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ABC’s David Muir: Caroline Kennedy 'Opening Up' ...About Her iPod
ABC correspondent David Muir offered an admiring “window into Camelot” on Monday’s Good Morning America as he reported on U.S. Senate aspirant Caroline Kennedy’s interviews with New York media over the past weekend: “Caroline Kennedy, opening up, calling herself an unconventional choice, offering personal reflections, knowing the political fight that lies ahead.” However, instead of focusing on…
December 29th, 2008 3:43 PM
Dear NY Times: Speaking of Ponzi Schemes
Social Security is 'identical' to Madoff's 'scheme,' so Americans should stop being duped.
December 29th, 2008 2:54 PM
As U.S. Succeeds In Iraq, Network TV Pulls the Plug
Nearly two years after reporters such as NBC's Tom Brokaw derided President Bush's troop surge as "a folly" and suggested the war itself was a "lost cause," American troop deaths are at their lowest level since the Iraq war began in March 2003, and the death toll among Iraqi civilians is also down sharply in 2008.So right on cue, Monday's New York Times reports that ABC, CBS and NBC have all…
December 29th, 2008 2:49 PM
Liberal Bias in Yahoo Career Do's and Don'ts
What could have been a fairly apolitical "Career Do's and Don'ts from 2008" retrospective has become an exhibit of how liberal media bias is ubiquitous in digital media. E-mail tipster John Genin informed us of how Yahoo! HotJobs writer Tom Musbach cited liberal heros Barack Obama and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as worthy of emulation while citing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's wardrobe non-scandal as a…
December 29th, 2008 12:32 PM
Headline: 'The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism
Although most media members used the occasion of Mark Felt's death on December 18 to praise the former FBI official better known as "Deep Throat," George Friedman of the geopolitical intelligence organization Stratfor warned readers about journalists becoming "tools of various factions in political disputes" as well as "the relationship between security and intelligence organizations and…
December 29th, 2008 11:34 AM
Seattle P-I Offers Bland Story on Seattle Garbage Crisis, Ignores Salt
"Garbage piles up, even after snow has melted," reads a December 29 Seattle Post-Intelligencer story posted to the Web site Sunday evening. Yet nowhere in the story by staffers Brad Wong or Eric Nalder was any blame for the garbage glut laid at the doorstep of the city's Democratic chief executive. Mayor Greg Nickels may be partly to blame for the trash backlog because of his stubborn refusal to…
December 29th, 2008 11:28 AM
Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times from Campaign
History will tell that the New York Times actually endorsed John McCain as its preferred Republican nominee, albeit in a hold-your-nose fashion. History will also tell that the paper began souring on its former favorite "maverick" and moderate Republican almost immediately after he clinched the nomination and becoming the only thing standing between the White House and a historic Democratic…
December 29th, 2008 11:15 AM
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: you tell us.
December 29th, 2008 10:04 AM
A Tale of Two Tax Cuts: Obama's Will Save Economy, Bush's for the 'Wea
'Nightly News' considers tax cuts an integral part of the Obama 'massive economic recovery plan,' ignores how rollback of Bush tax cuts would affect economy.
December 29th, 2008 9:52 AM