Windfall Tax, Anyone

The Free Market Project has noticed of late how the media are warming back up to the notion of a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies. The windfall profits tax was a hotter topic in the months after Katrina, but the idea didn't stick then. But now with a new session of Congress, a State of the Union address on the way, and 2005 profit reports running over the wires, the push to soak "Big Oil…
Ken Shepherd
 

Harry Smith Paddles Dan Bartlett And Coddles Ted Kennedy In Speech Pre

Michael Rule
 

Bozell Column: The Tennis Tempest At ABC

Brent Bozell
 

CBS Whitewashes the Carter Record In "Sunday Morning" Interview

Michael Rule
 

NYT: Alito Tilts "Court to the Right," But Ruth Bader Ginsburg was App

Clay Waters
 

Medias GDP Reports Grossly Unproductive

Quarterly economic numbers typically get ignored, downplayed and hyped.
Noel Sheppard
 

Media Emphasize Exxon Profit, Restart Focus on Windfall Taxes

But study finds Uncle Sam makes a killing off gas taxes already.
Ken Shepherd
 

Washington Post "Previews" State Of The Union Address With "Humor

The Washington Post has chosen to run on their opinion page this morning, in advance of tonight's State Of The Union Address, an apparent attempt at humor from someone named David Atkins. It's a mocking, snarky piece, that is, unfortunately for the Post, not close enough to reality to actually be funny. Written in the first person voice of President Bush, though strangely lacking in malaprop and…
Lyford Beverage
 

Is USA Today’s Kathy Kiely Obsessed, or Is It Just a Glitch

Tom Blumer
 

Despite Months of a Media Full-Court Press, Alito Is Confirmed

Noel Sheppard
 

Eleanor Clift Sniffs: Bush "Not Interested In Winning Bipartisan Suppo

Tim Graham
 

Was This on GMA or al-Jazeera

Brian Boyd
 

Gibson's Kid Gloves for Kennedy; Andrea Mitchell: Hamas Victory a 'Dis

Mark Finkelstein
 

Slate's Shafer: Ted Koppel Stinks As A Columnist, His First Piece a "D

Tim Graham