Networks Gloss Over Geithner's Past, Ignore Criticism

BMI Staff

Extra-Legal Homeschooler Harassment: Happens Often, But It's Not News

This is not a promo for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) per se, as there may be other similarly effective organizations out there to help families who homeschool their kids. But if the following examples don't prove that homeschooled children and their parents need to have access to legal help at a moment's notice, I don't know what will. I will present blood-boiling excerpts…
Tom Blumer

An Alternate Route to Censorship

The Censorship Fairness Doctrine has been something near and dear to the hearts of the far left for a long time. With talk radio and the web being the main pillars of the center-right media landscape, effectively neutralizing conservative radio is a fantasy scenario for Bill Moyers and others like him.That being said, it is becoming more likely that instead of going the congressional route to…
Matthew Sheffield

Barbara Walters: Obamas 'So Smart...The Most Appealing Couple

Like clockwork Barbara Walters successfully landed an interview with President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Channeling Lee Cowan, Walters claimed on the November 26 edition of “The View” she is “supposed to be neutral” then heaped praise on the Obamas. Barbara painted the soon to be first couple as “so smart” and “the most appealing couple” and then passed on a White House invite to…
Justin McCarthy

AP Blames Budget Deficits on Bush, Tax Cuts and War

Noel Sheppard

CNBC Highlights Conspicuous Green Consumption

Some wag dubbed the Prius the "Pious," for the smug self-righteousness of its greener-than-thou owners.  CNBC ran a segment this morning highlighting an even pricier form of conspicuous green consumption: the installation of geothermal wells in Manhattan as an alternative form of HVAC.Narrating a segment that would have had Veblen nodding in approval, CNBC's Bertha Coombs observed "for many, it…
Mark Finkelstein

BMI’s Burchfiel: Gas Prices Good for Americans, Bad for Environmenta

Low gas prices are a boost to the economy and a reason for Americans to give thanks this holiday, but they’re bad for environmentalists who want government mandates for alternative energy, according to Business & Media Institute Assistant Editor Nathan Burchfiel.  “[T]hese prices are good for the American people, they’re good for the American economy, but they’re bad for environmentalists who…
Dan Gainor

Media Fail to Connect Dots on Bailouts

Dan Kennedy

Automakers, Unions Play 'Defense' to Get Bailout

Failing manufacturers claim taxpayer rescue is necessary on national security grounds.
Dan Gainor

Networks Gloss Over Geithner's Past, Ignore Criticism

Broadcast journalists pave way for Obama's Treasury Secretary by praising history, forgetting involvement in Lehman collapse.
Nathan Burchfiel

Air America President Dismisses Deficit Spending as 'Rhetoric'; Says B

Now that the government has assumed the role of economic planner with various bailout packages and stimulus plans, experts are predicting a federal budget deficit of $1 trillion. That much money may be difficult to comprehend, but former President Ronald Reagan put it in perspective with a 1981 analogy describing the federal debt: "And the best I could come up with is that if you had a stack of…
Jeff Poor

Air America President Dismisses Deficit Spending as 'Rhetoric

Liberal talk radio head Mark Green says balanced budgets only 'politically real.'
Jeff Poor

NBC Laments Bush's Last-Minute Oil Shale Maneuvering

Correspondent Lisa Myers cites actor Robert Redford to prove energy strategy a threat.
Jeff Poor

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NB Staff