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Memo to Media: Gas Prices Still Far from All-time High
NYT is one of few to admit record isnt really a record.
New York Times: Standing on Principle or spoiling for a high profile f
While Eleanor Clift is heralding Judith Miller as a principled journalist taking a fall to cover for an possibly criminal secret source in her recent column in Newsweek, Howard Kurtz in today’s Washington Post reports that many legal experts believe that Miller’s jail time is the product of her and the New York Times’s stubborness, not a stand on journalistic principle but rather, in the words of…
Rove dominated Inside Politics coverage
A quick by the numbers look at Rove coverage on Inside Politics today:
Out of 14 segments on IP, nine were devoted to the Karl Rove/CIA leak story:
No pressing Leahy on his liberal litmus test
Yesterday on CNN's Inside Politics, host du jour Candy Crowley essentially got Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to confess his litmus test on abortion for Supreme Court nominees, but didn't press him on the matter, despite her colleague Bill Schneider last week asserting that only conservatives, not liberals, have a litmus test stance on abortion.
NBC On Auto Pilot Backs Union, Ignores Carmaker
News show relies on UAW president, former autoworker and labor expert to tell a one-sided business story.
Accuracy on Leave from ABC
Network paints business-law reformers as eager to take parents away from sick kids.
Early Show ignores good news
The Early Show once again ignored the release of a positive economic report. The NFP (Nonfarm Payroll) numbers showed decent gains for June and healthy revisions up for both April and May. After the numbers came out, TES still had time for six stories, including one about a family with a new set of identical triplets to add to their identical twins. At least TES didn't accuse the Bush…
Jobs Report Positive; News Reports Negative
NYT and Reuters frame positive news negatively, while others provide mixed reports or no report at all.
Couric Parrots Clinton Swipe at Bush Security Budget
Today show co-host Katie Couric concluding an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about his agency's response to the London bombings yesterday departed from the apolitical, unbiased questions she'd been asking to showcase Senator Hillary Clinton's criticism of the Bush administration's budgeting for railway security.