A $40-Billion Scandal...With a Capital 'D

Networks continue to downplay or skip fiasco at Democrat-run Fannie Mae.
 

Econ 101: Why Immigration Happens

Despite political issues, immigration is really just economic forces at work.
 

Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When It's Rising

Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed.
Noel Sheppard
 

Networks That Praise Gates, Bashed Oil Firms

Same media outlets that attacked oil companies for success compliment Microsoft, a more profitable corporation.
Ken Shepherd
 

Chicago Tribune: "How Do You Spell Futility? FEMA

Mike Bates
 

Dan Rather May Team Up With Cuban (No, Not Castro

Tom Johnson
 

Keith and the Cover

Staring hard at the forthcoming cover of Olbermann's book "The Worst Person in the World," doesn't it appear, oh so poetically, that the cover seems to be applying that honor to Olbermann himself?
Tim Graham
 

LA Times Gone Wild: 'Wrong to Blame Katrina Victims for Spending Irres

Mark Finkelstein
 

MSNBC: Murtha Is 'Personal Attack' Victim, As Murtha Insults Rove's 'F

Brad Wilmouth
 

Media Matters Criticism on Global Warming Unjustified

Amy Ridenour
 

Ifill Chastises 'Excessive' Security for Bush in Baghdad; Totenberg: T

Friday night PBS chat shows delivered a couple of slams from journalists at President Bush over his surprise trip to Baghdad early this week. After Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, who accompanied the President’s entourage, described some of the security precautions taken, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill cited “excessive security” as she derided the trip: “I wonder to what degree anybody in the…
Brent Baker
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original Reuters caption: "Journalists put on their bullet-proof vests aboard Air Force One before touching down with U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad for a surprise visit June 13, 2006."
Matthew Sheffield
 

CNN Practicing Checkbook Journalism

According to Drudge, the checkbook journalism practiced by People Magazine extended to another Time Warner property; Anderson Cooper. There's loud chatter among industry insiders that the $4 million deal PEOPLE Mag's editor Larry Hackett cut with Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt for their baby pictures extended to CNN, also part of the TIME WARNER family. A rep for CNN denies any TIMEWARNER deal…
Mithridate Ombud
 

CBS Terrorism Analyst Notes 'Huge Progress' In War On Terror

Michael Rule