Gravel, excitedly announcing, “Meet the next president of the United States of America.” The site is called “Wake Up from Your Slumber.” Sounds nice and netrooty—…
CNN's Wastler Backs $1 Gas Tax Hike
Reporter suggests how to keep government 'In the Money': with $4-a-gallon gas.