Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When It's Rising

Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed.
Noel Sheppard

Networks That Praise Gates, Bashed Oil Firms

Same media outlets that attacked oil companies for success compliment Microsoft, a more profitable corporation.
Ken Shepherd

Chicago Tribune: "How Do You Spell Futility? FEMA

Mike Bates

Dan Rather May Team Up With Cuban (No, Not Castro

Tom Johnson

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?
Tim Graham

LA Times Gone Wild: 'Wrong to Blame Katrina Victims for Spending Irres

Mark Finkelstein

MSNBC: Murtha Is 'Personal Attack' Victim, As Murtha Insults Rove's 'F

Brad Wilmouth

Media Matters Criticism on Global Warming Unjustified

Amy Ridenour

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…
Brent Baker

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."
Matthew Sheffield

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…
Mithridate Ombud

CBS Terrorism Analyst Notes 'Huge Progress' In War On Terror

Michael Rule

WashPost, NY Times Bury al-Qaeda Memo Worrying About U.S. Victory

Tim Graham

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…
Scott Whitlock