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Networks Use Bridge Tragedy to Build Support for Higher Taxes
Journalists blame taxpayers, not government incompetence, for infrastructure problems.
Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coo
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a…
Facebook Feature Plagued With Outdated Headlines; GOP Ones Skew Negati
While looking at a friend's profile on Facebook today shortly after 10 a.m., I spotted her "Election '08" application which proudly lists her support for the Republican Party in 2008. Immediately below are three of the "latest politics headlines" on Newsvine.com, the Web site that created and manages the Facebook application. Yet the headlines were hardly the "latest" and had nothing to do with…
Open Thread
Possible discussion point: How's "global warming" impacting your summer?This has been possibly the coolest summer in Northern California in at least 20 years. The weather in Texas has been so cold that the cotton crop is in danger. England hasn't even had a summer yet, and meteorologists there are predicting a very early start to fall. Parts of the southern hemisphere are experiencing the…
Bill Clinton: Wall Street Journal Editorials Even More 'Irrational' Th
While Hillary Clinton was assuring the union crowd last night that she knows how to battle the "right-wing machine," Huffington Post blogger Blake Fleetwood reports that Bill Clinton is still taking on the Clinton-challenging media machine. At a fundraiser closed to reporters (but not to bloggers?), the former president asserted "the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is even more right…
'Today': NY Times Goes to Bat for Bonds
When New-York based "Today" went looking for a local sports reporter to defend Barry Bonds the morning after he set the career home run record, it didn't turn to the New York Post, whose headline this morning reads JUNK BONDS: ‘SULTAN OF SYRINGE'. Nor was it likely that the designated hitter would be someone from the Daily News, whose back page screams "King of Shame." Instead, "Today" looked…