Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list:
10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian…
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December 9th, 2009 10:08 AM | Dan Gainor
The last time unemployment hit double digits, the Billy Joel song “Allentown” was a surprise early ’80s hit. As Joel later told the Allentown Morning Call, it was a “song about being out of work…
December 9th, 2009 12:23 AM | Rusty Weiss
White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, recently ridiculed a Gallup poll which showed the President's approval ratings at a record low for this stage of his presidency, for seemingly no other…
December 8th, 2009 8:51 PM | Jack Coleman
How does earnest MSNBC polemicist Rachel Maddow expect anyone to take her seriously when she doubts al Qaeda still threatens American lives? It took Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations…
December 8th, 2009 5:50 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Inspired by Chris Matthews complaining about all the money spent on defense, instead of upgrading America's rail system, Michigan Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm endorsed the MSNBC host, on…
December 8th, 2009 12:57 PM | Kyle Drennen
While interviewing Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith referred to recent comments by Senator Harry Reid: “[He] said Republicans are on the wrong…
December 8th, 2009 11:13 AM | Lachlan Markay
The Obama presidency is, for better or worse, the most media saturated administration in the nation's history. Due at least in part to revolutionary changes in the sharing of information, but equally…
December 8th, 2009 12:00 AM | Colleen Raezler
Media outlets love stories like the current Tiger Woods debacle. It has sex, deceit, money and a fallen hero. It has many angles: the adultery angle that allows psychologists to surmise what drove…
December 7th, 2009 4:47 PM | Kyle Drennen
Near the end of the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer discussed the ClimateGate scandal only to claim there was no scandal in the emails that seemed to show climate scientists manipulating…
December 7th, 2009 11:29 AM | Mike Sargent
For the dog-bites-man news category: Joe Scarborough had a moment of intellectual schizophrenia today.On MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Willie Geist and Politico.com executive editor Jim VandeHei were…
December 5th, 2009 6:43 PM | Brent Baker
Before the Democratic primary vote on Tuesday in Massachusetts to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy, a chance to catch up with how just before Thanksgiving, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin -- a Bay…
December 5th, 2009 2:24 PM | Mike Bates
And they say a woman scorned can be merciless. Eric Burns once served as the host of Fox News Watch. It's reasonable to assume he won't be working there again any time soon. In a December 2…
December 5th, 2009 11:19 AM | Noel Sheppard
Rachel Maddow on Friday played a video of a man in underwear banging his genitals against another man's forehead in a gay bar.
This was done to explain to her MSNBC audience the derivation…
December 4th, 2009 9:05 PM | Brent Baker
Two weeks after the scandal broke, NBC Nightly News on Friday night became the first broadcast network morning or evening news program to inform viewers about “ClimateGate,” but only in the most…
December 4th, 2009 6:47 PM | Kyle Drennen
Responding to President Obama criticizing media coverage of the White House jobs summit, on Friday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews wondered why the President wasn’t more appreciative of all…
December 4th, 2009 3:24 PM | Ken Shepherd
Dylan Ratigan (file photo at right), whose bias and occasional forays into balanced journalism have both been documented at NewsBusters, is set to gain an afternoon slot in 2010, according to…
December 4th, 2009 12:41 PM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan on Friday aggressively took on the subject of ClimateGate, informing a global warming scientist that the "perceived integrity of what you are saying is diminished by…
December 4th, 2009 11:07 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Norah O'Donnell just can't stop condescending to supporters of Sarah Palin. Appearing on Morning Joe today, the MSNBC correspondent rehashed a line she has used before: that fans of Sarah Palin…
December 3rd, 2009 6:08 PM | NB Staff
Check out the latest episode of NewsBusters’ Notable Quotables comedy show.This week we have CBS’s Harry Smith on death watch for the Republican Party, Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift worshiping a new deity…
December 3rd, 2009 3:16 PM | Carolyn Plocher
Every once in a while, a liberal cuts right through the hemming and hawing and verbalizes his true world view. Like Hollywood producer Gavin Polone commenting on the Tiger Woods episode: If you can't…
December 3rd, 2009 11:27 AM | Noel Sheppard
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart on Wednesday absolutely tore apart President Obama's speech on Afghanistan for being a virtual rehashing of former President George W. Bush's 2007 address concerning a…
December 3rd, 2009 9:55 AM | Jack Coleman
Whenever I hear lib radio talker Ed Schultz introduce a guest, I wonder if the person is paying to be there -- seeing how many of Schultz's most frequent guests are advertisers on his radio Web…
December 3rd, 2009 9:19 AM | Jeff Poor
The seemingly creepy fixation some MSNBC on-air personalities have with Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann just continues to persist on the cable network.
The latest installment…
December 3rd, 2009 5:34 AM | Jeff Poor
The seemingly creepy fixation some MSNBC on-air personalities have with Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann just continues to persist on the cable network.
The latest…
December 3rd, 2009 12:00 AM | Carolyn Plocher
Every once in a while, a liberal cuts right through the hemming and hawing and verbalizes his true world view. Like Hollywood producer Gavin Polone commenting on the Tiger Woods episode: If you…