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Sawyer's Sympathy for the Syrian Dictator
Imagine that during the days of apartheid in South Africa, Diane Sawyer had just completed an interview of the white leader of the regime. What are the odds she would have emerged to inform viewers, in sympathetic tones, that the leader had reminded her of an old Afrikaaner saying to the effect that change must come slowly? Yet that's just what Diane did after her interview with Syrian…
LA Times Gives Readers One-Sided Budget Story, Leaves Out Source's Par
It's budget time again, kids. And you know what that means. News stories that hype liberal talking points about President Bush being stingy with our tax dollars.Were that the case, many fiscal conservatives might say, but you won't find any attention paid them in Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar's February 5 article. The Times staff writer cited complaints from Democratic Rep. Pete Stark (D), and of…
ABC Hits Home Run with New Segment on Faith
Woman who refused an abortion and delivered a child conceived through rape is treated with sensitivity.
NBC and the Cancer Vaccine that Isn't
Gardasil is a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease, not against cancer – the media should start getting the story right.
Katie Couric Highlights 4th Anniversary of Powell's 'Embarrassment' at
CBS's news judgment: Monday's CBS Evening News devoted a first segment story to, as anchor Katie Couric put it, the “irony” that the Senate debate over resolutions on the Iraqi surge occurred “four years to the day” after Colin Powell made his presentation at the UN which “became an embarrassment.” Couric asked and answered: “And how's this for irony? Today's Capitol Hill confrontation began…
CNN Reporters Won't Take Professor's Word on Middle Class
The economy is strong, but 'In the Money' panel looks for every negative possibility, pushes liberal talking points.
NY Times Iraq Reporter Corrects Russert: 'American Troops Were Greeted
Reminded by Tim Russert on Russert's Saturday night CNBC show, about how Vice President Cheney predicted U.S. troops would be welcomed as “liberators” by the Iraqi people, New York Times Iraq reporter John Burns corrected Russert's presumption that Cheney was misguided: “The American troops were greeted as liberators. We saw it. It lasted very briefly, it was exhausted quickly by the looting.”…