More Games with Party Labeling in Yet Another Democratic Corruption Sc
See below for an update in coverage:The indicted former Newark Mayor and current NJ state Senator Sharpe James sure is mysterious. According to the New York Times, WNBC and via the AP, the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, Philadelphia Inquirer and the UK's Guardian, among others, James seemingly does not belong to a political party. Maybe he belongs to the same non-party as Rep. William Jefferson who…
Hypocritical Media Bashing of Mrs. Fred Thompson
A very peculiar thing is happening with a normally feminist media that has the potential to have a huge impact on the 2008 presidential campaign.As press outlets go out of their way to advance the presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton, and laud the first female Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, attacks on Jeri Thompson, the wife of soon-to-be candidate Fred Thompson, are quite in vogue.It…
MSM Highlight GOP 'Defections', Ignore Dems Voting Against Their Own
We are seeing all over the MSM the reports highlighting the Republicans in the House and Senate who are turning away from the Party line and voting against -- or at least seeming to vote against -- the President's Iraq war policies. The MSM is presenting this revolt as a momentous thing, unprecedented and presenting it as a loss for the President's ideas. Yet, even as a small number of…
Iraq Comparisons to Vietnam Are Shameful Media Mischaracterizations
As American media turned anti-war in late 2003 in order to assist Democrats in the upcoming 2004 elections, a common strategy of comparing the war in Iraq to Vietnam was implemented.In fact, since the March 19, 2003, invasion, there have been thousands of press reports which included the words Iraq and Vietnam.With this is mind, our friend Jim at Gateway Pundit posted an absolutely fabulous …
Jules Crittenden on Media in Iraq: ‘Lazy, Stupid or Willfully Ignora
For those unfamiliar, Jules Crittenden is a city editor for the Boston Herald with a blog that is truly a daily must-read for those interested in top-notch media analysis.On Thursday, Crittenden lambasted various mainstream press outlets for their lazy, stupid, or willfully ignorant coverage of the war in Iraq.I highly recommend it be read in its entirety.Early in his piece, Crittenden asked a…
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…
ABC Bashes Bottled Water Companies, Ignores the One RFK Jr. Owns
As the Business and Media Institute reported, ABC’s “World News” on Sunday castigated people for drinking bottled water.Yet, it seems the folks at ABC weren’t aware that environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., actually owns a – wait for it! – bottled water company (h/t to NBers lumberjack and dscott).As BMI’s Jeff Poor reported Monday:“With every sip are you actually hurting the…
Chastity Pollutes? NY Times Website Hosts Idea That Social Conservatis
On Sunday, New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt reviewed the new book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" by Steven Landsburg, a regular contributor to the liberal site Slate.com. Leonhardt panned the book as too cute and too far afield from the "dismal science" of economics, but the Times book editors gave the Landsburg thesis an excerpt on the Times…
Comparing Economies: Two Respected Measures Put Bush 43's at or Near t
Today's release of the Institute for Supply Management's Non-Manufacturing Activity Report, which measures business conditions in the 86% of the economy other than manufacturing, came in with a reading of 60.7, after recording a 59.7 last month.
As has been customary, the report whipped the pants off of "expectations." This Thomson Financial article at Forbes predicted a decline to 58.1 instead…
