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WaPo Reports Vandalism of Crosses Used in Pro-Life Demonstration, Fail
The Washington Post's Susan Kinzie whipped up a 12-paragraph Metro section article for the February 3 paper on an apology by George Washington University College Democrats for the action of an unnamed member who defaced crosses used by the campus Young America's Foundation chapter for a recent pro-life demonstration.Kinzie then noted that student "admitted responsibility and had been expelled"…
Newest Economic Indicator: Comic Strip Character Dilbert Gets Fired
Your newspaper's comic page isn't even immune to the news of economic hardship the country is experiencing - iconic cartoon character Dilbert was let go from his job. Dilbert creator Scott Adams appeared on the Feb. 2 "CNBC Reports" to explain why. "Well, you know his company was slowing down just like everybody else's company has been slowing down and he didn't have much to do, so he started…
Media Mostly Ignore Stimulus's 'Buy American' Depression Precedent
The stimulus package being discussed on Capitol Hill contains a "Buy American" provision that smells a tad like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 which most economists believe turned a bad recession into the Great Depression.Despite such overtones, press members on this side of the Atlantic have mostly failed to make this connection, or, at the very least, chosen not to share it with their…
Majority Oppose Obama's Decisions on Gitmo and Abortion
Americans aren't pleased with President Barack Obama's decisions to close Guantanamo Bay and to fund overseas abortions.Will media notice?Such seems an important question given press fascination with virtually any poll showing how popular the new president is. Will they report when his decisions aren't? Consider the following data released by Gallup Monday:
Hollywood to Produce Yet Another Leftwing Box Office Bomb
Tell me if this movie doesn't have "bomb" written all over it. First of all it is being written by Aaron Sorkin. Secondly it is being produced by George Clooney. Finally, the movie theme has BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) at its center. Is this not the perfect formula for yet another leftwing movie that is destined to die at the box office? How long before Hollywood finally figures out that such…
Dear NY Times: Hoover's Spirit Alive in Obama
Obama and Congress look to protectionism, higher taxes on the wealthy just like Hoover.
Dear NY Times: Let's Not Create Another Bubble
Rich's op-ed complains about the jobs mirage caused by the housing bubble, but fails to criticize the stimulus package for doing the same.
ACORN Gets $2,000,000 from Bailed Out Bank of America
Will media pursue beleaguered financial institutions charitable contribution to controversial organization as they have with executive compensation?
Public Pans Obama's Abortion Action
Gallup finds Obama's overseas abortion funding decision least popular. Will media continue its silence on the issue?
Chi.Trib: Labeling One Group 'Conservative' But Not IDing the Liberal
We have here a classic case of liberal bias in the Old Media. It isn't as dramatic as may others that we have seen since The One came onto the national scene, but it is the sort of bias that has been endemic in the Old Media for a very long time. In a February 1 story in the Chicago Tribune, we find the old trick of naming a think tank as a source, but not mentioning that it is a liberal think…
ABC Indicates Successful, Safe Election Means 'End' to Iraq War
An epochal media moment Monday night on ABC’s World News? In an upbeat story about the election in Iraq “with virtually no violence,” reporter Jim Sciutto raised the possibility the war is now over -- just in time to enable President Barack Obama to fulfill his promise to reduce troop levels -- as Sciutto asked a member of Iraq's parliament: “Is this the end of the war?” Mahmoud Othman cautiously…
