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Obama Economic Adviser Warns Spending Could Create Double Digit Inflat
Harvard economist Martin Feldstein tells FOX Business Network Fed creation of 'high-powered' reserves will result in inflation, higher taxes.
CNN Admits 'Cap and Trade' Will Cost, in Earth Day 'Energy Fix
Poppy Harlow mentions EPA estimate of higher energy prices, but doesn't include other projections and criticisms of legislation.
GOP Strategist Complains About MSNBC Coverage of Tea Parties
"MSNBC News Live" host Norah O'Donnell on Wednesday dismissed the tea party rallies that took place across the country last week as "top down" and not organic, prompting a complaint from a Republican strategist over the network's coverage. The discussion arose during an interview with GOP strategist Karen Hanretty and a Democratic operative over the leadership of the Republican Party. After…
Coverage of Arrest in Cincy-Area Quadruple Murders Finally Uses the 'I
A grisly late 2007 quadruple-murder case in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville has apparently been solved with the arrest of Santiago Moreno. Moreno apparently brutally stabbed his four other apartment mates with near-surgical precision. It is horrible that these men died. It is great news that the monster who did it has apparently been caught. What is hard to understand is why after nearly 1-1…
Did the NYT Bury an Inconvenient Torture Memo Story
Did the NYT bury reporter Peter Baker's story on a memo written by Obama's own national intelligence director, suggesting that harsh interrogation methods had proved effective in understanding Al Qaeda? Washington Examiner journalist Byron York has his suspicions.From Baker's 850-word online story, "Banned Techniques Yielded 'High Value Information,' Memo Says, " which has rocketed across the…
Newsweek Highlights Woman Who Claims Industrialization Enslaved West V
Oh for the good old days when West Virginia was full of mountaineers who lived off the land. You know, before those evil coal companies came and enslaved the state to its grimey grasp.That's the view of Julia Bonds, an environmental activist from the Mountain State whom Newsweek's Daniel Stone featured in an April 21 Web-exclusive interview.Not once in his story did Stone press Bonds on specifics…
Aww! Obama Tears Up Over Letters from Public, NYT Reports
New York Times reporter Ashley Parker, who specializes in soft profiles of Obama's staff, certainly made the president look good in her Monday look at Mike Kelleher, director of the Office of Correspondence at the White House -- he reads letters sent to the White House and passes a fortunate few on to Obama himself. Parker passed along a couple of tear-jerking anecdotes from the White House PR…
CBS’s Smith: Bush Interrogation Methods Caused Abu Ghraib
On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith resurrected the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, connecting it to the current debate over interrogation methods used toward terror suspects under the Bush administration: "Torture on trial. In a major shift, President Obama now says he is open to investigating Bush administration officials for crimes related to torture...We'll talk to the former…
Media Helps Activists in Aggressive Push to Embrace Homosexuality
April 17 marked the 13th annual "Day of Silence," a gay rights protest event sponsored by GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) that takes place in schools across the nation. Of course, gay groups can afford to be silent for a day, because they have the mainstream news media to speak for them. "Day of Silence" is, according to the event's Web site, "a student-led national event…
Gainor's Testimony on 'A New Age' for Newspapers
Newspapers are a dying breed because of technology and disappearance of neutrality in reporting.
Raleigh News & Observer Employees Openly Mock McClatchy CEO Gary Pruit
One measure of how far newspapers in general and McClatchy newspapers in particular have fallen is a mock newspaper front page (image below the fold) created by workers at the Raleigh News & Oberver making fun of their McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt (photo). Pruitt, who went on a disastrous spending spree a few years ago buying up doomed newspapers, including the Miami Herald, is widely credited…
