Media Ignored Criticisms of Socialized Medicine in Story of Quarantine
June 3rd, 2007 8:23 PM
The media was fascinated with the story of the Americans in Michael Moore's "Sicko," who left the US for medical treatment in Cuba, a country with socialized medicine, and it was used to highlight the failings of the US health care system. When the exact opposite occurred, and an American fled Italy's socialized medicine for medical treatment in the privatized care of the US, the media decded…
JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrest
June 2nd, 2007 2:30 PM
Anybody that has been watching television or listening to the radio today is aware that a major terrorist plot to blow up JFK airport in New York has been thwarted.*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this story.*****Update II: LGF identifies Netroots' silence on this event.*****Update III: Read entire DOJ press release here. As reported by the Associated Press:Three people were arrested and…
AP: Wal-Mart Firing Cashier for Insulting Shoppers Is Newsworthy
May 31st, 2007 3:27 PM
It's generally bad for business to have a flippant employee who insults your loyal customers. Now if someone could just give that newsflash to the Associated Press. The AP today picked
up on the plight of one David Noordeweir, who was fired in late
February from a Michigan Wal-Mart for an entry on his MySpace page that
insulted the intelligence of Wal-Mart shoppers. Here's the lede.:A former Wal…
The Search for the Housing Bubble Hits a Snag in the Latest OFHEO Repo
May 31st, 2007 12:16 PM
Update: SEE Editor's Note at bottom of post for related MRC content.1Q07 Home Prices Up 0.5%, 4.3% Over 12 Months AgoThose looking for a pervasive and severe nationwide decline in home prices are going to have to keep looking.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) just released its House Price Index (PDF) for the first quarter of 2007. This most comprehensive of home-price…
Media Offered Bland Headlines on Chavez TV Shutdown Story
May 29th, 2007 5:23 PM
"The Anchoress" had an excellent item yesterday about how some news wires are downplaying the authoritarian, anti-free speech nature of Hugo Chavez's move to shut down a private television network that often criticized the Venezuelan thugocrat. She notes that the bland headlines give little reason for the casual reader to sit up and take notice:The initial headlines are either unclear or they’re…
Media Report Sheehan’s Peace Movement Exit, Not Her Democrat Party D
May 29th, 2007 11:03 AM
Well, sports fans, it appears the media have figured out a clever way to report the events surrounding antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan this weekend without insulting the political party they are shilling for.Looking at the major media outlets that have begun to cover this story, the strategy appears to be to report Sheehan’s Daily Kos post from Monday, wherein she stated that she was resigning “as…
Pelosi Holds Global Warming Talks as Late-May Snows Fall in U.S., Cana
May 28th, 2007 5:44 PM
Yes, folks, it’s Memorial Day weekend, snow is still falling in parts of America, England, and Canada, and our House Speaker is traveling abroad to discuss the global warming crisis.You really can't make this stuff up!What’s potentially more comical is that Nancy Pelosi probably doesn’t get the joke, and the press will likely hide the delicious irony so as not to allow the citizenry to get…
Sheehan's Democrat Party Exit Ignored: Are Media Antiwar or Just Anti
May 28th, 2007 1:44 PM
It’s been a full 48 hours since antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan publicly announced that she was leaving the Democrat Party due to Thursday’s bipartisan agreement on an Iraq war funding bill.Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches have identified that not one major media outlet has covered her announcement.Not one.Given the media’s fascination with this woman since she traveled to Crawford, Texas, in…
Blogs and Others Are Running Circles Around Old Media in Venezuela Cov
May 28th, 2007 10:30 AM
Hugo Chavez is simultaneously acting as Bull Connor (fire hoses/water cannons) and Gustav Husak (deploying tanks against his own people), yet what little Old Media coverage there is seems to want to avoid those elements of the story.
At 11:00 a.m. Sunday, Gateway Pundit blogged on Venezuela's virtual dictator sending in tanks to intimidate opponents demonstrating against a government-planned…
AP Reports on Iraq Vote Betray Unhappiness, Give Cover to Presidential
May 25th, 2007 12:21 PM
David Espo of the Associated Press appeared to be unhappy with the result of the House vote on Iraq war funding, and to be offering an excuse for the House Democratic leadership (bolds are mine throughout this post):
WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled House reluctantly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war on Thursday, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that…
AP: Advocating for High Gas Taxes Instead of Reporting "News
May 25th, 2007 1:36 AM
The Associated Press imagines itself a “news” organization. Ordinarily, “news” does not convey opinion, but only facts… at least that’s the ideal. That being the general understanding of what comprises news, it is interesting when we at Newsbusters find odd bits of opinion encased inside any particular AP “news” story. But, it is really odd to find a story that is predicated almost entirely on…
