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Olbermann Raises George Orwell and Wonders If Bush is Now a “Would-B
With an “Uncle Sam Is Watching You” graphic on screen, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opened Friday night's Countdown by exaggerating the threat of the federal request for Google records to check the exposure of pornography to children and, of course, the NSA “spying”policy. “If you Googled it, the government wants to know about it,” Olbermann warned, “and if you made a phone call or sent an e-mail…
Ted Koppel Heading to NPR, Sounds Off About Network News Outlets
The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah McBride wrote an article in today’s edition addressing the increasing number of network news “stars” leaving television to become a part of National Public Radio. In an environment where ratings for most news programs are declining, and newspapers across the country are reducing staffs amid shrinking circulations, NPR’s audience is continuing to grow. As a result,…
Major Newspapers Ignore Low Jobless Numbers
Papers that hyped five-year high inflation ignored economists citing a strong job market.
CNN Spends 2005 Telling People Theyre Going Backwards
Despite monthly wage increases, network says inflation is destroying the middle class.
CNN's Cafferty Sees Conspiracy Helpful to Bush Behind Timing of Osama
Just before reading e-mailed responses to his “Cafferty Files” question of the 4pm EST hour on Thursday afternoon's The Situation Room on CNN, “How important is the new Osama bin Laden tape?", Jack Cafferty proposed a conspiracy existed in the timing, one meant to help Bush justify his NSA wiretapping: “The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before the 2004 presidential…