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Forget Marriage: Adultery and Promiscuity Rule the Airwaves
New study shows broadcast television promotes sex in every relationship except marriage.
WSJ Shines Light on Richmond's Success at Battling Gun-Related Crime
The treatment is in stark contrast to typical media calls for more gun control.
Teen Choice Awards a Mixed Bag of Morality
Skanky Gossip Girl rakes in six awards, but squeaky clean Jonas Brothers get the nod too.
LAT's Ridiculous Links: '2 Obama Backers Hospitalized
The L.A.Times's Andrew Malcolm is so over come by Obamamania that he sees connections to his messiah everywhere, even in hospitals separated by hundreds of miles, from patients admitted days apart, with maladies and injuries that are completely dissimilar. And not just with ordinary everyday patients in those hospitals, but with two star studded actors who ended up in hospitals, one in Chicago…
LAT Staffer: Rush Limbaugh Show Is 'Mean-Spirited,' 'Invective
If a journalist ever wanted to exhibit her spectacular ignorance and bias, the Los Angeles Times' Johanna Neuman performed with flying colors. In a recent blog post about the surprise congratulatory phone call from the Bush family to Rush Limbaugh's radio show, Neuman offered,We imagine the reason the tape has not yet popped up on YouTube is that is was singularly lacking in the biting, mean-…
AP Mistake: Novak 'Announced Late Last Month He Has a Brain
In its haste to publish the news about columnist Robert Novak's retirement (reported earlier by my colleague Matt Sheffield), the Associated Press left out an important word that might have led readers to believe that up until recently, the longtime journalist was emulating Ray Bolger in "The Wizard of Oz."The following was published by AP Online at 2:09 ET (photo right courtesy Yahoo): Novak has…
Republicans Love Their Prostitutes
An Associated Press article printed in the Denver Post covers a recent concern of increased prostitution at political conventions from predominantly one angle - the Republican angle. The travesty of media justice starts with the screaming headline: Groups Predict Prostitution Spike at RNC Odd that the Denver Post would print such an article, without noting that the source…
Hollywood Conservatives Emerging from the Shadows
Hollywood conservative? As oxymoronic as that may sound, there are a few out there, the one endangered species that the left is not interested in protecting.In an excellent article for the Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes takes a look at a small band of conservatives and libertarians in Tinseltown. No longer content to stay quiet, they've created an underground group called "Friends of Abe," a…
CNBC Blog Credits Obama with Oil Drop
Author claims victory could knock $40 a barrel off cost, but he's a Democrat donor and other experts disagree.
NBC’s Matt Lauer: Opponents of China During Olympics are ‘Party Cr
NBC’s Matt Lauer, broadcasting live from the Great Wall of China on Monday’s "Today" show, referred to the "double-edged sword" of the world’s attention being on China for the Summer Olympic Games and asked a Chinese professor about how that "spotlight" might be "co-opted by party crashers who have a bone to pick with this country. He then asked the professor, "How worried are the people here…
CBS ‘Early Show’: Is Campaign ‘Aging’ Obama
On Monday’s "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith highlighted Barack Obama’s birthday, but wondered: "So is he feeling older faster as a result of the campaign trail?" Correspondent Bianca Solorzano later reported on Obama turing 47 and having endured a long campaign: "Barack Obama has been campaigning for president for 18 months...It was just four years ago that the relatively unknown Illinois…
Time to Kick GSE’s in the Fannie
Now that the government has signed off on a $25-billion bailout of home mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the obvious question is: What next?Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, thinks breaking up is hard to do, but necessary. "The Bush Administration should vigorously push to have Fannie and Freddie recapitalized and broken up into 10 to 12 companies, with their ties to…