Journos Blame Israel for Faulty Mideast Coverage
August 31st, 2006 9:11 PM
At a recent journalists convention in Israel, the assembled representatives of the world's elite media realized that press's coverage of the recent war in Lebanon has been flawed. And that it was Israel's fault. See NRO's Media blog for details, then read the rest of this article (h/t LGF):In short, much of the most incendiary
media coverage of this war seems to have been either staged or…
NY Times's Leonhardt Admits Wages On Uptick 3 Days After Ringing Death
August 31st, 2006 12:08 PM
New York Times reporter David Leonhardt had to make an about-face on the economy in today's New York Times:
What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.
In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.
"[T]he current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period…