Reuters Exposes Gore's Global Warming Profit Motive

June 3rd, 2009 3:13 PM
For years, NewsBusters has asked the question: when will media report Nobel Laureate Al Gore's global warming profit motive?On Monday, Reuters did.In an article titled "Gore-backed Hara Sees Profit from Low-carbon Economy," author David Lawsky went where most climate change obsessed media members dare not (h/t Steven Milloy):

Here We Go Again: This Time Gov't. Is Trying to Shaft Unsecured GM Bon

May 22nd, 2009 2:17 PM
Earlier today at my blog, I noted in a post updating the sad situations at bankrupt Chrysler and headling-for-bankruptcy General Motors, that GM is, according to a Wednesday Reuters report, offering secured bondholders a much better deal than the 29 cents on the dollar Chrysler's secured creditors have been offered. Chrysler's "non-TARP secured lenders," after what they allege with much…

Media Singles Out Catholic Church, Goes Wild Over Report of Decades-Ol

May 21st, 2009 10:20 PM
Since when is the media so interested in keeping America abreast of the latest news coming out of Ireland? A commission in Ireland just released a report detailing awful abuse of children who attended Catholic schools "from the 1930's to the 1990's, when the last of the institutions closed." And what's ensued is practically an all-out media frenzy. The AP, Reuters, the New York Times, the LA…

Reuters Ignores Obama Link to Convicted Democrat Fundraiser

May 19th, 2009 7:48 PM
Today Reuters reported the story "Democrat fundraiser guilty of illegal donations."  Author Christine Kearney begins:A former U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser whose 2007 arrest prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign contributions was found guilty on Tuesday of breaking federal campaign laws.Businessman Norman Hsu, 58, was convicted by a jury in federal court in New York of…

AP Writers Seem Sympathetic to 'Pirates' in Latest Dispatch

April 14th, 2009 10:33 AM
In a report this morning  on the situation off the coast on Somalia, Associated Press reporters Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Paul Jelinek seemed oddly sympathetic to the cause of the terrorists in training the world insists on calling "pirates," almost to the point of grudging admiration. Check out some of the words the AP pair used in their 9:15 a.m. dispatch (saved at host for fair use and…

The Press Continues to Obsess Over Obama's 'Distractions

April 9th, 2009 11:50 PM
Reuters is only the latest wire service to go way over the top in taking pity on President Obama for having to deal with nasty things that intervene to disturb Dear Leader's apparent solitude.At the same time, Reuters seems to be characterizing the situations in Iran and North Korea as "distractions" that are equivalent to that being posed by the Somali pirates.I don't know how else you can…

Reuters Knowingly Reports Lie About Binghamton Shooting -- The Taliban

April 4th, 2009 8:48 AM
Reuters published a story today, April 4, detailing some nonsense from a Taliban terrorist who has claimed "responsibility" for Friday's shooting rampage in Binghamtom, New York. The question that comes to mind is why? Why did Reuters imagine this idiotic claim, this obvious lie, was worth reporting to the world? Does Reuters not have the good sense God gave a door knob? Why would Reuters pass…

NYT Ignores Free Speech Activist Yoani Sanchez; Focuses on Lefties

April 3rd, 2009 3:05 PM
Ever notice the media love to report stories about people fighting the power, unless, of course, the power happens to be something the media favor? A March 31 New York Times article about Cuba's Havana Biennial art festival highlighted several artists whose political statements were in line with the anti-American, communist outlook of the island's regime, while ignoring prominent Cuban blogger…

Reuters Claims One Billion People Took Part in 'Earth Hour

March 28th, 2009 9:18 PM
Reuters issued a dispatch this afternoon centering on a global effort to underscore the threat of global warming.  "World switches off to save planet in 'Earth Hour'" reports the news service.  The piece notes:Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change.From the Sydney Opera…

Hundreds of NPRs: Dem Senator Introduces 'Newspaper Revitalization Act

March 25th, 2009 12:02 AM
I said earlier this year (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) that there was reason to believe that 2009 might be the year of the newspaper bailout. Now one of Maryland's two Democratic US senators thinks he has come up with a way to subsidize and save them -- while simultaneously turning them into house organs for his party. Ben Cardin (picture at right is from his Senate web site) has introduced "The…

AP, AFP, Reuters: French Supporters of Pope 'Far-Right' or 'Right-Wing

March 23rd, 2009 12:21 PM
The three largest mainstream media wire services all agreed that supporters of Pope Benedict XVI who dared to stand up to anti-Catholic leftists in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday were extremists of the right of some sort. The Associated Press used the “right-wing” label to describe the faithful Catholics. Both Reuters and the French Agence France-Presse both used the term “far-…

How Will Media Report Chavez Calling Obama 'A Poor Ignoramus

March 22nd, 2009 10:34 PM
Barack Obama is hailed by sycophantic media members as one of the brightest men to ever be President, and was supposed to improve America's standing around the world.Yet, on Sunday, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez called Obama "a poor ignoramus" who "should read and study a little to understand reality." Given how impressed news members are with our new President, and how they regularly disparaged the…

Gaffe Watch: Hillary Tells Europeans U.S. Democracy Much Older Than Eu

March 6th, 2009 12:06 PM

Reuters: Despite Bailout, GM Bankruptcy Possible; Uncle Sam Isn't Firs

February 10th, 2009 11:01 AM
A week ago (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that government bailout recipients General Motors and Chrysler had horrible sales in January, and that their declines are accelerating. GM was down 49% year over year in January, compared to -32% in December; Chrysler was down 55% in January, compared to -53% in December. Meanwhile, the companies' main foreign competitors turned in January sales…