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NYT Starts Selling Ads on Front Page , Reports on it Themselves
In a story published by the New York Times about the New York Times it was revealed that they will start accepting display ads on their front page (h/t Hot Air). The NYT broke the news in an odd third person kind of way: In its latest concession to the worst revenue slide since the Depression, The New York Times has begun selling display advertising on its front page, a step that has become…
January 6th, 2009 1:00 AM
NBC’s Mitchell Recounts Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat’s Wife
On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell filed a report that reminded viewers of an embarrassing political episode from Hillary Clinton’s past: the controversial hug and kiss she shared with Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha, during a trip to the West Bank. The NBC correspondent related that Clinton had taken a position favoring a Palestinian state early on, but, after her…
January 5th, 2009 6:34 PM
NBC Examines Plight of Israelis Terrorized by Hamas Rockets
On Sunday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Martin Fletcher gave rare attention to the plight of Israelis who live in the towns of Sderot and Ashkelon, which have for years been frequent targets of rockets fired from Gaza by Hamas because of their relative proximity to the Gaza Strip. Devoting an entire report to the issue in which he informed viewers of how many years the rocket attacks have…
January 5th, 2009 5:23 PM
Bonnie Erbe Rails Against Men for Sexism in Opposing Caroline Kennedy
Is that? [sniff] No, couldn't be. [sniff][sniff] Yup, I thought I smelled paranoid liberal.Taxpayer-financed journalist Bonnie Erbe smells a rat, namely the plurality of men in a recent poll who dared declare Caroline Kennedy unfit for serving in the U.S. Senate. From the PBS "To the Contrary" host's December 31 blog post at US News & World Report:No one should feign surprise at a new poll…
January 5th, 2009 5:16 PM
Dear Chicago Trib: U.S. Should Be Shangri-la
If spending makes the economy go-round, decades of overspending should have created a paradise - it didn't.
January 5th, 2009 4:38 PM
EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon.
January 5th, 2009 3:55 PM
Liberal Blogosphere Duped By 3-Year-Old 'Gaza Bombing Video
Just how badly do many liberal bloggers want to depict Israelis as heartless killers and Hamas as poor defenseless victims?On Sunday, a more than three year old video of an accidental munitions truck explosion at a Palestinian rally in September 2005 was spread around the liberal blogosphere as footage of an Israeli attack on Gaza on January 3, 2009.Two prominent leftwing websites -- Raw Story…
January 5th, 2009 3:17 PM
CNN and WaPo's Sally Quinn Gush Over Obama Kids' 'Magical' New School
CNN correspondent Joe Johns’ report on Monday’s American Morning heaped praise upon Sidwell Friends School, the new school for the Obama daughters. Johns read from one of the school’s own mission statements about its “Quaker values” and later described how President-Elect Obama apparently “often seems in tune with Quaker principles -- seeking consensus with others; talking rather than fighting…
January 5th, 2009 2:37 PM
WaPo, BaltSun Hail Outgoing 'Independent' Republicans
On the eve of the 111st Congress's first day of business, the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun aimed to send off outgoing capital-area legislators Sen. John Warner (Va.) and Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (Md.) by piling praise on the moderate-to-liberal Republicans for their "independence" (read: opposition to conservative Republicans). The January 5 Washington Post heralded outgoing Sen. John Warner (R-…
January 5th, 2009 2:00 PM
CBS’s Schieffer to Cheney: ‘Is Anything President Does Legal
On Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer seemed to be acting out a scene from Frost/Nixon as he questioned Vice Presdient Dick Cheney about the terrorist surveillance program: "Do you feel you went too far, Mr. Vice President, in your surveillance?...Do you -- do you believe that the president, in time of war, that anything he does is legal?" Cheney shot back with some historical…
January 5th, 2009 1:31 PM