NY Times: Poverty's a Huge Issue, Though We're Better Off Than Ever; W

NY Times Magazine devotes 21,000 words to warped economic perspective.
Jeff Poor
 

CNN: Americans ‘Work More Than Medieval Peasants

Dan Gainor
 

CNN About-Face on CEOs: Higher Pay OK If Stock Is Doing Well

'American Morning' contradicts previous story on CEO compensation.
Jeff Poor
 

CNN Does About-Face on CEO Pay

Julia A. Seymour
 

TV Anchorman Lobbies Connecticut Legislature For Bill Benefiting Broad

This really is delicious: a television anchorman in Connecticut has been exposed as having lobbied members of that state’s legislature in order to get a bill that benefited broadcasters passed.As reported Friday by the Hartford Courant (h/t Dan Gainor): Al Terzi, anchor of WFSB, Channel 3's "Eyewitness News," personally called a key legislator to urge the bill's passage. Terzi's WFSB colleagues…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN’s Gives Liberal Dershowitz a Platform to Decry Harsh Sentence fo

Matthew Balan
 

Dumbest. Question. Ever. Thanks, Newsweek

Ken Shepherd
 

Rather Attacks Couric: 'Dumb It Down, Tart It Up

As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday’s edition of "Morning Joe" and lobbied for a "a strategic withdrawal from Iraq." He also found time to twice bash his "Evening News" successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and tarting up the news. After giving the standard caveat that Couric is a "nice person," he went in for kill. Speculating on the program’s…
Scott Whitlock
 

Edwards Strategist Not Liberal Enough for Commenters at Time Blog

Time magazine's "Swampland" blog last week gave former Rep. Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) a platform as guest blogger and left-wing readers quickly pounced with all the juvenile invective they could muster. One commenter to Armey's valedictory post wished that Armey would eat sh*t and die, albeit saying so with more flowery language: "May you engage in coprophagy, then shuffle off this…
Ken Shepherd
 

Dennis Miller Tears Sen. Harry Reid Apart on FNC’s ‘1/2 Hour News

Noel Sheppard
 

An Odd Way to Attain Peace

Back in January, I reported on a particularly odd funeral over in the Palestinian territories of a 10-year-old girl named Abir Aramin, who was supposedly killed by the Israeli Defence Forces at an "anti-barrier" protest. Figure 1: Bassam Aramin, Jan. 20, 2007. Imagine my surprise, then, to learn from freelance journalist Hélène Keller-Lind over the weekend (en Anglais for we non-Francophiles)…
Brian C. Ledbetter
 

MRC Study Documents TV's Paltry, Left-Leaning Immigration News

Rich Noyes
 

Michael Moore's Attorney Says Cuba Investigation Product of Discrimina

Matthew Sheffield
 

Rather Slams Iraq as ‘Strategic Catastrophe of Historic Proportions

Scott Whitlock