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Schumer Has Praise for Paulson's Regulatory Restructuring Plan
Democratic New York senator tells CNBC's Erin Burnett that Paulson's plan is 'a good foundation.'
CBS’s Pelley: Innocent Man Tortured In ‘America's Shadow Prison Sy
On Sunday’s "60 Minutes" on CBS, anchor Scott Pelley interviewed Murat Kurnaz, a german-born Muslim man who was released from Guantanamo Bay after five years, having been found innocent of terrorist activity, and as Pelley declared: "At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America's shadow prison system in the war on terror...The story Kurnaz told us is a rare look inside that clandestine…
'This Week': George Will vs. The World on Housing Bailout
Lone conservative, free-market voice George Will faces off against liberals Robert Reich, Donna Brazile and Paul Krugman.
The Incredible Shrinking Newsweek
Newsweek magazine is undergoing massive restructuring, buying out the contracts of over 100 employees and offering to buy out many more including its two liberal opinion-mongers Jonathan Alter and Howard Fineman:The staff of Newsweek will shrink dramatically, after 111 staffers on its news and business sides accepted a buyout last week. [...] More staffers than expected accepted the offer, so at…
$2,500 Richer, But Renter Still A Foreclosure Victim
'Evening News' reports on family paid to leave, but that gripes about having to move.
New Muppet Movie to Attack Big Oil
News has leaked out from the folks at Muppet central (The Jim Henson Company) that the next Muppet feature film will sport a story line that attacks oil companies. According to CHUD.com, the story will center around all our favorite Muppets producing a show to raise money to save their old theater. They need the money, of course, because an "evil character" is trying to buy the building so that…
[Updated: Williams Responds] | MSNBC.com Omits Jefferson's Democratic
Update at bottom of post: Williams responds (18:24 EDT) I have to hand it to the AP this time. They actually noted the political party affiliation of another Democrat in legal hot water. So did CNN.com and Reuters. But for some reason, MSNBC's Pete Williams left out the party affiliation of Louisiana's Rep. William Jefferson (D) in this March 31 item at the First Read blog:In something of a…
CBS's Stahl: Al Gore Is 'PR Agent For The Planet
On Sunday’s "60 Minutes" anchor Lesley Stahl interviewed former Vice President turned global warming alarmist, Al Gore, and observed: "There's still a lot of skepticism about whether global warming is manmade...there's pretty impressive people, like the Vice President [Dick Cheney]." Gore then described skeptics like Cheney this way: "I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority…
'60 Minutes' Gives Gore Softball Interview to Launch $300-Million Prop
Former vice president calls global warming skeptics moon-landing deniers and flat earthers.
WaPo's New Worry for Elderly: No More TV Come Next February
It's a looming crisis for the country's aged, worthy of front-page coverage in today's Washington Post.Is it the classic pay the heating bill or buy groceries quandary? No. The media-hyped dilemma of whether to buying gasoline or fill prescriptions? Good guess, but no. It's, wait for it, millions of elderly people with equally elderly TV sets facing a boob tube-less doomsday come next February!…
Open Thread
A tip for today's starter: ReviveTube. This site lets you watch videos that YouTube has pulled from its public archive because of censorship complaints.It seems to work by accessing the Flash files directly from YouTube's servers since when it "deletes" a video, really all that YouTube does is just deny access to the page it's on. The files are still cached an accessible, provided you know how to…
AP: Plagiarism a 'Consequence of the Internet
Just once I'd like to see blame for one of our societal ills put in the proper place these days. Everyone has to finger point at everyone else while ignoring their own part in the mess. This incident, though, is just another bad example of blame put everywhere but where it belongs. In this case, the AP reports about a University of Texas at San Antonio incident of plagiarism of which Clemson…
Early Show Recruits Chorus of Critics to Bash Bush Fed Plan
When This Week assembled a round-table of four liberals versus one conservative yesterday, I kvetched. Maybe I should have cheered. ABC's idea of balance looks good compared to that of CBS. This morning's Early Show preview of the Bush admin's plan, to be announced later today, to regulate the financial industry was essentially conservative-free. OK, to be absolutely accurate, there was a…