GM's Auditor Issues 'Going Concern' Warning; Press Ignores Post-Bailou
March 5th, 2009 11:57 AM
An early review of press coverage relating to this morning's warning by General Motors that "there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern" shows no coverage of the reason why, despite $13.4 billion in taxpayer money (NOT counting bailout money going to GMAC), things have gotten so much worse so quickly.The reason is that sales in the two full months since the Bush-…
An Affair to Forget: AP Dances Around Re-elected Dem Mayor's Adultery
March 4th, 2009 1:39 PM
"Villaraigosa affair may not be one to remember," prophesied the July 7, 2007 headline in the L.A. Times. A year and a half later, the Associated Press danced around the Democratic Los Angeles mayor's adulterous liaison with a Spanish-language reporter assigned to the city hall beat.From today's story on his March 3 re-election accessed at CBSNews.com (emphases mine), notice how the AP pulls its…
National Media Avoid Identifying Levy Murder Suspect as an Illegal
March 4th, 2009 2:44 AM
CBS, CNN, FNC and the AP on Tuesday all failed to identify Ingmar Guandique, for whom an arrest warrant was issued for the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy, as an illegal alien. In a full story on the CBS Evening News, reporter Bob Orr described him simply as a “Salvadoran immigrant.” During CNN's Situation Room, Zain Verjee benignly called him “a laborer from El Salvador” and later, on Anderson…
AP's Citi Deal Report Avoids 'Nationalization,' Plays 'Name That Party
February 27th, 2009 12:08 PM
There's an N-Word you apparently write at your own risk if you're in the establishment media. It's "nationalization." The Associated Press's Stephen Bernard, with the help of old reliables Jeannine Aversa and Martin Crutsinger, blew through almost 800 words (link is dynamic; 12:49 p.m. version is saved here for future reference, is now authored by Crutsinger, and is longer than what I originally…
AFP Criticizes Fox News for Obama-Critical Article -- Written by AP
February 26th, 2009 1:34 PM
Maybe it was just too easy to assume the worst of the news network most others in the press love to hate. Or perhaps it was deliberate.Whatever the reason, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire service's Wednesday story about reaction to Barack Obama's sort-of State of the Union Speech the previous evening spent four of its last five paragraphs pinning a report harshly critical of various claims in…
AP's Loven Describes Obama Speech -- 5-1/2 Hours Before It Began (See
February 25th, 2009 9:19 AM
Who knew that the Associated Press's Jennifer Loven has the ability to see into the future? That must be the case, because yesterday she told us what had happened at Barack Obama's sort-of State of the Union speech -- 5-1/2 hours before Obama uttered a word. As fellow NewsBuster Noel Sheppard is given to say, "I kid you not." Loven's AP story carried at Breitbart (HT to Abe Greenwald a Commentary…
AP's Loven Criticized Bush's Valid Arguments as 'Straw Men,' Silent on
February 21st, 2009 8:27 AM
The Associated Press's Jennifer Loven is now the President of the White House Correspondents Association (picture at right is from the WHCA web site). Loven was the first person on President Obama's preselected list of those permitted to ask a question at his February prime-time press briefing. Whether she received this top placement because of her office, or because of her years of George Bush-…
NY Times Feeds Into Notion that Republican Opposition to Stimulus Bill
February 20th, 2009 2:55 PM
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn appeared on WIS-TV yesterday in a round table setting to discuss how the stimulus bill will affect South Carolina. During the debate he stated that he was insulted by opposition to the plan; specifically targeting GOP Governors of Southern States by implying that their opposition was a "slap in the face of African-Americans" as if race was a determining…
New York Times Co. Suspends Dividend; Share Price Less Than Cost of Su
February 20th, 2009 9:03 AM
Yesterday, The New York Times Company suspended its quarterly dividend. The company's stock slid 5% to close at $3.51, yet another all-time low in the company's nearly 23 years as a public company in its current form (the Times has been a public company since the 1960s).Henry Blodget at Silicon Valley Insider noted, even before yesterday's announcement and share-price dip, that the company's…
Name That Party: Chicago Alderman Sentenced to 4 Years; Sun-Times, AP
February 18th, 2009 12:23 AM
Former Chicago Democratic Alderman Arenda Troutman was sentenced today to four years in prison for mail and tax fraud. In covering her sentencing, both the Chicago Sun-Times article (picture at right is cropped from that article) and Jeff Coen's Breaking News piece at the Chicago Tribune failed to mention that Troutman is a Democrat. Now it would be easy to say, "But of course she's a Democrat;…
AP: Obama 'Has Done Wonders' Bringing Presidency to Children
February 17th, 2009 1:17 PM
So you think Barack Obama has done nothing yet but coddle terrorists, kill unborn babies, and shove through Congress a spending bill of gargantuan proportions? Well, think again, Buster. The Associated Press reported in passing yesterday that The One also "has done wonders to bring the office of the presidency to life for young people."Now precisely what those wonders are isn't detailed. We…
