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CNN’s Cafferty Laments George Allen’s Lead in Polls; Attacks His C
Jack Cafferty, the CNN host of "The Cafferty File" segment of "The Situation Room," Tuesday asserted that Virginia Senator George Allen doesn’t "have much" character and lamented the fact that Allen is leading his opponent in the polls. He derided a new advertisement by Allen that calls for voters to focus on his stand on the issues: Cafferty: "Allen doesn’t want voters to focus on his character…
Networks Overlook 810,000 New Jobs
Weekend news reports leave out huge revision to employment numbers.
Washington Post/ABC News Poll Tremendously Skews Democrat Respondents
David Broder and Dan Balz wrote a rather lengthy, front-page story for the Washington Post this morning with the cautionary headline “Poll Shows Strong Shift Of Support to Democrats.” However, Broder and Balz chose not to share some key information from this poll with their readers, the most important of which being the political breakdown of those questioned. In fact, the meager percentage of…
Business Sense in Short Supply at ABC
ABC anchor Charles Gibson doesn't have much of a nose for business it appears. In an interview with Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Gail Shister, he asserts that if the broadcast networks stopped running advertisements for products that target older viewers (denture cleaners, medication, etc.) and started running ads for products younger viewers like (cars, vacations, etc.) the younger folks…
ABC Blows Smoke at Audience on Tobacco-on-Film Study
Reporter Nauert left out any critique of study by anti-tobacco advocates who call for R-ratings
Open Thread
Today's starter: Is it possible that the Foley story was supposed to break closer to the election than it did?
Newspapers Nuke Bush, China on Handling of North Korea
Everybody's got an opinion about what should've been done, and what needs to be done, about North Korea's nuclear weapons tests - especially, newspapers. An article by Susan Jones of CNSNews.com recaps how papers are blaming Bush and China, and providing foreign affairs advice about how to defuse the situation.