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'Evening News' Shows How Green Innovation is Done -- Without Governmen
Car designer able to create marketable "green" automobile without help from government or large auto manufacturer.
CNN Fights the Free Market Argument
Ali Velshi of 'Your $$$$$,' says critics of regulation could meet 'in a phone booth.'
Velshi Gives Viewers Harsh Dose of Reality on Economic Policy
CNN chief business correspondent warns 'free' market economy may lose freedom, is skeptical of 'fake' green economy.
Dear WSJ: Governments Are Little Different Than Pirates
Like Somali bandits seizing ships, governments seize property under threat of personal harm.
Networks Start Cheerleading for 'New-New Deal
Evening news shows have no room for skepticism when there's an economy to nationalize.
The Anti-Krugman: Rogers Says Let Banks Fail
Paul Krugman has been making the rounds of the network morning shows, urging the government to "go big" in spending to revive the economy. His only concern is that Obama might not be planning to spend enough. Heck, even FDR wasn't a big enough spender in his book. View Krugman's weekend GMA appearance in which he says that here, the episode in which, as discussed here, Krugman of all people…
Obamas Are 'Fabulously Fit' Follow-up: Press Treated Bush Fitness As
In Old Medialand, all it takes for a personal habit -- in this case, exercise -- to go from vice to an overhyped virtue is a change in the party affiliation of the White House occupant. Yesterday, NB's Tim Graham commented on a puff piece about the Obamas' exercise routines by Associated Press groupie -- er, reporter -- Deanna Bellandi, who characterized the couple as "fabulously fit."Several NB…
AP Finds Race Hustler to Say Obama Isn't The Cure
The Associated Press is worried that Americans might accidentally imagine that the elevation of Barack Obama to the presidency could make people think that blacks in America really can get ahead. The AP is so worried that it sought out a race hustler to deny that blacks can make it here no matter what happened on November 4.
As the AP reports it, apparently young Kari Fulton "cringed" when…
TV Week: TV to Treat Obamas 'Like Royalty' for Ratings Bonanza
Are you looking for hard hitting, serious journalism? Don't turn to the syndicated "newsmagazines" like Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, or The Insider (not that anyone ever did, of course). They are apparently admitting right up front that they have every intention of pumping up the Obama mythos by treating him "like royalty."
TV Week is reporting that all the so-called "newsmagazines…
Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! Bicoastal Episodes of Political Correctness
Florida school bars holiday decor, while two California schools give the ax to kindergarteners dressing as Pilgrims and Indians
ABC News Spends Friday Night with Prostitutes
Nightline twists economic turmoil into a feature on the world's oldest profession but never questions morality.
ABC Marvels at Obama Filling Bush's 'Vacuum' So 'We've Got Two Preside
Less than 12 hours after George Stephanopoulos, on Good Morning America, glowed that “we have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes,” he popped up on World News to hail how Barack Obama's team recognized the Bush administration's “vacuum” and so decided to “step in and fill” it by showing “the President-elect…
CBS Touts ‘Star-Studded’ Obama Cabinet, ‘Bold’ and ‘Inspired
On the Saturday Early Show on CBS, President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet picks were presented positively as correspondent Kimberly Dozier referred to a "superstar Cabinet," and its members as "bold" and "inspired," while co-anchor Erica Hill called the Cabinet "star-studded." The terminology was similar to that employed by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on the previous night's Nightly News, as she…
