Associated Press
AFP Criticizes Fox News for Obama-Critical Article -- Written by AP
February 26th, 2009 1:34 PM
Maybe it was just too easy to assume the worst of the news network most others in the press love to hate. Or perhaps it was deliberate.Whatever the reason, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire service's Wednesday story about reaction to Barack Obama's sort-of State of the Union Speech the previous evening spent four of its last five paragraphs pinning a report harshly critical of various claims in…
AP's Loven Describes Obama Speech -- 5-1/2 Hours Before It Began (See
February 25th, 2009 9:19 AM
Who knew that the Associated Press's Jennifer Loven has the ability to see into the future? That must be the case, because yesterday she told us what had happened at Barack Obama's sort-of State of the Union speech -- 5-1/2 hours before Obama uttered a word. As fellow NewsBuster Noel Sheppard is given to say, "I kid you not." Loven's AP story carried at Breitbart (HT to Abe Greenwald a Commentary…
AP's Loven Criticized Bush's Valid Arguments as 'Straw Men,' Silent on
February 21st, 2009 8:27 AM
The Associated Press's Jennifer Loven is now the President of the White House Correspondents Association (picture at right is from the WHCA web site). Loven was the first person on President Obama's preselected list of those permitted to ask a question at his February prime-time press briefing. Whether she received this top placement because of her office, or because of her years of George Bush-…
NY Times Feeds Into Notion that Republican Opposition to Stimulus Bill
February 20th, 2009 2:55 PM
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn appeared on WIS-TV yesterday in a round table setting to discuss how the stimulus bill will affect South Carolina. During the debate he stated that he was insulted by opposition to the plan; specifically targeting GOP Governors of Southern States by implying that their opposition was a "slap in the face of African-Americans" as if race was a determining…
New York Times Co. Suspends Dividend; Share Price Less Than Cost of Su
February 20th, 2009 9:03 AM
Yesterday, The New York Times Company suspended its quarterly dividend. The company's stock slid 5% to close at $3.51, yet another all-time low in the company's nearly 23 years as a public company in its current form (the Times has been a public company since the 1960s).Henry Blodget at Silicon Valley Insider noted, even before yesterday's announcement and share-price dip, that the company's…
Name That Party: Chicago Alderman Sentenced to 4 Years; Sun-Times, AP
February 18th, 2009 12:23 AM
Former Chicago Democratic Alderman Arenda Troutman was sentenced today to four years in prison for mail and tax fraud. In covering her sentencing, both the Chicago Sun-Times article (picture at right is cropped from that article) and Jeff Coen's Breaking News piece at the Chicago Tribune failed to mention that Troutman is a Democrat. Now it would be easy to say, "But of course she's a Democrat;…
AP: Obama 'Has Done Wonders' Bringing Presidency to Children
February 17th, 2009 1:17 PM
So you think Barack Obama has done nothing yet but coddle terrorists, kill unborn babies, and shove through Congress a spending bill of gargantuan proportions? Well, think again, Buster. The Associated Press reported in passing yesterday that The One also "has done wonders to bring the office of the presidency to life for young people."Now precisely what those wonders are isn't detailed. We…
AP: Advertising Kids 'E-Book' Obama Indoctrination Effort
February 16th, 2009 12:28 AM
The Associated Press is taken with the new e-book full of letters to President Obama published by the National Education Association (NEA) a liberal teachers union. Naturally, all the kids in this book are filled to overflowing with leftist talking points like pushing the anti-military angle -- one kid even said he was "very luckey because I am not part of a military family."
The kids were all…
AP's 'Name That Party' Twist: Disgraced PA Judges' Dem Party ID Disapp
February 14th, 2009 6:55 AM
This "Name That Party" situation has many of the usual elements. There are several stories about two Democratic judges involved in criminal behavior in Pennsylvania, and, with one exception, they "somehow" don't get around to identifying their party. But this saga is different for two reasons: The crimes to which the judges have pleaded guilty involve "thousands" of juveniles. In one lonely…
Socialism Update: Goldman Wants Out of TARP, Wells Nixes Junket
February 8th, 2009 12:31 PM
While the Obama administration and its media minions castigate financial industry executives for their so-called greedy ways, a couple of inconvenient truths are going largely un- or under-reported: one bank being criticized for a lavish convention in Las Vegas was forced to take TARP money in October, while another is trying to pay back the funds to regain its autonomy.As the press had a field…
Pro-Global Warming Study Receives Worldwide Headlines; Discovery of Er
February 6th, 2009 12:47 PM
When University of Washington Professor Eric Steig announced in a news conference and paper published in the January 22 edition of the journal Nature that he and several colleagues removed one of many thorns in the sides of climate alarmists -- in this case, evidence that Antarctica is cooling -- he received extensive worldwide attention in the mainstream press.But when a noteworthy error was…
