Law Firm Dems Hired to Probe Attorney Firings Gave Heavily to Dem Camp
March 28th, 2007 11:15 PM
This is a developing story, so there's room for it to play out a bit, but the law firm congressional Democrats are hiring to help plow through the U.S. attorney firings, Arnold & Porter, has a history of heavy donations towards Democrats.From the last two paragraphs of a March 28 Associated Press story:[House Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers , meanwhile, has signed
a contract…
WashPost Gives Royal Navy Hostage Story Just 51 Words On Day Four of I
March 27th, 2007 11:07 AM
Today marks four days since Iran's Revolutionary Guard captured 15 British servicemen in what they claim are Iranian territorial waters. A similar incident in 2004 lasted just three days.Yet the Washington Post, which has never hesitated to front-page negative developments in the war in Iraq, gave just 51 words on page A8 to the ongoing detention of 15 British servicemen.By contrast, the March…
Coverage of Jeb Bush Honorary Degree Denial Ignores Florida Colleges
March 25th, 2007 8:43 AM
In discussing this controversy, it's important for the sake of perspective to remember what Henry Kissinger said:
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
While the University of Florida Faculty Senate's decision to deny former Governor Jeb Bush an honorary degree is, in the big picture, an unimportant kerfuffle, it is nonetheless a cheap and gratuitous…
Wal-Mart's Bank Plan Withdrawal: AP Shows Strange Sympathy for the Big
March 20th, 2007 7:35 AM
Friday, Wal-Mart dropped its bid to establish a federally insured bank. It's ridiculous that they had so much trouble getting approved, because as the linked article noted:
Industrial banks have been proliferating in recent years — Target Corp., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Harley-Davidson Inc. are among the nearly 60 that now exist. Critics say their growth dangerously blurs the line between…
If the Business Reporters at AP Know What's 'Real,' They Don't Show It
March 9th, 2007 7:09 PM
The 2006 Real (after Inflation) Increase in Household Net Worth Was Greater Than 2005's -- But You Wouldn't Know That from Reading the Associated Press's Accounts. And this is not the first time AP has ignored what's "real."
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Here is how the Federal Reserve's report on household net worth was covered by AP reporter Jeannine Aversa (bold is mine):
Net Worth of U.S…
Reuters Counts 9/11 Hijackers as 9/11 Victims
March 8th, 2007 6:15 PM
From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel):Another Man's Victim?Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph:
Bias Without Borders: AP and Taiwanese Elections
March 7th, 2007 12:10 AM
A reader with a Taiwanese IP address writes us with a tip about bias from the AP regarding a particular candidate in the presidential election on the island nation, Annette Lu:The opening paragraph of this news article uses the phrase "whom China has called 'insane' and the 'scum of the nation'". What does Lu have anything to do with PRC (mainland China) and deserve to be called insane and scum…
Is the Formerly Mainstream Media Rooting for a Bad Economy
March 1st, 2007 12:25 PM
Two reports from earlier this week, one that warned of a "likely recession," and another that flat-out declared a non-existent "manufacturing recession," have to make you wonder, especially considering a positive report from the real world that came out earlier today.
First -- On Monday, the Associated Press turned murky comments by Alan Greenspan into "Greenspan warns of likely U.S. recession…
