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Bush, Iraq, and Global Warming at Center of Bangladesh Cyclone
On Monday, NewsBusters asked, "How soon before someone in the media blames the cyclone in Bangladesh on global warming, the war in Iraq, President Bush, or all of the above?" On Saturday, the Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson came very close. In his column entitled "Hesitance on the Warming Front," Jackson was quick to blame everything but nature for the planet's most recent natural disaster (…
NPR Loves Bad Cinema -- If It's 'Laudable Agitprop' Against the Troops
National Public Radio's arts-and-culture show "Fresh Air" recently displayed how its leftist ideology trumps artistic judgment, especially when it comes to movies designed to get America out of Iraq before our crazed soldiers senselessly kill more civilians. Film critic David Edelstein lauded Brian De Palma's new movie "Redacted" as a "laudable artistic response to an unpopular war," even as he…
Grinchy AP Headline: ‘Despite Economy, Malls and Stores Jammed
*****Critical update at end of post: Yahoo switched articles inside the link about to be discussed!Was there a directive at the Associated Press on Friday for business writers to do their darnedest to bash the economy? After publishing a truly disgraceful column Saturday practically predicting a depression as a result of the current credit crunch, the AP offered readers an article about the…
Weekend Captionfest II
Hugo Chavez and Mahmound Ahmadinejad attended the OPEC summit, where they said the fall of the dollar is a sign that "the U.S. empire is coming down."
Disgraceful Gloom at AP: Mortgage Crisis Could Lead to Depression
*****Update at end of post includes detailed response to unhappy e-mail messages concerning this subject.As someone that has done a lot of economic writing and financial media analysis, I'm used to gloom and doom from journalists. However, Saturday's Associated Press article concerning the credit crunch and how it's impacting the mortgage market could be the worst example of economic and…