Early Show "Balances" Dave Price's Iraq Coverage; Hypes Zarqawi Effect

Michael Rule
 

Media Attack Executive Pay, Hide Effort to Seal Their Own Compensation

Networks focus on ‘staggering’ pay and pensions for Exxon and other corporate CEOs, even as media companies fight SEC rule on disclosing high salaries.Free Market ProjectGas price rage has blended with executive pay rage recently, since the media have been bashing ExxonMobil’s departing CEO, Lee Raymond, for his pay and pension package. “Runaway pay,” said NBC’s Brian Williams on April 20,…
Noel Sheppard
 

ABC's Yellin Pushes Liberal Group's Anti-Tony Snow Talking Points

All three broadcast morning shows this morning noted President Bush’s choice of Tony Snow as new White House press secretary, but only ABC’s Good Morning America saw the need to parrot from the thin list of anti-Bush quotes from Snow’s columns being passed around by the liberal Center for American Progress (although reporter Jessica Yellin presented the quotes as if they were the result of her…
Rich Noyes
 

NY Times Editor Bill Keller: Bush Administration Declaring War on Demo

Clay Waters
 

Drudge: 'Progressive' Media Stalls

Greg Sheffield
 

Is the Death Penalty Unconstitutional? The New York Times Thinks So

Clay Waters
 

Attacking Executive Pay While Shielding Courics of the World

BMI Staff
 

Should We Worry About China-U.S. Trade

Should We Worry About China-U.S. Trade?
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.
 

Media Again Ignore Consumer Confidence Highs

Networks leave out good news that high gas prices arent hurting confidence in the economy.
Ken Shepherd
 

NPR's "Fresh Air" Offers Puffy Platform for Bush-Bashing "Dreamz" Dire

Tim Graham
 

Tony Snow Blog Roundup

President Bush announced today that radio host Tony Snow will become his new press secretary. Here's how the blogosphere is reacting:Dean Esmay: "He's intelligent, well-spoken, and funny. He can even take on a vicious demagogue like Bill Maher and come off looking intelligent and reasonable."Captain's Quarters: "From his years of radio duty, Tony knows how to talk extemporaneously and engage in…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Open Thread: Tony Snow Gets a New Job

Open thread is back. Fill 'er up. Note, Tony Snow items moved to different thread here.
Matthew Sheffield
 

Loose Lips Win Pulitzers

Greg Sheffield
 

Too Little Too Late

The New York Sun has blown a little sunshine up the back end of the St. Petersburg Times with an editorial praising the Times for admitting when they are wrong, in this case about Sami Al-Arian: One of the hallmarks of integrity is the willingness, when one is wrong, to admit it. An admirable example was set by the St. Petersburg Times, a Florida newspaper that had reacted defensively... on the…
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