Media Mantra: Unhappy Holidays Pessimism about holiday sales went right through Christmas this year.
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January 4th, 2006 10:12 PM | Noel Sheppard
January 4th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Maybe Serwer Needs Another Cup of Joe CNN reporter flubs statistic on coal, despite correct graphic on-screen…
January 4th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
CBS anchor Bob Schieffer used vehement coal industry critic Jeff
Goodell as an unbiased expert on the coal industry in an in-studio
interview on the…
January 4th, 2006 2:00 PM | Noel Sheppard
This pessimism continued right through Christmas day,
even when the news began to come out that sales through December 24
were quite respectable. As…
January 3rd, 2006 3:13 PM | Greg Sheffield
New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye reports that the old saying, "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel," is no longer valid.
For decades, subjects of news stories who…
January 3rd, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Two million jobs were added in 2005; Novembers initial job growth
was revised upwards by more than 40 percent of the original
estimate; and unemployment…
January 3rd, 2006 12:40 PM | Tim Graham
Today's chat on WashingtonPost.com with Post media writer/CNN host Howard Kurtz began with a burst of hyperbole:
New York, N.Y.: Howard, In the early going, can you predict how big a story…
January 1st, 2006 11:08 PM | Vinny Fiore
Sometimes a story comes along that may look to be something particular, but then turns out not to be. The story written by Associated Press (AP) journalist Patrick Condon titled: "Sign Tallying…
December 31st, 2005 6:56 PM | Mark Finkelstein
I can now confirm what I've long suspected: Neal Gabler and I inhabit different planets.
I inhabit the one in which the MSM coverage of the Iraqi war is a virtually-uninterrupted drumbeat…
December 30th, 2005 3:06 PM | Tim Graham
A friend told me on Wednesday I had to check out Wolf Blitzer's taped CNN interview with ex-president Jimmy Carter. Filling in as host on "The Situation Room," Tom Foreman puffed up Carter's…
December 30th, 2005 12:31 PM | Megan McCormack
Closing out a slow news week on CNN’s American Morning today, anchor Miles O’Brien couldn’t resist taking a potshot at the Iraq war. O’Brien was discussing singer Willie Nelson’s brand of…
December 29th, 2005 9:27 AM | Rich Noyes
As 2005 winds down, it's a good time to recall some of the worst journalistic moments of the year. The Media Research Center polled 52 distinguished media experts -- talk show hosts, columnists,…
December 28th, 2005 10:09 PM | Stacy L. Harp
Did you know that a brave Navy Chaplain by the name of Gordon Klingenschmitt has been on a fast since December 20th? Probably not because the coverage in the mainstream media has been very…
December 28th, 2005 3:43 PM | Megan McCormack
CNN’s promotion of Cindy Sheehan's anti-war crusade continued on today’s American Morning. During the show’s Top Five in ‘05 segment, anchor Carol Costello profiled ‘The Peace Mom’ who "forced the…
December 28th, 2005 12:35 AM | Tom Blumer
As the economy has improved, President Bush's association with its results has decreased, and now has virtually disappeared.
Good economic news has poured out as if from a geyser during the…
December 23rd, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
Christmas is a time of giving and TV news reporters certainly took
that opportunity to give it to Wal-Mart. Following a jury ruling
that went against the…
December 21st, 2005 4:43 PM | Noel Sheppard
If Inflation Falls in the Forest... If we listened to the media, no…
December 21st, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
The Christmas shopping season culminated a strong year for the U.S.
economy. But instead of ringing out the old year and toasting the
economys success, 43…
December 21st, 2005 2:00 PM | Noel Sheppard
Ever
since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August sending oil
prices to $70 per barrel and gasoline above $3 a gallon, the media
have been in a…
December 20th, 2005 10:21 PM | Brent Baker
CNN on Tuesday afternoon gave credibility to the ruminations from a few hardcore leftists that President Bush should be impeached over authorizing, without prior court approval, eavesdropping on…
December 20th, 2005 5:03 PM | Scott Whitlock
There were only two subjects that concerned the media during President Bush’s December 19th news conference: Bad news on Iraq and domestic spying. Problems in Iraq accounted for six questions,…
December 20th, 2005 2:59 PM | Brent Bozell
The year 2005 is ending as it began, with another successful election in Iraq and a liberal media still flapping around trying to find other controversies to submerge it. It does not matter to them…
December 20th, 2005 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Opening their newscasts with the New York City transit strike, the
December 20 morning news programs focused on the inconvenience to
commuters and the…
December 19th, 2005 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Regardless of whether a strike is called or a settlement is
reached, warned Chan and Greenhouse, the labor struggle over the
transit contract has highlighted one fact:…
December 18th, 2005 8:52 PM | Mithridate Ombud
UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose releases results from a study that objectively quantifies media bias.
Take a wild guess how that came out.
Yes, Virginia, there is a leftist…