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AP's 'Workers Giving Up' Claim Goes from 'Perhaps' to 'Fact
.... and in 24 Hours, with No Credible Support In a report from the presidential campaign trail in Wyoming early Saturday morning, Sara Kugler of the Associated Press picked up on an economic meme created out of whole cloth by one of her colleagues, and treated it as an undisputed fact -- all in the name of creating support for campaign rhetoric coming from one of the two remaining Democratic…
Media Matters Book Says 'Free Ride' for McCain: 'Oops, Bad Timing
In Sunday’s Washington Post Book World, senior editor Alan Cooperman reviewed four new political books in brief, including a new book from Media Matters for America titled Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman. Cooperman concluded that, oops, the title doesn’t match the rough reporting coming out from newspapers on McCain’s alleged hypocrisy (and adultery?) with…
AP Implicates Vice President Cheney in Iraq Water Problem
One of the truly disgraceful media fixations since America invaded Iraq five years ago has been to blame all the world's problems on energy contractor Halliburton while making it clear that Vice President Dick Cheney used to be its Chief Executive Officer.Despite it being almost eight years since Cheney resigned his position with the contracting giant and sold all of his stock, Halliburton-…
Oprah Abandoned 'The Hot-Flash Cohort
Look for NOW to be setting up picket lines outside Rush's Southern Command, protesting the way Limbaugh has demeaned mature women, writing them off as the "hot-flash cohort."Outrageous! When will these right-wing men realize we will no longer tolerate their misogynist --What? It wasn't Rush? It was that avatar of elite liberal thought Tina Brown, writing in Newsweek? Never mind.Here's how…
'Saturday Night Live' Stumps for Hillary for Third Week in a Row
With political pundits across the fruited plain believing that NBC's "Saturday Night Live" transformed the Democrat presidential campaign by exposing media's love affair with Barack Obama as well as their apparent disdain for Hillary Clinton, one has to wonder just how far the program's producers and writers are willing to go to advance their candidate of choice.After all, for the third week in…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking points:How much did "Saturday Night Live" effect the Democrat presidential campaign as well as media's coverage of Barack Obama? Did the show have an impact on voters in Ohio and Texas as well as on the press? Is it a sad state of affairs in our nation when media need to be chided by a comedy show in order to actually do their jobs?How much of a…
Michelle Obama’s ‘Mean America’ Statement Gets a Nearly Free Med
On Wednesday, NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard noted the following comments by Michelle Obama in her recent New Yorker Magazine profile by Lauren Collins: Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. "We have…
ABC's Wright: 'Trouble Is' Ads Like Hillary's 3 AM Work
Ads like Hillary's "it's 3 AM" work--and that's a problem. At least in the view of David Wright it is. As I described here, the ABC reporter doesn't work particularly hard to keep his Obama light under a basket.Wright-the-ABC-Obamacan was back at it today. GMA ran a segment featuring Casey Knowles, whose image as an eight-year old was used in Hillary's ad. Knowles has since grown up to be an…
Anyone Wishing to Evaluate John McCain Won't Get Old Media Help
It's not exactly a secret that John McCain is not admired by conservatives for a variety of reasons. The conventional wisdom is that the Arizona Senator and GOP presidential nominee needs to mend some, uh, fences (warning: profanity at link) with many in his party. Fair enough, but a word to the wise, and this is relevant regardless of personal ideology: If either McCain himself, or anyone who…
ABC: 'Drop in the Unemployment Rate is Bad News
ABC's "World News Tonight" had a hard time on Friday without normal anchor Charles Gibson, as in its segment about the employment numbers released by the Labor Department, guest host George Stephanopoulos said the figures were from January 2008.This was stated as a graphic came on the screen reading "JOBS LOST, January 2008, 63,000." Of course, Labor's report was for the month of February.Sadly,…
Cheney Derangement Syndrome Strikes the Chicago Sun Times
You seriously have to question why the mainstream media feels compelled to hire activists to pose as reporters in their precious newspapers. I contemplated taking the higher road in this article and setting emotion aside. But I feel compelled to call it like it is. Why should I or anyone else sit idly by while feckless reporters such as Abdon M. Pallash of the Chicago Sun Times use the power of…