Today It's Reuters' Turn to Bash the Economy

As reported here yesterday, the Associated Press thoroughly misrepresented and understated better than expected inflation data that was released by the Labor Department. Today, Reuters botched a report released by the Commerce Department concerning retail sales:“U.S. retail sales dropped by a larger-than-expected 2.1 percent in August, the sharpest drop in almost four years, after car purchases…
Noel Sheppard
 

CBS Legal Analyst Annoyed by Roberts

Ken Shepherd
 

Google Enters Blog Search Wars

The crowded blog search space may soon contract now that Google has debuted its Blog Search service. Like competing services Technorati, Feedster, Blogpulse, and Ice Rocket, the database relies on site notification rather than crawling. Like Feedster and Ice Rocket, Google's index uses RSS feeds as its data source. Google's entry is still beta quality but in some informal testing, I found it…
Matthew Sheffield
 

CNN Anchor Accidentally Calls Ambassador 'Michael Bolton

In a report on the United Nations summit during the 1pm hour of CNN’s Live From, anchor Kyra Phillips confused the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, with another well-known Bolton:Kyra Phillips: "Now, I've seen Michael Bolton sitting behind the President. Obviously not now, we're looking at different live pictures. Are we going to hear from him? Or have we heard from him?"Richard Roth: "…
Megan McCormack
 

Are The Washington Post and The New York Times Practicing Collusion

Mark Tapscott
 

A Flood of Katrina Insurance Coverage

BMI Staff
 

The Price of Recovery

When prices rise, it helps get resources to the places theyre needed most.
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.
 

Broken Levees or Overtopped Ones

Greg Sheffield
 

Weekly Standard's Caldwell: Bias-Fighting An "Irrelevancy" After

Tim Graham
 

Only Republican Groups Get Controversial No-Bid Contracts

Clay Waters
 

Gloria Borger's CBS Recap of Roberts Testimony

Ken Shepherd
 

Tim Russert Makes Democrat Tim Kaine's Day in Virginia Debate

Tim Graham
 

Reuters' Distortion and CNN's Drama

Mike Russell
 

NY Times's Dowd Revels in New Orleans Fatalities

There were some gruesome findings yesterday in New Orleans. Some were discovered in a hospital. Others in a nursing home. Yet, this didn’t stop New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from continuing her bitter evisceration of our president. No, not a moment’s mourning for this crusader. Not a second to consider the innocents that were lost in these medical facilities, or…
Noel Sheppard