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Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When It's Rising
Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed.
Networks That Praise Gates, Bashed Oil Firms
Same media outlets that attacked oil companies for success compliment Microsoft, a more profitable corporation.
Keith and the Cover
Staring hard at the forthcoming cover of Olbermann's book "The Worst Person in the World," doesn't it appear, oh so poetically, that the cover seems to be applying that honor to Olbermann himself?
Ifill Chastises 'Excessive' Security for Bush in Baghdad; Totenberg: T
Friday night PBS chat shows delivered a couple of slams from journalists at President Bush over his surprise trip to Baghdad early this week. After Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, who accompanied the President’s entourage, described some of the security precautions taken, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill cited “excessive security” as she derided the trip: “I wonder to what degree anybody in the…
Weekend Captionfest
Original Reuters caption: "Journalists put on their bullet-proof vests aboard Air Force One before
touching down with U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad for a
surprise visit June 13, 2006."
CNN Practicing Checkbook Journalism
According to Drudge, the checkbook journalism practiced by People Magazine extended to another Time Warner property; Anderson Cooper. There's loud chatter among industry insiders that the $4 million deal PEOPLE Mag's editor Larry Hackett cut with Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt for their baby pictures extended to CNN, also part of the TIME WARNER family. A rep for CNN denies any TIMEWARNER deal…
NBC's 'Today' Show: Secrecy on Bush Trip Added 'Dramatic Effect
In the past week, President Bush has visited Iraq, had his top political operative cleared of wrongdoing, and presided over the elimination of the terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. NBC’s Today show took note of this fact and the June 16 edition featured a segment on Bush’s upturn in fortunes. But if conservatives expected the media to be happy about Bush’s "good week," they were sadly…