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…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 19th to 25th
August 25th, 2006 4:16 PM
NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell continued the skewed media reporting of the Middle East by noting the important social work that Hezbollah does and how the rest of the world has a very supportive take on the terrorist organization. Liberal TV critic Bob Laurence hypothesized that the scant coverage of the kidnaping of two Fox News journalists was due to the frequency of abductions and the network’s…