Kudos to AP For Balanced Report on Abramoff and Congressional Corrupti
January 12th, 2006 10:25 PM
As has been widely reported by NewsBusters, the media have been actively misrepresenting the burgeoning Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal as being exclusively a Republican problem. Today, Jim Abrams of the Associated Press logged a report dealing with House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) assertions Thursday that Republicans have created "one of the most closed, corrupt congresses in…
Harry Belafonte Calls President Bush “The Greatest Terrorist in the
January 9th, 2006 10:09 PM
The Associated Press reported that American singer Harry Belafonte, as part of a delegation visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez that included actor Danny Glover and Princeton University scholar Cornel West, publicly stated that President Bush is “the greatest terrorist in the world.” “‘No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says…
AP's Jennifer Loven Spins Bush Speech as an "Attack" Only on Democrats
January 8th, 2006 9:42 PM
Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press is one of AP's regular reporters covering Mr. Bush and The White House. She also has an obvious conflict of interest, as her husband, Roger Ballentine, was a senior adviser to John Kerry on energy and environmental issues during the 2004 presidential campaign. Ballentine is currently president of Green Strategies, Inc., an environmental consulting and…
On Jobless Claims Report, AP's Crutsinger Discounts the Present, and G
January 5th, 2006 5:38 PM
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger has been on the opposite of a roll:Just before Christmas, he appeared to be lowballing the consensus estimate of 4th Quarter 2005 GDP growth by describing it as "around 3 percent," when a broad-based Bloomberg survey of economists indicated a consensus forecast of 3.3%. Second, he pooh-poohed November's Construction Spending report released two days ago…
