NYT Blames U.S. Business for Wal-Mart Trampling -- a 'Shopping Guernic

New York Times economics reporter Peter Goodman certainly can't be accused of dry writing. Goodman constantly draws attention to his economics stories (often well-positioned by editors) with sharp criticism of capitalism, and he reached a new level of leftist abstraction in his Sunday Week in Review piece on the early-morning shopping stampede at a Long Island Wal-Mart that resulted in the…
Clay Waters

CBS Offers Tribute to Harvey Milk: ‘A Rebel With A Cause

On CBS’s Sunday Morning, host Charles Osgood teased a story on politician Harvey Milk, who was the first gay man elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977: "The story of a rebel with a cause is being retold in the form of a just-released motion picture. And as it happens, the timing could hardly be more appropriate." The movie, starring left-wing actor Sean Penn, is set to come out…
Kyle Drennen

Dear NY Times: U.S. Economy Overflows with Outliers

Free markets give unprecedented opportunities to many.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

New York Times Parties 'Like It's

Times continues media theme of another Great Depression.
Julia A. Seymour

The Free Speech Alliance Declares War on the 'Censorship Doctrine

A multitude of organizations, hundreds of thousands of individuals join together to defend the First Amendment from a reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness" DoctrineEditor's Note: You too can join the Free Speech Alliance.  Click here and sign the petition, and stand at the ready for whenever any liberal again threatens the First Amendment with talk of reinstating the Censorship Doctrine…
NB Staff

ABC Ignores Party ID of Dem Mayor Accused of Racist Remarks, Nepotism

Over the course of two segments and seven minutes, "Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer on Monday completely ignored the party affiliation of a Kansas City mayor embroiled in a lawsuit over racist remarks and charges of nepotism, at no point identifying Mayor Mark Funkhouser as a Democrat. The only designation of Funkhouser came in the form of a bland, onscreen graphic: "Mayor Mark…
Scott Whitlock

Name That Party: Democratic Birmingham Mayor Arrested

Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford has been arrested. His party is not mentioned in the story at AL.com. Langford is Democrat (even Wikipedia took a while before naming his party). Here are key paragraphs from the story:
Tom Blumer

USA Today: 'Obama's Actions Perk Up Stock Market

Mike Bates

MSNBC Anchor Frets: Why Hasn’t Obama’s Election Ended Terrorism

File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama 23 days earlier — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence.Talking with correspondent John Yang, who was covering the Obama…
Rich Noyes

Ed Schultz Laments Not Getting to 'Urinate' in White House 'Yard

Gee, wondered liberal radio host Ed Schultz, how come conservative talkers got invited to the White House during the Bush presidency but not us lefties?Here's how Schultz put it in his inimitable way on Wednesday, initially describing how President-elect Obama has yet to call on a Fox News reporter during his transition press conferences (click here for audio) -- I should just tickle the memory a…
Jack Coleman

MSM Ignore India's Strict Gun Control Laws

Joshua Sharf

Open Thread

NB Staff

'Nightly News' Spins 'Black Friday' Increase as Bad

NBC downplays 7.2 percent hike in holiday sales; previously called sales on the day after Thanksgiving 'a giant barometer on the true state of the economy.'
Jeff Poor

Eleanor Clift: 'Could Barack Obama Become the Next Ronald Reagan

Remember how most of the mainstream media used to deride Ronald Reagan to the extent of constantly declaring the "end of the Reagan era?' Well, now the MSM is starting to find "strange new respect" for Reagan but primarily as a way to boost Barack Obama. Newsweek columnist, Eleanor Clift, now favorably compares Obama to Ronald Reagan. Gone is the previous antagonism to The Gipper which has been…
P.J. Gladnick