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How The New York Times Stole Christmas
The folks over at The New York Times must be laughing their heads off. With the President’s poll numbers on the rise, a fabulous election result in Iraq, and the potential extension of a key antiterrorism bill that the administration holds dear, the Times stole Christmas from the White House last week with the release of one carefully-timed article. After some pretty horrible months in September…
ACLU Complained About Echelon Spy Program In
As NewsBusters’ Clay Waters reported, a National Security Agency surveillance program, codenamed “Echelon,” – apparently similar to what the NSA is doing today to counter terrorist activities that has garnered tremendous media outrage in the past four days – existed some years ago. In fact, according to a February 27, 2000 Associated Press article, the ACLU had been expressing its concern…
Times Ignores Cost of Union Strike for Commuters, City
Focusing on workers dignity, reporters ignore cost of strike, generous pay for workers.
Can't Argue With Science
UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose releases results from a study that objectively quantifies media bias. Take a wild guess how that came out. Yes, Virginia, there is a leftist media bias. The only real surprises are that the Wall Street Journal news pages and the Drudge Report are more liberal than they get credit for. While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the…
Another Media Myth Debunked: Hurricane Katrina Killed Across Class Lin
Last week, as reported by NewsBusters, Cybercast News Service published data that refuted the media myth that the government’s supposedly slow response to Hurricane Katrina had anything at all to do with race. This morning, the Los Angeles Times (hat tip to the Drudge Report) debunked the notion that class was an issue as well. With a subheading of “The well-to-do died along with the poor, an…
Time's "People Who Mattered" Are Framed with Bias-Tinged Pictures and
Veteran observers of media bias know that it's not just about the words. It's also about the pictures. Time Magazine deserves all the wrath that will be hurled its way in the coming days not only over not naming "The purple-fingered Iraqi voters" their 2005 Persons of the Year, but for totally omitting them from its 2005 "People Who Mattered" list. The Iraqi voter may not have mattered, but…
