Newsweek’s Fineman Joins Media Herd Overstating Murtha’s Iraq War
November 20th, 2005 11:58 AM
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, in a new article entitled “Bush at the Tipping Point,” joined an expanding list of media representatives that have not only completely ignored statements made by Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania) concerning his disappointments with the Iraq war that came before his Thursday call for troop withdrawals, but also thoroughly misrepresented the level of support that Murtha…
WaPo’s TV Columnist Seems to Want MORE Sex on Television
November 10th, 2005 6:22 PM
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a new study yesterday indicating that the number of sexual scenes on television has nearly doubled since 1998. A Google search indicated that there have been upwards of 400 articles and Internet postings on this subject. For the most part, these articles have been at least moderately disturbed by these findings, while trying to offer some…
According to the Media, Most Economic News is Bad News
November 8th, 2005 1:16 AM
Regardless of economic data, press accounts are typically negative and pessimistic.The economy has been growing at a very strong clip since October 2001. Real estate prices are at their highest levels in history, as are homeownership and Americans’ average net worth. Unemployment also is lower than the average during any of the past three decades. Yet Americans are very down, and one third even…
Totenberg Calls Ginsburg a “Pretty Conservative Liberal” and Alito
November 6th, 2005 2:13 PM
On NBC’s “Meet The Press” this morning, host Tim Russert stocked his panel with three left-of-center journalists – Nina Totenberg of NPR, Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, and David Gregory of NBC News – to discuss the events of the week. When they got to the nomination of Samuel Alito to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Russert mentioned that when Bill Clinton was president…
LA Times Offers Different, More Moderate View of Judge Alito
November 2nd, 2005 10:13 AM
While the mainstream media have focused attention on President Bush’s new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito being an extreme Conservative (as reported by NewsBusters here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), David G. Savage and Henry Weinstein of the Los Angeles Times actually did some real investigative journalism, and identified that people who have worked with Alito don’t agree…
Joe Wilson: A Man On A Mission In A Media Vehicle
November 1st, 2005 12:08 PM
Robert Scheer writes for the LA Times: [Judith Miller] knew early on that Libby was using the media to punish former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV for exposing President Bush's false claim that Iraq sought nuclear material from the African nation of Niger.The words I want to examine here are "punish" and "false claim". If there was information given to a reporter, it wasn't to punish Joe…
