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Trying Too Hard for Balance, FNC Equates Israeli Security Measures Wit
Last week, I documented here the way CNN leaned over backwards for balance in a story. In the wake of the Seattle Jewish Center shooting, it equated the fear of Jewish-Americans of similar incidents . . . with the fear of Hezbollah supporters of being unfairly accused.Although it wasn't nearly so egregious, Fox News Channel's Anita Vogel [seen here in a file photo] just engaged in some over-…
NBC Reporter Predicts $3.50 Price Tag for Gas Following BP Pipeline Tr
But other oil experts, noting gas has gone up only one penny in three weeks, see prices going up less dramatically.
'Three Texas Men': Today Doesn't Disclose Mackinac Suspects Are Arab-A
Maruan Awad Muhareb. Adham Abdelhamid Othman. Louai Abdelhamied Othman. Now you know the names of the three men arrested over the weekend, suspected in a plot to blow up the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas. You wouldn't have known either their names or backgrounds had you relied on the Today show this morning for the information. According to the wife of…
Hangin' in the Hamptons? Krugman, Herbert Hum Same Terror-Exploitation
Were New York Times columnists Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert hangin' in the Hamptons this weekend? Exchanging ideas at a chic cocktail party with ocean views? You might think so, judging by their columns this morning in which they sound such similar themes. Compare Krugman: "The Bush administration and its allies in Congress saw the terrorist threat not as a problem to be solved, but as a…