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Early Show Provides Selective Snippets from "Domestic Spying" Hearing
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee for most of the day, yesterday, explaining in some detail why the NSA Terrorist Surveillance program is legal, why it's necessary, and why it is not "domestic spying." It was the lead news story on CBS' The Early Show this morning, and they demonstrated that, while they saw it, it didn't all meet their…
Networks Cite Imaginary “Cuts” as Federal Budget Continues to Soar
Federal spending has soared 33 percent since 2001 and will continue to surge under President Bush’s budget proposal released Monday afternoon, yet network reporters referred to imaginary “cuts” in programs and departments. On World News Tonight, ABC’s Martha Raddatz outlined Bush’s proposal to increase defense and homeland security spending before she asked: “How to pay for all this? There are…
Look, Ma Bell, No Competition
CBS sees resurrection of telephone monopoly and bills going up, while other networks give free-market perspective that competition can lower bills.
Broadcasters Ignore or Distort Solid Job Report
ABC and CBS ignore 4 1/2-year unemployment low of 4.7 percent while CNN finds results mixed at best.
AP’s Betty Friedan Obituary Whitewashes Her Known Communist Roots
In her obituary following the death of Betty Friedan this past Saturday, AP National Writer Hillel Italie summarized Friedan's first and most influential book, "The Feminine Mystique," in these terms:
Few books have so profoundly changed so many lives as did Friedan's 1963 best seller. Her assertion that a woman needed more than a husband and children was a radical break from the Eisenhower era…