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Stunning Ignorance About 'Pink Slips' (Yet Again) from AP
The Associated Press's Jeannine Aversa started off her Friday evening report on the day's economic news showing, as she and her AP colleagues have for several months, that they either don't understand very basic concepts relating to the information they're attempting to digest and convey or are deliberately reporting it inaccurately: Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin air in May…
Inaccurate Olbermann Ridicules O'Reilly for Relaying Accurate Item fro
Erroneously recounting a Tuesday NewsBusters post I wrote about how, unlike ABC and CBS, the NBC Nightly News did not report the lowest U.S. death level in May for any month since the war in Iraq began, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Friday night made FNC's Bill O'Reilly his “Worst Person in the World” runner-up for “picking up some of his features from the hilariously inept right-wing Web site…
MSNBC Hillary Post-Mortem Ignores Personality Factor
Not to be unkind, but how can one purport to conduct a serious post mortem of Hillary Clinton's failed candidacy without mentioning what would seem an obvious—and very important—factor: her personality that to many American was less-than-appealing, in a contest pitting her against the unusually charming Barack Obama?Yet David Gregory ignored the personality factor entirely in his "post mortem,…
CBS Frets Energy Cost, Skips Impact of Bill to 'Fight Global Warming
After leading Friday's CBS Evening News with Morgan Stanley's prediction of $150 barrel of oil by the 4th of July and reporter Anthony Mason citing the “runaway price of energy,” anchor Katie Couric delivered a short item on how “today the Senate gave up on legislation to fight global warming.” Couric explained that “faced with a Republican-led filibuster, Democrats withdrew their proposal to cap…
SFChron: Obama is a 'Rare Kind of Attuned Being,' a 'Lightworker
Well, I have come to the conclusion that Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle just threw away the last tiny shred of credibility he might have had left by dreamily imagining that Barack Obama is so omniscient, so "ethereal" and so messiah-like that he isn't a "normal" human being. Maybe Mark thinks he might be an alien from another planet, some trans-dimensional traveler, or maybe an angel…
Author Blames Lack of Draft for Blackwater's Rise
Iraq war opponent Jeremy Scahill rails against paid security contractors that lessen the burden on the U.S. military.
CNN Uses 'Manipulated' Number to Attack Debt Arbitration Group
'American Morning' calls dispute resolution system 'seemingly unfair' but leaves out context of personal responsibility.
CBS Downplays Cost of New 'Green' Inhalers
Environmental treaty will cause costly phase-out of CFC inhalers and replacement inhalers could cost three times as much.
FT Editor: 'World Would Dearly Love a Vote' in November
"The world would dearly love a vote in this, yes, epic contest, but will content itself with a ringside seat," Philip Stephens closed his June 6 column about the U.S. presidential election. The Financial Times associate editor certainly played the spectator part, cheering for Obama while booing McCain.Stephens seemed to argue that McCain may well have stooped to outright racist talking points to…