Limbaugh to Read NB Item on Tribune's New Spin on Minnesota Bridge
Radio host Rush Limbaugh will be addressing this blog post in his 2 p.m. monologue.
Chicago Tribune Blogger to Hillary, Dems: Don't Cut and Run... From th
The Chicago Tribune's Frank James thinks the Democrats really need to stop this insistence on retreat... from the word liberal. In short, James wrote at the paper's "The Swamp" blog today, if Democrats don't hunker down and fight Republicans on the dreaded L-word, the GOP will keep moving on and make "progressive" an epithet as well. Here's James' argument, portions in bold are my emphasis:
Army Recruiting Goals: Another Example of the Media's Management of th
Of late, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been arguing that the mainstream media persistently exercise the "management" of the news. That is to say, aside from slanted and biased reporting on the news of the day, they frame news developments in a way that manage events to fit a preconceived meme or storyline.The media's coverage of Army recruiting numbers is no exception.Bear in mind these…
Chicago’s ‘Green’ Mayor Daley All Talk No Action on Reducing CO
Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley is finding out the hard way that it’s not so easy being green. As reported by the Chicago Tribune last week (h/t MRC summer intern Joe Steigerwald, emphasis added throughout):Mayor Richard Daley vowed six years ago to make Chicago a leader in emerging efforts to fight global warming, but city government is churning out more heat-trapping pollution every year.I’m…
Chicago Tribune: Campaign Finance Win a Boon to GOP; Ignores Labor Uni
In its rush to paint yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that struck down an issue ad ban contained in the so-called McCain-Feingold Law, the Chicago Tribune described the case as a win for President Bush and the GOP, even though the Bush administration's lawyers lost the case in question and even though the case benefits liberal activist groups as much as it does conservatives. What's more, Bush's…
