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Wednesday Funnies: TIME Introduces New Magazine - This One For Adults
The folks at The Onion took on Time magazine Tuesday and did so in a fashion that will put a smile on many conservative faces."Readers who grew up loving the magazine's bright, glossy photos, news by the numbers, and simple to understand stories will now be able to graduate to 'Time Advanced,'" reported mock newscaster Damon Werner."While kids love Time for its fun articles about litter and new…
ABC News Tries To Incite Incident At Mosque Protest
In 1989 during my first gig as an investigative reporter with the Guam Tribune, my editor sat me down and I've never forgotten his warning, "It's the job of the news media to report the news, not incite it."Tell that to ABC News.In a letter to David Westin, President of ABC NEWS from Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition...Dear Mr. Westin:I am alarmed by an…
MSNBC’s Schultz Compares Tea Party Movement to Nazi 'Brown Shirts' t
Wasn't comparing your political opponents to Nazis once a no-no? I mean, just remember how upset the liberal concern police would get if some wayward individual at a Tea Party event in some random place in the United States had a homemade sign protesting President Barack Obama and invoked Nazi Germany symbolism? Well, you would think - or at least expect a national TV host (even with…
CBO's Rosy Stimulus Numbers Have Little Basis in Reality, But Media Ag
In the media's continued effort to sell the stimulus to the American public, reality is simply a nuisance. It's much easier to use rosy economic projections with little to no grounding in the real world, and to refrain from informing readers just how disconnected from reality those models are.That is exactly what many in the media have done since the Congressional Budget Office released numbers…
CNN: GOP 'Very Far to the Right'; Guest Laments McCain's Rightward Lea
On Tuesday's AC360, CNN's John Roberts labeled Republican candidates who have Tea Party support "very far to the right," and specifically referred to Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott as an "ultraconservative." Guest John Avlon also bemoaned John McCain's tack to the right during the primary campaign, and slammed how the senator has been called a "RINO" by many conservatives.Roberts, who…
Mika on 'Morning Joe': If Obama Can Run a Beer Summit, He Can Work to
Picking up where she left off last week, MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski on Tuesday and Wednesday cast opponents of the Ground Zero mosque as a "destructive" force, "demonizing" Muslims and "promoting ignorance." Yet Brzezinski advocated Wednesday for a compromise between the two sides to be spearheaded by President Obama. When Joe Scarborough opined that President Obama, along with…
Explaining 'Lives Touched' to the Mainstream Media
In late July, a Government Accountability Office report circulated which analyzed stimulus funding being spent by the Department of Energy. The main gist of that report involved the cost of each job being generated by the stimulus bill - a staggering $194,000. Tucked away in that report was a phrase that was new to most of us, a way to calculate jobs through a term called ‘lives touched'. Last…
Bozell Column: The Real Radio Hatemongers
Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN that she was hanging up her headphones at the end of the year. If she could not exercise her freedom of speech, she said, she was not interested in the job. Watchdogs on the left had pounced on a conversation she had with a black woman in which she proclaimed something that everyone with cable TV knows is true. The N-word is acceptable…
Too Many Vacations? Let's be Thankful He's Out of the White House
We would all benefit if Obama went on a two-year holiday.
Journalists Have Bad Case of Americaphobia
Viewers tuning out the network news as old media model collapses.
CBS, NBC Mourn Loss of Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A recent court ruling found that federal funding for embryonic stem cell research violates laws prohibiting the government from using taxpayer money for research that destroys an embryo. The ruling has sent the evening network news broadcasts reeling. While ABC's "World News" briefly reported on the ruling Aug. 23, the NBC "Nightly News" and CBS "Evening News" have both aired reports suggesting…
July New Home Sales: Wire Reports Dour, But Still Understated; Reuters
July's bad news in new home sales is even worse than it first appears. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000 units is bad enough. That is an all-time low since records have been kept and 12% lower than June's annual rate. It's also lower than what analysts predicted by about the same percentage. The lazy business press is running with those figures. But, as has been the case so many…