NYT Twists Data: Makes Great Personal Income News Appear Awful (UPDATE

Try to imagine what the New York Times did with the following data: Go ahead. Then go to the full post to find out.
Tom Blumer
 

‘Nightly News’ Slams American Airlines With Flawed Comparison

Jeff Poor
 

ChiTrib Readers Overwhelmingly Support Arellano Deportation

Ken Shepherd
 

Janeane Garofalo Joins '24' Cast

Pam Meister
 

NBC Trashes American Airlines with Faulty Comparison

Jeff Poor
 

Biased PBS 'Gold Futures' Documentary Partly Funded by Gold Investor S

Bill Hobbs
 

Film Critic Roeper Calls MRC, Conservatives Racist, Elitist

Robert Knight
 

Cramer Responds to Barron’s, Hints Article Criticizing Him Was at Mu

Jeff Poor
 

Open Thread

For general debate and discussion...
NB Staff
 

Seattle P-I: Bush Supporters 'White, Male, Middle-aged and Slightly St

Warner Todd Huston
 

Reuters: George Bush Hates Middle-class Kids

Jason Smith
 

Misleading NYT/Globe Articles Portray Income Growth as Income Decline

Dispatch from the Department of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MSM Division . . . Today's New York Times contains an article about sleight of hand. Elsewhere in the paper, the Times engages in some statistical prestidigitation of its own.You're the New York Times and its minor-league subsidiary, the Boston Globe. You obtain government data showing that Americans' incomes have risen every…
Mark Finkelstein
 

AP: 'Alcohol-Related Driving Deaths Up'... Except When They're Not

The AP's headline gravely informs us that Alcohol-related driving deaths up. Yet, here is a wonderful case where a headline screams an alarmist message that the story itself does not really substantiate. Now, it is true that columnists and journalists rarely, if ever, write their own headlines so maybe we shouldn't tsk tsk writer Natasha T. Metzler. But, one would hope that the so-called…
Warner Todd Huston
 

The MTV Disconnect

The network's own survey shows that family and faith, not sex, are what make young Americans happy. Guess what's on the nightly broadcast schedule.
Kristen Fyfe