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Media Bash Mattel for Chinese Production but Ignore Consumer Benefits
Cost of manufacturing goods in the United States would affect prices and availability of many products.
Networks Blame FAA, Not Airlines for Runway Problems
For a change, the media gave the government a hard time about air travel, instead of bashing the airlines. The media reported on new Federal Aviation Administration guidelines for better runway safety and on ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" and CNN's "American Morning."Lisa Stark said, "The FAA commission admits that runway collisions are an increasing threat," and cautioned that new rules…
CNN's Morning Show Covers NYT's ‘Jerk’ Jab at Bush, 'Fox & Friends
"American Morning" co-host Kiran Chetry, an alumna of Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends Weekend," gave her former colleagues at Fox a run for the money in highlighting a case of media bias. While "Fox & Friends" on Thursday morning was covering the earthquake in Peru, and featured several segments on the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis, Chetry interviewed "Wired" magazine senior…
Study: Newspapers Make Many Errors, Correct Few
As much as traditional media outlets and old-fashioned political types like to rag on blogs for being inaccurate, the fact is the old media are hardly paragons of accuracy. According to a University of Oregon study (h/t Glenn Reynolds), newspapers are full of mistakes that almost never get corrected.The average newspaper should expand by a factor of 50 the amount of space given to corrections if…
Chris Cuomo Asks 'Recession?' But Reporter Says Economy Is 'Holding Up
"Good Morning America" asked "What is going on?" with the stock market on August 16. Anchor Chris Cuomo asked Bianna Golodryga if the market drop is a correction or a recession."There seem to be two schools of thought here, those involved in all this sophisticated mortgage lending are saying this is the beginning of the end. But stock analysts are saying it is just a correction. Where are people'…
Army Suicide Rate Highest in 26 Years, But
The Associated Press (via America Online) highlights how U.S. Army suicides are the highest in a quarter century, but we have to wait until the fifth paragraph to read an interesting detail:The 99 suicides included 28 soldiers deployed to the two wars and 71 who weren't. About twice as many women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan committed suicide as did women not sent to war, the report said.…
Shocking Headline: ‘Summer Chill Is One For The Ages
Imagine for a moment that the capital of the most-populated state in the union was experiencing its warmest days on record. Do you think this would be headline, front page, lead story news? Well, the capital of California, Sacramento, last week posted the lowest recorded highs for the days August 5 and August 6 since they began keeping records in 1877. Didn't hear about this? Of course you didn…
Open Thread
Special NB getting hit by Drudge edition...Also: Don't forget tomorrow's NewsBusters 2-year happy hour in DC.
MSNBC Newsroom Booed Bush State of the Union
UPDATE: Joe and Mika discuss this NB item. Video (0:57): Real (1.55 MB) or Windows (1.78 MB), plus MP3 (435 kB). Joe Scarborough has pulled back the curtain on the liberal bias at MSNBC, describing an incident in which people in its newsroom ceaselessly booed President Bush during a State of the Union address.The revelation came on "Morning Joe" today at 6:02 A.M. EDT. Joe was discussing a…
Top Seattle Times Editor Admits Majority of Newsroom Votes 'Blue,' Dri
Seattle Times Executive Editor Dave Boardman, who in a Tuesday e-mail to his staff had scolded them for cheering Karl Rove's resignation (Ken Shepherd's NewsBusters item), wrote a follow-up e-mail on Wednesday in which he conceded the political display matched the “blue” perspective of the majority in his newsroom where, like most of journalism, reporters are driven by “activism.” Boardman…
NBC Nightly News Joins Newsweek in Smearing Global Warming 'Deniers
Only days after Newsweek was embarrassed when its own columnist, Robert Samuelson, excoriated the magazine for a “fundamentally misleading” and “highly contrived” cover story meant to defame the global warming “denial machine,” Wednesday's NBC Nightly News aired an equally distorted story which smeared “deniers,” a term no doubt meant to conjure a similarity to dishonorable Holocaust deniers.…
Reuters Blames Number of Texas Executions on Evangelical Christians
The State of Texas easily has the highest execution rate in the United States. That is part of the reason why you "don't mess with Texas." And why is it exactly that Texas stands alone in implemeting the death penalty? According to Reuters, the answer is evangelical Christians.
In its article "Religion and culture behind Texas execution tally," Reuters states: