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AP's Aversa Continues Job Reporting Malpractice
The Associated Press's disgraceful coverage of last week's Employment Situation Report from Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) got left behind in the holiday weekend hubbub, but calls out for comment nonetheless. The AP's Jeannine Aversa reached into her Thesaurus as she began her report with what has become the wire service's standard monthly error of treating reported seasonally…
ABC Reporters Team Up with Environmental Activists on Planet Green
Mainstream journalists join Discovery network's show about global warming threats.
Seven Protestors for MoveOn Get Coverage by Albany Paper
The call to arms is emotional: ‘We need a President who will stand up to Big Oil!’ The impact is nationwide: ‘National Day of Action for an Oil Free President… At gas stations across the country…’ The movement is massive: ‘American people need an Oil-Free President!’ And the Albany Times Union took a photo-op to demonstrate the fury of the numerous protestors – all 7 of them. Making the photo…
Home Sweet 'Mortgage Hell
Glamour warns women about their 'scariest money mistake' and a 'tsunami of foreclosures'
Good News on NBC: Texas Economy Booming Under Oil Rush
'Nightly News' segment details how economy is flourishing and says boom 'could pay off nationwide.'
CBS’s Smith ‘Sad’ Over Jackson's Comments
On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith reacted to Jesse Jackson’s controversial comments about Barack Obama by sympathizing with the left-wing activist: "Honestly to me, as somebody who sat in an Operation Push [Founded by Jesse Jackson] meeting some 30-plus years ago in an old theater in Chicago, hearing this and seeing this, there's something a little sad about it."While Smith was…
ABC Tries to Understand Jackson's 'Colorful,' 'Cut His Nuts Off' Obama
Over the course of three segments, various "Good Morning America" reporters and hosts attempted to understand and explain away Reverend Jesse Jackson's vulgar assertion that he would like "to cut [Senator Barack Obama's] nuts off." During the show open, co-host Diane Sawyer referred to the comments, made while Jackson was prepping to do an interview on Sunday and not aware his mic was on, as "…
Mixed Nuts: Tracking Media Coverage of Jackson's Slur
Oh nuts!Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher beat me to it, so here's an excerpt on the media's varying levels of squeamishness in reporting Rev. Jesse Jackson's desire to castrate the presumptive Democratic nominee. Why am I not surprised that AP was particularly delicate?: So how did the media on Wednesday handle the now-infamous Rev. Jesse Jackson off-mike reference to Barack Obama while…
Higher Gas Prices Means Fewer Traffic Deaths
The public is forever complaining about how the media are obsessed with bad news and rarely look for the good in what's going on, but sometimes doing so becomes just a little ridiculous. Such is the case with an Omaha, Nebraska TV station which managed to find some good news about higher gas prices: fewer people dying from auto accidents.I suppose that we should be cheering gas to go to $15.00 a…
Time Magazine: At Least Conservative Anglicans Aren't Bible Thumpers
Exploring the notion that some Anglican parishes could soon return to full communion with Rome in protest of the Church of England allowing ordination of female bishops, Time magazine writers David Van Biema and Jeff Israely felt it necessary to throw in some loaded language about how English conservative Anglicans are different than their American Episcopal cousins:Both the special nature of the…