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AP's Scott Walker-Obsessed Bauer Blows Two Easy 'Fact Checks'
January 26th, 2018 4:50 PM
Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker gave his annual State of the State speech Wednesday. Naturally, Scott Bauer at the Associated Press, who has been on a seemingly singular mission to dispute and distort Walker's statements and actions during the Governor's seven years in office, treated absolutely true statements Walker made during that speech as somehow untruthful in a Thursday "Fact…

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NBC Ignores Apple's 20K New Jobs, CBS Censors the Role of Tax Cuts
January 17th, 2018 8:51 PM
The GOP tax cuts scored yet another win on Wednesday when tech giant Apple cited the cuts as a driving factor for their newly announced plans to build a new campus, create 20,000 new jobs, and invest $350 billion in the U.S. economy among other exciting announcements. But despite the great news, NBC Nightly News and Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo failed to cover the story at…

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Bozell Scalds Media Over Ignoring Trump’s Economy; 'They Loathe' Him!
January 12th, 2018 5:56 PM
Speaking on the Friday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Your World, MRC President Brent Bozell came out swinging against the liberal media and their refusal to cover stories of economic growth under President Trump, telling fill-in host Trish Regan they “loathe him” so much that “if he finds a cure for cancer, they'll attack him for not curing AIDS.”

Evening News Shows Fail to Note Record Low Black Jobless Rate
January 12th, 2018 10:23 AM
On Tuesday, Julia Seymour at NewsBusters reported that the Friday evening news shows on all three networks spent a few seconds noting the government's somewhat disappointing but hardly alarming job-creation number for December (148,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs) reported earlier that day. Seymour observed that "Those same news programs (have) often underreported good economic news in the…

All Three Networks Highlight Lower December Jobs Report
Business
January 9th, 2018 4:03 PM
A weaker than expected jobs report managed to capture the attention of the three broadcast networks evening newscasts. That was quite a switch.Those same news programs often underreported good economic news in the past year. ABC World News skipped reporting the jobs report four times in 2017.

After Year of Economic Gains, WashPost Predicts 'Trump Recession
Business
January 8th, 2018 3:57 PM
Liberal Washington Post opinion columnist David Von Drehle is sure President Donald Trump will face “a recession, slump, or God forbid, crash” before the 2020 presidential election — despite the strong economic gains so far under Trump. Von Drehle’s Jan. 5, opinion piece, “The Trump Recession is Coming,” was littered with economic language, but revealed his political bias. Von Drehle himself is…

Yes, Good Economic News was ‘Underreported‘ in 2017
Business
December 19th, 2017 3:05 PM
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders asked on Twitter Dec. 17, “Which is the more underreported story of @Potus Year One? -Defeat of ISIS -Booming Trump economy.”
Her complaint about the economy was certainly correct. In fact, the very next day all three network newscasts ignored the news that the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 5,000 points in a year for the first time in history. CBS…

Top 10 Ways Media Distorted Business, Economic News in 2017
Business
December 18th, 2017 10:27 AM
Liberal media bias has existed for years, but in 2017, it appeared to reach unprecedented levels given the media’s hostility to President Donald Trump. The media distorted many stories in 2017, in many different ways. They ranged from lies such as Al Gore’s claim that “Superstorm Sandy” proved a global warming prediction from An Inconvenient Truth was true, to using Big Bird to mislead about…

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Dos de las seis cadenas noticiosas latinas reportan baja en desempleo
Latino
December 11th, 2017 8:23 PM
El presidente Trump observó que los medios dedican “el menor tiempo posible” a discutir noticias económicas positivas. El juicio del “analista de noticias en jefe” estadounidense también aplica a los medios nacionales hispanoparlantes – un segmento que uno supone tendría particular interés en informar a sus audiencias las últimas cifras sobre el desempleo, ya que el desempleo entre hispanos cayó…

Churlish NYT Refuses to Credit Trump for Economy: 'Tax Cuts May Burn'
December 9th, 2017 4:23 PM
Saturday’s New York Times lead desperately tried to spin away the strong Trump economy by warning of hypothetical dangers from a tax cut plan that’s not passed into law yet or even set in stone yet: “Sizzling Economy Carries Warning: Tax Cuts May Burn – Concerns of Inflation – Jobs Report Lifts Trump but Raises Specter of ‘Boom-Bust Cycle.” It's a churlish pattern on the part of the paper, which…

Help Wanted: World News Spends Half the Time on Jobs As Competitors
Business
December 7th, 2017 1:58 PM
ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir may have clinched the most viewers, but it spent the least amount of time on the nation’s 1.7 million job gains when compared to rivals on CBS and NBC.

National Media Not Interested as Philly Soda Tax Collections Flounder
November 30th, 2017 10:07 AM
In June of last year, with much national media fanfare, the City of Philadelphia passed a dishonestly named "soda tax." The levy of 1.5 cents per ounce, which taxes not only sugar-sweetened beverages but also drinks containing "any form of artificial sugar substitute, including stevia, aspartame, sucralose, neotame, acesulfame potassium (Ace-K), saccharin, and advantame" after it took effect on…

Angry WashPost Gives Pence's True Statement About Jobs '3 Pinocchios'
November 29th, 2017 4:58 PM
In one of the more brazen and fraudulent "fact checks" one will ever see, The Washington Post's Nicole Lewis told readers on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence's absolutely true mid-November statement that "There are more Americans working today than ever before in American history" deserved "Three Pinocchios," and that the audience which applauded this statement should be ashamed of…

Bitter AP: Scott Walker 'Effectively Ended Collective Bargaining'
November 10th, 2017 2:12 PM
On Monday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced that he will seek a third term as Badger State Chief Executive next year. At the Associated Press, Scott Bauer, still bitter over Walker's successful attempt to rein in the power of the state's public-sector unions in 2011, falsely insisted, as he has for over 6-1/2 years, that Walker's Act 10 legislation "effectively ended collective…