Media Fail to Connect Dots on Bailouts

Dan Kennedy

Automakers, Unions Play 'Defense' to Get Bailout

Failing manufacturers claim taxpayer rescue is necessary on national security grounds.
Dan Gainor

Networks Gloss Over Geithner's Past, Ignore Criticism

Broadcast journalists pave way for Obama's Treasury Secretary by praising history, forgetting involvement in Lehman collapse.
Nathan Burchfiel

Air America President Dismisses Deficit Spending as 'Rhetoric'; Says B

Now that the government has assumed the role of economic planner with various bailout packages and stimulus plans, experts are predicting a federal budget deficit of $1 trillion. That much money may be difficult to comprehend, but former President Ronald Reagan put it in perspective with a 1981 analogy describing the federal debt: "And the best I could come up with is that if you had a stack of…
Jeff Poor

Air America President Dismisses Deficit Spending as 'Rhetoric

Liberal talk radio head Mark Green says balanced budgets only 'politically real.'
Jeff Poor

NBC Laments Bush's Last-Minute Oil Shale Maneuvering

Correspondent Lisa Myers cites actor Robert Redford to prove energy strategy a threat.
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

Noonan: Mischievous Media Wants to Make Palin Face of GOP

Why does Sarah Palin continue to receive so much media coverage?  Peggy Noonan has a theory.  The Wall Street Journal columnist believes the MSM is up to what she considers "mischief": attempting to make Sarah Palin the face of the Republican party.Noonan propounded her premise during an appearance today on Morning Joe.
Mark Finkelstein

Entertainment Weekly Takes the Heat Out of Marriage

Magazine's sexiest movies ever list favors anything but the marital bed.
Colleen Raezler

A Post Christian Vision for Obama

The Washington Post's religion maven advises the Obamas on the perfect church to attend.
Robert Knight

What Time of Year Is It? (Following 4 Years of Media Use of 'Holidays

As the Christmas shopping season went into full swing in 2005, I sensed that journalists in general have a strong preference for using the term "holiday shopping" instead of "Christmas shopping" when covering business and commerce, but that when it came to people losing their jobs, they preferred to describe layoffs as relating to "Christmas." My instincts have been proven correct, as you can see…
Tom Blumer

Bozell Column: Liberalism = Genius

Brent Bozell

CT Legislators Want State To Subsidize Newspapers

Governor: John?  It's the Governor here.  Say, you guys there at the Bristol Press are doing a great job. Top notch.  But there is that one reporter of yours making a big stink over our proposal to increase the state income tax.  He really doesn't get what we're trying to do to help our state move forward.  And you know, that bill to renew your paper's subsidy is coming up next week. I'd hate to…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Highlights Criticism of Obama’s Cabinet ... From Liberals

Brad Wilmouth