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NY Times and AP Portray Shopping Season As So-So At Best
Washington Post and IBD report strong shopping data which other papers leave out
Spying on CNN
Did the NSA, the government's international communications monitoring arm, spy on CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour? Lots of lefty blogs are upset about the possibility (see the Moderate Voice's listing of them).
Apparently, the fuss started with a transcript of an "NBC Nightly News" interview with New York Times reporter James Risen, according to NBC, accidentally included a question and answer…
Newsweek "Explains" Media’s Desire to Make All Economic News Depress
On a regular basis, economic data released by the various government agencies responsible for doing such things is depicted negatively by America’s mainstream media. From unemployment to inflation to housing prices, regardless of the facts, the press typically report nothing but gloom and doom.Robert Samuelson in this week’s issue of Newsweek candidly informed readers why. After giving a synopsis…
Relaying NYT’s Snide Take, ABC’s Woodruff Derides Bush’s Outreac
Journalists have eagerly passed along, and themselves formulated, complaints that President Bush is too isolated (ie Newsweek’s “Bush in a bubble”). But after, at his invitation, 13 former Secretaries of State and Defense came to the White House Thursday for a briefing on Iraq and a chance to give Bush and his top foreign policy officials their feedback, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff copied from a…
On Jobless Claims Report, AP's Crutsinger Discounts the Present, and G
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger has been on the opposite of a roll:Just before Christmas, he appeared to be lowballing the consensus estimate of 4th Quarter 2005 GDP growth by describing it as "around 3 percent," when a broad-based Bloomberg survey of economists indicated a consensus forecast of 3.3%. Second, he pooh-poohed November's Construction Spending report released two days ago…