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Media Mostly Ignore German and Hungarian Tax Cuts
The government of Hungary voted to cut income taxes Monday to pull itself out of recession, and America's media for the most part ignored it.At the same time, German chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for lower taxes to help her nation's economy, and our press have similarly been less than enthusiastic about sharing the news.One of the exceptions in both cases is the Wall Street Journal which…
Liberal New Republic Article Actually Makes Sense on Honduras 'Coup
The left can try to brush off articles in the Wall Street Journal or the National Review about the "coup" in Honduras as "rightwing propaganda." However, they will have a much harder time applying such a label to an article about the ouster of Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya (in photo with Hugo Chavez), which appeared in the very liberal New Republic.President Obama and Secretary of State…
YouTube's 'How To' on Citizen Journalism Filled With Lefty Media Types
Apparently, YouTube doesn't think that a conservative journalist has anything to say to help all you budding citizen journalists out there. A glance at the denizens of the Old Media offered up as journalism experts on the Internet video giant will show a long list of well known lefties with not a single center or center right professional in the mix.
On April 30, YouTube set up a channel…
Will ABC's Knocks on the Stimulus Get Past 'The Note
ABC's online "The Note" describes itself as "Washington's Original and Most Influential Tipsheet." ABC News's Senior Political Reporter Richard Klein is its current content creator. We'll see how influential "The Note" really is if what Klein writes about the machinations behind the attempt to make us forget that the Obama stimulus plan was supposedly going to be making some kind of difference…
ABC Ignores Obama's Hypocritical Stance on Gay Marriage
Website neglects to mention president's support of traditional wedlock.
CBS Frames New Haven as 'Conservative' Justices vs 'Civil Rights Leade
In the midst of pretty balanced ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscast stories on the Ricci reverse discrimination case involving New Haven firefighters, who were victorious, one quibble: CBS's Wyatt Andrews framed the ruling as issued by the Supreme Court's “conservative” justices and opposed not by liberals but by “civil rights leaders,” as if the majority of justices who ruled against the racial…
DUers Invent Highly Laughable Excuses to Explain Fox News Ratings Succ
Few things drive the denizens of the Democratic Underground into a frenzy like the mere mention of Fox News. Therefore, as you can expect, a story in the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News set for best year yet, sent the members of what they call the "reality-based community" into some very unreal yet highly entertaining reactions to that unwelcome news. But before we allow the DUers to take the comedy…
Wikipedia Helps NYT Cover Up Reporter's Capture
Wikipedia can be a vehicle for tearing down barriers and democratizing information. Unless the New York Times is involved. Just as the Times was able to keep 40 other media organizations from reporting on the capture of their own David Rohde, so too were they able to keep Wikipedia from reporting it. They also used his Wikipedia page to try to win favor with the Taliban. Just three days after…
CBS’s Schieffer: Should Republicans ‘Shift’ Away From Social Iss
In an interview with Republican Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Sunday, CBS’s Bob Schieffer wondered: "Do you think that Republicans now should sort of shift the emphasis, though, from stressing social and family values and shift to more – to economic issues and be a party of economic conservatives rather than putting so much emphasis on these social issues?"Schieffer began the Face the…