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CBS Again Cites Negative Bush Numbers in Poll Which Under-Represented
In a Thursday CBS Evening News story on how Karl Rove is a “distraction” in the West Wing, Gloria Borger cited how “a new CBS News poll shows that only 39 percent of Americans say that President Bush has more honesty and integrity than most people in public life, down eleven points since early last year.” But that number comes from the same poll, it turns out, that CBS News skewed by weighing it…
Networks Ignore Democrats Defending Racist Slam of Black GOP Senate Ca
Eight days ago, Steve Gilliard, a liberal blogger critical of Lt. Governor Michael Steele (R-MD), a black conservative seeking the Republican senatorial nomination in his state, altered a photograph of the candidate to portray a minstrel in blackface, and accompanied it with the caption, "I's Simple Sambo and I's running for the Big House."[Gilliard has since removed his original artwork, but…
Top Editors Don't Want to Explain Their Free Pass to Democrats for Clo
Closing meetings of public bodies is and should be anathema to journalists and all others who care about the public's right to know and the First Amendment's guarantee of a free press, but journalists hardly uttered a peep when Democrats closed the Senate this week.Normally, journalists are out front in battles to force politicians and bureaucrats at the local and state levels to open their…