Dobbs: Clinton White House Would Be Praised for Today’s Economy
For years, NewsBusters and its parent, the Media Research Center, have been reporting on the disparity in economic coverage by mainstream media outlets during the Clinton and Bush administrations. In the past seven years, economic data that would have been praised when Bill Clinton was in the White House has continually been presented as recessionary, or even depression-like. With that in…
BMI Director Dan Gainor on ‘Fox and Friends
Just in time for Thanksgiving, BMI Director Dan Gainor stopped by ‘Fox and Friends' to remind everyone that the economy is not as bad as people think, and that despite what the media said about your Thanksgiving dinner, it wasn't that bad. "If you look at the inflation-adjusted number, it [Thanksgiving dinner] is actually 9 percent cheaper over the last 20 years," Gainor said…
Update: Welfare Rolls Still Plunging After All These Years, and Still
OVERVIEW: An underappreciated accomplishment of the past six years has been the continued reduction in the number of people on welfare.The welfare caseload, after declining dramatically in the first four years after Welfare Reform was enacted, might have been expected to level off, or even rise slightly with overall population growth, after the initial impact of the 1996 law wore off. After all,…
Stop the Presses: AP Reporter Changes Tune on Deficit Causes
Is Associated Press economics writer Martin Crutsinger quietly converting to supply-side economics? This is noteworthy, because Crutsinger has usually been the go-to reporter for uncalled-for gloom and doom about the economy for at least the past few years (a few examples are here, here, here, and here). Here are the specifics about Crutsinger's possible epiphany. In May, covering the record US…
WaPo's Pearlstein: Fred Thompson a 'Joke,' and a 'Nothing-burger
Never doubt the left-wing tilt of the Washington Post - even the Business section. Today's Steven Pearlstein column delivered the almost universal left-wing outlook on yesterday's GOP debate. It was bad enough that moderator Chris Matthews didn't ask enough business/economy questions - choosing instead to dwell on capturing Osama or inside baseball about politics. But Pearlstein took a noxious…
Rangel’s Massive Tax-Increase Plan Gets Nearly Zero Old Media Covera
Did you realize that Congressman Charles Rangel fully intends to enact a massive tax increase this year? Oh, you thought that the Harlem representative only wants to fix and/or eliminate the dreadful Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). If you know otherwise, it's probably only because you read Robert Novak's September 17 syndicated column, which is the only meaningful coverage of Mr. Rangel's plans I…
Clift Frets Over 'Right-wing, Libertarian Refusal to Let Government Sp
Add Newsweek's Eleanor Clift to the list of journalists who ludicrously believe opposition to tax hikes has left the nation unable to repair infrastructure. On the McLaughlin Group over the weekend, she blamed crumbling infrastructure on how “now we have this tax-averse society, rallied by the Republicans, tax-averse where everything becomes sort of a right-wing, libertarian refusal to let…
Google Puts Laughing Bush by Headline ‘Children May Lose Out On Insu
Whether an accident or intentional, the placing of a picture of President George W. Bush laughing next to the headline "Children May Lose On Insurance" is rather deplorable, especially since the picture was not from the article in question. However, that's what occurred at Google News' Health section Wednesday morning when the featured article was the Boston Globe's piece by Alice Dembner…
