Matthews Rolls Red Carpet for Bush-Bashing Bartlett

Gibson's Gloomy Hello On ABC: Thank Your Stars If You Can Afford Heat

Looking, Desperately, for the Union Label

Washington Post Again Puts Good Economic News on D-1, Bad News on A

Polar Bears Said to be Starving - and It's Wicked George W's Fault

Ironic Media Position Follows Bush’s Declaration of Oil Addiction

Fox News Business Analyst Mentions Impeachment, Nazi Germany

Americans Becoming More Unequal

ABC and CBS Ignore Plunge in Unemployment Rate to Lowest Since Before

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that the unemployment rate for January fell by 0.2 percent from December, down to 4.7 percent, the lowest level since July of 2001. But viewers of ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News on Friday night heard nothing about it, though ABC had time for another full story on the “cartoon outrage” by Muslims and a full piece on an Institute for…

AP Reports Very Good Jobs News, Then Gets In Its Obligatory Digs

Day After Hitting Budget "Cuts," Post's Weisman Rues "Cost" of Tax Cut

A Closer Look at Tom Shales' Claim: "Bush Worst Pres. Since Hoover

Media’s GDP Reports Grossly Unproductive

It turns out that media coverage of the nation’s economic growth can vary a lot depending on how strong or weak the economy is doing. Strong numbers are downplayed or undermined and weak numbers like the fourth-quarter results are highlighted in some of the major media.The Commerce Department released the fourth-quarter Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) January 27, and the 1.1 percent growth was…

Harry Smith Paddles Dan Bartlett And Coddles Ted Kennedy In Speech Pre