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AP Sets Dismal Spin to Expectations-beating Employment Report
In reading the Associated Press's 9:09 a.m. report covering the Bureau of Labor Statistics November Employment Situation Report, one can't help but think that it was hoping for worse news than arrived. Unemployment remained at 4.7%, and 94,000 jobs were added during the month, beating expectations of 4.8% and 70,000, respectively. After spending five paragraphs relaying the news, it began hitting…
NewsBusted Comedy, Episode
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AP: ‘Gore Takes Public Transportation During Nobel Trip in Norway
To give you an idea of what lengths Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his media minions will go to present him as a champion for the environment, the Associated Press Friday published a story about the Global Warmingist-in-Chief taking public transportation in Norway (emphasis added, h/t NBer Sick-n-Tired): Former Vice President Al Gore arrived in Oslo today to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he shared…
FNC's O'Reilly Highlights MRC Study: As Iraq Improves, Coverage Falls
FNC's Bill O'Reilly on Thursday night centered his "Talking Points Memo" around the findings in the MRC's Media Reality Check study released earlier this week, "Good News = Less News on Iraq War: As Surge Succeeds and Casualty Rates Fall, ABC, CBS and NBC Lose Interest In Iraq War." O'Reilly pointed out how U.S. casualties and violence are way down from six months ago. Then, citing the MRC's…
Shuster Imagines Evangelicals Going to Gitmo To 'Torture People Just f
"We'll go to a revival and then go to Guantanamo Bay and torture some people just for fun." -- David Shuster on evangelicals, 12-7-07So astonishingly malicious were the words of David Shuster today that they leave me at a loss for words of my own. So let's just say it simply: David Shuster is an anti-evangelical bigot. Video (0:35): Real (991 kB) and Windows (1.11 MB), plus MP3 audio (274 kB).
GQ Genuflects Before Bill Clinton In 'Man of the Year' Issue
Try to remember a time in September when it was reported that the Hillary Clinton campaign showed its "hard-nosed media strategy" by getting GQ magazine to spike a piece on Clinton team in-fighting by threatening to pull access to Bill Clinton for GQ’s planned December "Man of the Year" cover package. Well, that "Man of the Year" issue is out, and there was no bucking, only fawning. The article…
Helen Thomas Says You Bloggers are 'Dangerous
I don't know... I don't feel that dangerous. But, gee, I guess I am? Well I might be, at least according to Helen Thomas, one of the most uncivil "reporters" in all of journalism. Apparently she has proclaimed that citizen journalists and bloggers are "dangerous" on a HuffPo blog of December 4. HuffPoster Seema Kalia reported an exchange with the equine visaged Thomas where she raised alarm over…
As Teen Pregnancy Rates Rise, Times and Post Blame Abstinence Educatio
Both papers took the standard, biased media approach by challenging federal funding of abstinence education while ignoring the far greater funding of condom-based sex education.
The Medias Top 10 Economic Myths of 2007: Executive Summary
Compiled by the Business & Media Institute
Stunning! NYT Exposed Cuba's Socialist Poverty Without Blaming US
Is the New York Times changing? In an article about Old Havana's rebuilding, NYT reporter John C. McKinley, Jr. bucked the media habit of inserting leftist messages into articles about Cuba. Instead, he exposed the average Cuban's poverty, giving the state-run socialist economy as the cause--all without mentioning “free” health care or the US embargo.The NYT's December 6 article even described…