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AP's Sheehan Coverage Gets Worse
I wrote a week and a half ago that the AP was acting as a PR firm for Cindy Sheehan. It doesn't appear that anything's changed. At all. If anything, it has gotten worse. They're still refusing to run with any of the controversial statements that she's made. They've not reported her comments on Hardball that "we should have gone after al Qaeda and maybe not after the country of Afghanistan…
The Business of Rebuilding
Network news gives little time to Americans generosity, as businesses use their profits to help the needy.
The Media Spin: Bring Out the Tea Leaves
Global warming is in fashion today, but veteran journalist David Goodnow remembers when we once feared another little ice age.
Econ 101: Are Housing Prices Too High
Professor Gary Wolfram explains the economics behind pricing and the housing bubble.
Media Take a Bite Out of CAFE Guidelines
Government proposes new light truck, SUV fuel standards, but media highlight critics.
Networks Send Plaintiffs Message to Drugmakers
Media continue lopsided coverage of litigation in Vioxx verdict.
NYT Sees Kyoto Failure Everywhere
New York Times reporter Anthony DePalma today perfectly demonstrates the mantra of much of the modern press: Never pass up an opportunity to bash Bush.In his front-page story entitled “9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants,” Mr. DePalma adroitly accomplishes this credo in paragraph two:The cooperative action, the first of its kind in the nation, came after the Bush administration…