NYT Shareholders Revolt Against Pinch
The left-wing press is notorious for its hypocrisy and double-standards, especially when it comes to itself. No news organization is a bigger case in point than the New York Times, the so-called paper of record which touts itself as holding the Bush administration accountable, all the while engaging in unprofessional and unethical behavior and never being held accountable for it.Well today, some…
Greenspan's Recant Last Week: Coverage Plays Up the R-Word, Even Thoug
In late February and early March, Alan Greenspan's musing and odds-making on whether the US economy would go into a recession later this year was all the rage in the Formerly Mainstream Media. Here's how Craig Torres of Bloomberg News started out his March 7 report carried in the Washington Post:
'One-Third Probability' in '07, Former Fed Chief Says
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan…
NYT: VT Shootings 'Tough' on NBC? Media Self Absorption Reigns
If one were to contemplate all the horrible results of the actions of this murderous psychopath in Virginia, if one were to wonder how hard and emotional have become the lives of the survivors of those whom this sick individual killed, it would seem axiomatic that the Mainstream Media would be the last group such a reflection would see as a recipient of the "tough decisions" resulting from the…
The Tribune Company Sale: An Object Lesson in the Price of Biased Repo
OVERVIEW: I believe that the sale of The Tribune Company last week to investor Sam Zell is an unrecognized low-water mark in the newspaper publishing business. In fact, after subtracting the value of the Tribune's non-newspaper properties from the deal, what little value remains indicates that the value of having access to a newspaper's readers is a mind-boggling 70% less than it was a mere…
