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Obama Wants More Regulation, But Experts Beg To Differ
Candidate wants 'fly-by-night' lenders regulated and fined, but free market economists propose a different solution: let the market work.
Metaphor-mad NYT Defends Craig: Stupidity No Cause to Cast Him Out of
When the Larry Craig case broke, I noted the New York Times's unusual diffidence in reporting it. Senator, Arrested at Airport, Pleads Guilty was all the Times's cryptic headline told us, failing to indicate Craig's name, party affiliation, or the crime for which he had been not merely "arrested" but to which he had pleaded guilty.At the time I surmised that the Times's bashfulness could have…
The Story Stalls Here
Ft. Lauderdale is among the nation's leaders in new AIDS cases, but the media are willfully blind to the consequences of men irresponsibly having sex with strangers in public bathrooms. Mayor Jim Naugle is trying to stop the practice and cut the HIV infection rate -- and the Miami Herald actually called him a hate-monger for trying to save the lives of the people he's supposed to hate. Is it…
'Dr. 90210' – or Dr. Crotch
What compels anyone at this network, from the CEO to the lowliest of interns, to associate himself with this product?
MRC/NB's Bozell on 'Hannity & Colmes' to Discuss Bias in Favor of Dem
Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which runs NewsBusters, appeared Thursday night (August 30) on FNC's Hannity & Colmes to discuss the MRC's study, “Rise and Shine on Democrats: How the ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows Are Promoting Democrats on the Road to the White House” (Executive Summary). It found that, from January through July, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows…
NBC First Broadcast Network to Highlight Hillary Clinton's Hsu Fundrai
NBC on Thursday night became the first broadcast network to air a story on the Clinton presidential campaign scandal over donations from Norman Hsu, a fugitive from a grand theft charge who is also suspected of illegally funneling excess donations through another family. While ABC's World News and the CBS Evening News, as well as the NBC Nightly News, found time for a third straight night of…
Matthews: Sometimes Case Can Be Made Media Incredibly Biased Against R
This could be something of a first: a major MSM player admits there's a case to be made that the media is incredibly biased against Republicans.As I noted here, when Tom DeLay accused the media of bias on this morning's "Today," Matt Lauer stonewalled: "I'm not going to let it, you know, end with that assumption, congressman, because I clearly don't agree with it."But appearing on this afternoon'…
USA Today Promotes Anti-free Market Study
USA Today is furthering an ideal that’s more socialist than American – penalize the executives because they make more than everyone else. “To say the pay gap between Wall Street’s top titans and average Americans is widening would be an understatement,” wrote Adam Shell in the August 30 USA Today. The USA Today article was about a study by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and United for…