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Where Poverty's Rise Ends, Slanted Coverage Continues
Media ignore or downplay income increases and halt in poverty's rise, insisting worker pay is dropping.
What Real Authoritarianism Looks Like
As regular readers of NewsBusters know, a fairly large number of
leftists in this country are convinced that George W. Bush is hell-bent
on destroying America and turning it into a dictatorship where
mandatory worship of "neocons" is required and media outlets are
censored. Liberal figures such as Al Gore, Keith Olbermann, and regulars at places like Democratic Underground and Daily Kos…
Rosie on Day Two of ‘The View:’ Attacking Rush And Promoting a Gay
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On her first day, new co-host Rosie O’Donnell
muted (slightly) some of her well known liberalism. On September 6,
only her second appearance, she made a crack about Rush Limbaugh’s
prescription drug problem
and promoted a gay ‘Survivor.’ O’Donnell was discussing, shockingly,
Tom Cruise when co-host Joy Behar swerved a conversation on
prescription drugs into…
NBC Spins Oil Discovery Negatively
Reporter Savidge focuses on complaints from environmental lobby but leaves out NRDC's anti-drilling bent.
The Beeb Who Cried Wolf
Last month, bloggers
(including NB's Bob
Owens), caught the BBC flat-out admitting its complicity in a
staged photo shoot with a Lebanese boy posing next to what the
broadcast said was an "Israeli bomb lying unexploded" in someone's
living room.
Admitting to participating in news manipulation was bad enough and
doing it while endangering a child was even worse. Further compounding
things,…