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Media Pile on Airlines over 'Safety Concerns
Network news shows finally get on board with criticism of Federal Aviation Administration.
Econ 101: ElectionWatch: Presidents Shouldn't Have 'Plans
Candidates race to present plans for the economy, education, health care and global warming - but a planned economy has never worked before.
Washington Examiner CEO: Free Content Key to Newspaper Success
Michael Phelps advocates editorial posture 'slightly right of center' and 'pro-business.'
Absolut Bias: Leftists Fail to Keep Ad Controversy Out Of Wikipedia
More news from the front of the Wiki Wars, the ideological battle for the soul of Wikipedia: it seems left-wingers at the online encyclopedia site are angry that anyone would want to mention Absolut's reconquista controversy in the vodka maker's article.How do we know this? From reading the "Talk" page for the Wikipedia entry "Absolut Vodka," where people can discuss the article and changes they'…
Dowd: Condi 'Instrumental in 9/11 Blunder
As accusations against Americans go, surely there's none more serious than that of responsibility for 9/11. Yet Maureen Dowd has seen fit to level just such a charge against Condi Rice en passant: as a simple afterthought, no explanation offered.There I was this morning reading Maureen's musings on yesterday's hearings with Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. Pretty standard Dowd fare: a…
Boston Globe Celebrates Feelings Above Education
We no longer educate in the United States of America. No, instead of making to educate our children we emot-ucate them. It's all about our children's tender egos, their vaunted self esteem, their itty bitty feewings. We don't want them to know or understand so much as we want them to "feel good" about themselves. If they don't know during what years the civil war was fought, that's OK as long as…
YouTube's Great Influence, for Good and for Ill
Inspiring 'Last Lecture' and vicious cheerleaders both go viral.
NBC Stacks Deck Against Petraeus -- and Takes a Shot at McCain Too
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams led Tuesday's newscast by listing the burden of the Iraq war in years, troops, deaths and cost before Jim Miklaszewski, unlike reporters on ABC and CBS, found it newsworthy to show a man, in the Senate hearing for General David Petraeus, shouting “bring them home!” In the next story, Andrea Mitchell decided to highlight, again unlike ABC or CBS, how John…