Drill the Wasteland, Not the Consumers

Dan Gainor
 

Media Make Economic Storms Out of Silver Linings

BMI Staff
 

Financial Times: Too Few Girls As Tech Geeks? How About a Sex Change

The May 14 edition of the Financial Times carries a "Digital Business" special report. The section deals with challenges facing the future of computer dorkdom corporate IT departments. Chief among them, the FT asked in its front-page story, "What is it about girls and IT?""They are heavy users of technology yet avoid studying IT," the subhead explained, noting that "female skills" in IT are "in…
Ken Shepherd
 

CNN Contributor Calls Obama's $150 Billion Energy Proposal 'Valuable

AOL Money Coach's answer to high gas prices: Obama proposal matched with 'legislation to force the use of alternative energy.'
Jeff Poor
 

Networks Project Economic Gloom Before Release Of Positive GDP

Technical definition says it's still not a recession, despite downbeat coverage.
Genevieve Ebel
 

CNN’s Brown Rejects Suggestion That McCain Hasn’t Received a ‘Fr

CNN’s Campbell Brown, participating in a panel discussion on CNN’s special coverage of the West Virginia primary on Tuesday evening, agreed with the liberal members of the panel and rejected a Republican strategist’s opposition to the idea that John McCain has been receiving a "free ride" over the past weeks. "We can argue he’s [McCain] also not getting a lot of attention right now."Brown must…
Matthew Balan
 

PBS Star Bill Moyers Says Rev. Wright 'Assassinated by Soundbites

PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers appeared on Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, and delivered a long-winded defense of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who he said was "assassinated by soundbites." Moyers regurgitated the original, discredited Obama line, that out of 200,000 minutes from the pulpit, "His whole life, his whole ministry, his whole career was being summed up in sound bites…
Tim Graham
 

McCain's 'Better Way': 'Eco-Friendly' Campaign Merchandise; Spokesman

'Green' campaign items latest signal of global warming pandering as presumptive GOP nominee continues to disappoint conservative base.
Jeff Poor
 

The Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Take

Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo Fails to Note Kerry Connection for McCain/Hagee Critic

Ken Shepherd
 

ABC Wants You to Fight Global Warming One Cheeseburger at a Time

'World News' correspondent worries about everyone's contributions toward stopping climate change, even though governments worldwide must 'attack' it, he says.
Jeff Poor
 

CNN Cites 'Recession' in Exit Poll Questions

West Virginia primary voters were asked at least two factually faulty exit poll questions yesterday, both of which asserted that the U.S. economy is already in recession. This, of course, is absolutely false. A recession is marked by at least two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. The last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 were marked by slow, but positive, economic…
Ken Shepherd
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: how's that inflation thing working out for you?The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. The lower inflation reflected a flat reading for energy, which helped offset a 0.9 percent jump in food costs as prices climbed for many basic items, from…
NB Staff
 

NYT Columnist Sees 'Magic' in Military Invasion of Myanmar

Again today, the New York Times demonstrates that the MSM isn't opposed to America's invasion of foreign countries. There's really only one precondition: the national security interests of the United States must not be at stake.Thus it is that the NYT op-ed page today runs Aid at the Point of a Gun by Robert D. Kaplan, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the Center for a…
Mark Finkelstein