Coverage of Democrat Hit on Jindal in La. Omits His Front-Runner Statu
August 23rd, 2007 11:03 AM
The Associated Press's Melinda Deslatte covered the controversy over Democratic attack ads on GOP gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal yesterday:
A political ad from the Louisiana governor's race is drawing a storm of criticism for accusing Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal of calling Protestants "scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical."
Democrats say the state party's 30-second TV spot -…
Libs Love Books--Or Do They
August 21st, 2007 5:14 PM
Liberals around the country are smiling today at an Associated Press poll and story circulating on the web claiming that conservatives read less than liberals, none more so than former Colorado Democratic congresswoman Pat Schroeder who despite being president of the American Association of Publishers decided she felt like insulting half of her potential reading audience by dusting off an old…
Kyoto Goes Dodo As APEC Says No-no to Carbon Emissions Targets
August 18th, 2007 1:59 PM
Some extraordinary statements concerning global warming have been made in the past couple of days by a key member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that could signal the end of the Kyoto Protocol as we know it. Of course, you likely didn't hear about this, for even though America is part of APEC, our media seemed thoroughly disinterested. However, as this is indeed quite…
Leaked Document Shows Britain Can’t Meet EU’s Renewable Energy Tar
August 13th, 2007 4:42 PM
As Congress debates ways to combat climate change, a leaked internal briefing to officials in Great Britain (PDF available here) showed members of that government backtracking on renewable energy targets set forth by the European Union and agreed upon by former Prime Minister Tony Blair. As reported by England's Guardian Monday (emphasis added throughout, h/t Benny Peiser): In contrast to the…
WSJ Op-Ed's Look at Old Media Business Bias: Very Good Points, But Inc
August 11th, 2007 3:42 PM
At OpinionJournal.com on Thursday ("Fair but Unbalanced -- How the media promote false pessimism about the economy"), Brian Wesbury, who has written several times on the disconnect between the strong economy and the public's perception of it (previous references here, here, here, here, and here), had another generally stellar column about what is nonetheless a relatively small piece of the…
Econ 101, Hey! High Schoolers Do Pretty Well on Biz-Econ Assessment
August 10th, 2007 4:50 PM
Headline and sub-headline in today's OpinionJournal.com: The Kids Are All Right Economic literacy test: High school seniors beat Congress. Excerpts (bold is mine): Since its founding in 1969, the NAEP has become something of an annual exercise in American educational masochism. Last year, only 54% of students met NAEP's "basic" standard--the equivalent of a passing grade--on the science test.…
'Please Don't Read This' Headline Leads Incomplete AP Beauchamp Story
August 9th, 2007 2:49 PM
One needs to look no further than the Associated Press's story on the Scott Beauchamp saga to understand why the general public not following the news closely doesn't "get" just how biased and antagonistic towards the war, the military, and American soldiers Old Media outlets are. In the case of Scott Beauchamp, now that their brethren at The New Republic (TNR) have been caught red-handed…
Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coo
August 8th, 2007 11:11 AM
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a…
