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Medias GDP Reports Grossly Unproductive
Quarterly economic numbers typically get ignored, downplayed and hyped.
Media Emphasize Exxon Profit, Restart Focus on Windfall Taxes
But study finds Uncle Sam makes a killing off gas taxes already.
Washington Post "Previews" State Of The Union Address With "Humor
The Washington Post has chosen to run on their opinion page this morning, in advance of tonight's State Of The Union Address, an apparent attempt at humor from someone named David Atkins. It's a mocking, snarky piece, that is, unfortunately for the Post, not close enough to reality to actually be funny. Written in the first person voice of President Bush, though strangely lacking in malaprop and…
CNN’s Amanpour: "The War in Iraq Has Basically Turned Out to Be a Di
“The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster,” Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, declared from London live on Monday’s Larry King Live. In the segment in which journalists discussed the serious injury from a bomb in Iraq to ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, she lamented how “journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of…
CBS’s Reminder: “Don't Forget that Other Washington Scandal, CIA L
CBS decided that the night before President Bush’s State of the Union address would be a good time to launch its “State of the...” series with a look at the "State of the Scandals," a judgment which allowed the CBS Evening News to revive the Plame case. Gloria Borger insisted that “on the eve of the President's State of the Union speech, official Washington is distracted, not by policy debates…