Michigan
CBS & ABC Ignore Democratic Primary in Michigan
January 16th, 2008 5:44 PM
While Wednesday morning shows on Fox, CNN, and even NBC covered the outcome of the Democratic primary in Michigan, in which Hillary Clinton got 55% of the vote with 40% going to ‘uncommitted’ and lost the black vote 32% to 68%, ABC’s "Good Morning America" and CBS’s "Early Show" made no mention of the Democratic primary.On the "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith and "Face the Nation" host Bob…
Food Stamp Follies Mostly Continue, As Does Old Media's Gullible Cover
June 8th, 2007 8:02 AM
Give Food Stamp Challenge organizers in Michigan and New Haven, Connecticut some credit.
We'll probably never know whether they figured it out on their own, or perhaps read of other organizers' errors when they were pointed out by syndicated columnist Mona Charen and by yours truly (at NewsBusters here and here; at BizzyBlog here and here). But unlike their comrades in most other cities and…
AP: Wal-Mart Firing Cashier for Insulting Shoppers Is Newsworthy
May 31st, 2007 3:27 PM
It's generally bad for business to have a flippant employee who insults your loyal customers. Now if someone could just give that newsflash to the Associated Press. The AP today picked
up on the plight of one David Noordeweir, who was fired in late
February from a Michigan Wal-Mart for an entry on his MySpace page that
insulted the intelligence of Wal-Mart shoppers. Here's the lede.:A former Wal…