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CNN's Velshi Argues Boosting Minimum Wage Could Boost the Economy
Business reporter says higher-paid workers will spend more, but fails to take into account lost jobs, lost hours, lost profitability from businesses.
Post's Givhan Continues Complaint about Skinny Models
Writer attacks industry for thin model preference, but could just as well gripe about customers who drive the New York market.
Fox News’s ‘Anderson Cooper is Paris Hilton’ Ad Angers CNN
As the Beatles sang years ago, It’s getting better all the time.Forget about this Sunday's Super Bowl, sports fans. World War III in the arena of cable news is raging on, and the players have started taking prisoners. As NewsBusters reported here and here, the most recent escalation between heavyweight Fox News and steadily becoming also-ran CNN started when the former took out an ad in…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 27 to February
When it comes to the subject of global warming, members of the media have lost all restraint. CNN’s Larry King nervously wondered if climate change might "really kill us all?" Could it "submerge cities like New York and Washington and San Francisco under floods from melting Arctic ice caps?" Not to be outdone, "Good Morning America’s" weatherman warned of the dire threat of global warming. The…
King Tut's Hummer: ABC Says Temp Increase 'Greatest in Thousands of Y
GMA's segment this morning on the big global warming confab in Paris was filled with predictably alarmist rhetoric. But one factoid slipped through the MSM filter that could put a chill on the "it's-all-man's-fault" view of the matter: thousands of years ago, global warming exceeded anything we're currently experiencing. Oh, and did you know the result of global warming is . . . fewer…
Friday’s Law & Order: Coulter Character 'Causes' Murder, Has Drinks
The plot of tonight’s (Friday) Law & Order on NBC will revolve around a “right-wing” character who is clearly inspired by Ann Coulter and who brags about having a drink with “Rush.” In a 20 second promo aired this week for the February 2 episode that will air at 10pm EST/PST, the announcer touts how “a controversial speaker causes a campus shooting.” A detective calls the Coulter character “…
Super Bowl Promoters Make Offensive Calls
NFL cracks down on a church, but plays footsie with a racy advertiser.
MRC/NB’s Bozell on FNC’s Hannity & Colmes About NY Times Photo of
Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which operates NewsBusters, appeared Thursday night, with Rachel Sklar of the Huffington Post, on FNC’s Hannity & Colmes. Topic: The publication by the New York Times on Monday of a picture of a dying U.S. soldier in Iraq, suffering from a head wound, being carried on a stretcher. Sklar and Bozell had very different answers for how they’d…