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ABC: Treats Rise in Consumer Confidence as Bad News
Editor's Note: This story originally ran on our sister site www.Businessandmedia.org. When is an increase in consumer confidence bad news? When ABC reports it.Network anchor George Stephanopoulos led off the news cast with this gloom-and-doom teaser: "Terrible Tuesday. Inflation surges. Stocks dive. And consumer confidence nears a record low."But Stephanopoulos left out a key detail: consumer…
ABC Treats Rise in Consumer Confidence as Bad News
Network pretends only solution to inflation is job losses.
Lying Joe Klein Denounces Lying Liars Against Obama
Barack Obama’s official fight-back packet against anti-Obama author Jerome Corsi carries an endorsement of sorts from Time magazine. In a yellow Time-like banner on the top-right of the cover is the Time logo and the words "Trash" and "Poisonous Crap." The nasty words come from a Time "Swampland" blog post by one Joe Klein, who decries all the "filth and lies" from the "right-wing sludge…
CNN Segment on Paddling Features Student Wearing Communist Insignia
[Update, 3:30 pm ET Wednesday: Video added, at right.]Wednesday’s American Morning program on CNN ran a segment by correspondent Ed Lavandera on the practice of corporal punishment for students, which featured a Texas student speaking out against paddling who wore a red T-shirt -- which featured the communist hammer and sickle symbol, an insignia popular with regimes which presided over the…
Media Ignore Obama's 'Economic Disaster' Declaration
Democratic presidential candidate blasts McCain's criticism of his tax plan with hyperbole; media gloss over exaggerations.
Margin of Victory: How the Liberal Media Made Barack Obama the Democra
The Media Research Center has just released a comprehensive study of the broadcast networks coverage of Barack Obama since he arrived on the national stage just four years ago. The bottom line: TV reporters adored Obama, and the celebratory coverage of the “rock star” candidate provided him with a huge advantage and almost certainly the margin of victory in the extremely close Democratic race.…
Chgo Sun-Times Omits Daley Party Label in City Worker Purge Story
"Daley scoffs at worries of political purge," reads a August 20 Chicago Sun-Times headline recording the dismissive reaction of the city's Democratic mayor about how his city worker firing spree could turn into a political purge. Only Daley's Democratic Party affiliation was nowhere mentioned in Fran Spielman's nine paragraph story:Mayor Daley on Tuesday scoffed at a federal hiring monitor's…
Greeley IDs The Bad Guys: Veterans, Crackers, Sox Fans
Andrew Greeley's column in today's Chicago Sun-Times is "American warmongers excel at talking a good game." Greeley's writings are often unintentionally amusing, filled with the sort of kneejerk liberalism we'd expect from a Barack Obama contributor. This morning's article is typically hilarious:
Web a Leading News Source, Papers, TV Decline, Younger Ignoring ALL Ne
Congratulate yourselves as being among the leading edge in Americans interested in the news. According to a recent Pew survey 37 percent of America's news consumers go to the Internet for their news. But it isn't all good news for our sources of news. For one thing, this survey also shows that many of us are logging on at work. This is the sort of thing that could be hurt if more and more…
Halperin: McCain Pro-Choice VP Pick Would Be 'Disaster
Don't want to take Rush's word for it? How about Mark Halperin's? The editor of Time's "The Page" thinks the choice by John McCain of a pro-choice running mate would be nothing short of a "disaster." Halperin expressed his view during an appearance today on CNN's American Morning.KIRAN CHETRY: What about some potential running mates for John McCain? Because there's been a lot of talk all over…
