USA Today
USA Today Promotes Anti-free Market Study
August 30th, 2007 5:35 PM
USA Today is furthering an ideal that’s more socialist than American – penalize the executives because they make more than everyone else. “To say the pay gap between Wall Street’s top titans and average Americans is widening would be an understatement,” wrote Adam Shell in the August 30 USA Today. The USA Today article was about a study by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and United for…
Doesn’t USA Today Care About the Poor
August 28th, 2007 1:23 PM
Front and center of USA Today’s homepage right now are two stories that are quite frightening. The first titled, “Home Prices: Steepest Drop in 20 Years; No Recovery Soon.” Then just below that a story dubbed, “Business May Keep Their Wallets Closed.” While these two doomsday stories on the economy are front and center, full with color pictures, off to the side is a very different article…
USA Today Ignores Hamas Ties in Profile of Islamic Society President
August 22nd, 2007 1:55 PM
"How in the world could anyone write a lengthy article about the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), without mentioning once that the group has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation’s largest terrorism trial?"That's what Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs is wondering about USA Today's gauzy August 21 profile of Islamic convert and ISNA president Ingrid Mattson.In June…
'Please Don't Read This' Headline Leads Incomplete AP Beauchamp Story
August 9th, 2007 2:49 PM
One needs to look no further than the Associated Press's story on the Scott Beauchamp saga to understand why the general public not following the news closely doesn't "get" just how biased and antagonistic towards the war, the military, and American soldiers Old Media outlets are. In the case of Scott Beauchamp, now that their brethren at The New Republic (TNR) have been caught red-handed…
Just Like Paris Hilton, USA Today Loves Hybrids
August 8th, 2007 6:40 PM
Okay, we’ve all heard that hybrid vehicles are better for the environment. But how do they measure up when it comes to the green in your wallet?Even starlet Paris Hilton has boarded the hybrid bandwagon, as reported by BPM Magazine.“I came in a hybrid car because I think that’s the way to go – to save energy and to save our earth from all this – you know pollution so I think if everyone just…
Can't Make This Up: 'Left-Leaning' Bloggers Trying to Unionize
August 6th, 2007 12:41 PM
This is NOT from The Onion. It's from the Associated Press via USA Today ("Bloggers consider forming labor union"):CHICAGO — Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective…
USA Today NewsFlash: 'Rudeness, Threats Make the Web a Cruel World
July 31st, 2007 10:55 AM
In light of Matt Sheffield's latest post, I found it a bit funny that this article is featured on the front page of USAToday.com this morning (see screenshot to the right).SAN FRANCISCO — Brooke Brodack remembers her first online "hater." Nearly two years ago, the person posted rude comments about a video she had posted on YouTube, says Brodack, 21, of San Francisco, whose videos show her lip-…
Disgraceful ‘Killitary’ Daily Kos Blogger Speaks to USA Today
July 24th, 2007 11:03 AM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, a writer named Corey Mitchell posted an amazingly disgraceful blog at the liberal website Daily Kos Thursday stating that the United States armed forces were creating serial killers and mass murderers. USA Today's "On Deadline" blogger Mike Carney spoke with Mitchell on Monday about this matter (emphasis added throughout): "It's not my intention to denigrate…
Man Bites Dog Story: Columnist for Chain Newspaper Rips Chain Newspape
July 16th, 2007 12:31 PM
Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote a Sunday column (HT The Daily Bellwether) that was a withering attack on the blandness, lack of local coverage, and political correctness of chain news.
Bronson, at least for the moment, works at The Enquirer, which is owned by mega-chain operator Gannett Co., Inc. Gannett publishes 85 local newspapers and USA Today.
Here's Bronson on blandness:
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