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MarketWatch: Japan Faces $500 Billion Carbon Reduction Price Tag
Global warming action's cost could pale in comparison to U.S. cost based on almost every measure - geography, population or economy.
Five Years of Media Slant Against Iraq War Success
Exactly five years ago, an international coalition of troops led by the U.S. invaded Iraq, overthrowing Saddam Hussein's tyrannical dictatorship in just three weeks. Since then, Iraqis have voted in free democratic elections to seat a representative parliament; Saddam and several of his henchmen have been tried and convicted in public war crimes trials; and a bloody insurgency fomented by al…
Four Times More Journalists Identify as Liberal Than Conservative
A survey conducted late last year and released Monday, by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, confirmed the obvious -- that compared to the views of the public, conservatives are under-represented in national journalism while liberals are over-represented. Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times discovered the nugget buried deep in the annual “State of the Media” report from Pew…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: McCain reverses trend, now leads in head-to-head poll against Obama (paragraph breaks eliminated):The poll showed Arizona Sen. McCain, who has clinched the Republican presidential nomination, is benefiting from the lengthy campaign battle between Obama and Clinton, who are now battling to win Pennsylvania on April 22...McCain leads 46…
What Obama Should Have Said About Wright and Race
Despite the glowing praise from supposedly impartial press representatives across the fruited plain, March 18, 2008 could go down in history as the day Barack Obama destroyed his chances of becoming the first black President of the United States. Americans shouldn't be fooled by all the predictable fawning from the usual suspects in the mainstream media, for this was not a shining moment…
Greenfield: Obama Failed By Not Disassociating From 'Crackpot
Like so many of his colleagues, Jeff Greenfield comes to the MSM from a background in Dem politics, having served as a speechwriter for RFK. But more than most, the CBS senior political correspondent demonstrates an ability to put partisanship aside in his analyses. Witness Greenfields's comments on this morning's Early Show regarding Barack Obama's speech on race on this morning's Early Show.…
Obama Can Run, but He Can't Hide Without Media Help – and They're He
The networks gloss over the candidate's failure, in a crucial speech, to explain why he remained in a church that preaches hatred of America.
'Extraordinary' Obama Speech a 'Gift' for 'Confronting Race in America
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Tuesday framed coverage of Barack Obama's speech, in reaction to the furor over the racist, paranoid and America-hating remarks of his long-time pastor, not by focusing on what it says about Obama's true views and judgment but by admiring his success in “confronting” the issue of “race in America” in an “extraordinary” speech. Indeed, both ABC and CBS…
Newsweek Distorts Precedent, Role of NRA in Gun Ban Case
The Newsweek article "When Reason Meets Rifles" discusses the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today. The basic dispute in the case is whether D.C.'s outright handgun ban and de facto ban on rifles, shotguns, and other firearms are unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Notice that the bias begins in the title itself, where "reason" and…
2005 Study: 31 Percent of Journalists Think Gun Rights 'Not Important
In light of our ongoing analysis of liberal media coverage of the District of Columbia v. Heller gun ban case, yesterday NewsBusters Senior Editor Rich Noyes brought to my attention a 2005 survey of journalists that found some 31 percent found the right to keep and bear arms unnecessary and non-essential to their personal liberty. That study's findings don't appear to remain archived online, but…