In many respects, 2005 was the strongest economic year the United
States has experienced since 1999. The Gross Domestic Product
continued its uninterrupted…
Just before reading e-mailed responses to his “Cafferty Files” question of the 4pm EST hour on Thursday afternoon's The Situation Room on CNN, “How important is the new Osama bin Laden tape?", Jack…
The appropriately named Noah T. Winer has sent an e-mail to his MoveOn.Org Media Action team urging them to fulminate against CNN's plans to use conservative radio host Glenn Beck, complete with…
Unlike the government, business leaders have the leeway
to make tough choices about their expenditures and the financial
health of their companies. Thats important as…
Leave it to Keith Olbermann to rationalize Hillary Clinton's comparison of the Republican-controlled Congress to a plantation, a comparison she made during what should have been a celebration of…
Writing in the January 18 Washington Post, staff writer Manuel Roig-Franzia begins a story about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's apology with a reference to talk radio: NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17 -- An…
Earlier today on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, contributing correspondent Bruce Morton hosted a list of "political gaffes." Noticeably missing from the list was former President Clinton…
FNC’s Brit Hume on Monday night picked up on how, in trying to smear Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a bigot, Senator Ted Kennedy, in a quote showcased by many media outlets, read from what was…
Tasteless personal attacks are nothing new on Air America Radio, but some deserve special mentioning. Coming out of a taped skit at the beginning of the second hour of her afternoon show on Friday…
Mr. In Denial himself, Eric Alterman, is set to debate with Tucker Carlson over media bias. Alterman's take: "There’s no question that television leans rightward rather than leftward" and that "…
While the liberal media laud John Murtha so vigorously that their hearts almost glow out of their chests like E.T., some reporters have looked back to the larger career of John Murtha. At CNSNews.…
The media’s idolizing of Democratic Congressman John Murtha, who in November advocated withdrawing from Iraq, will continue on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, which will feature a segment on him and his…
Does President Bush resemble Adolf Hitler and Satan? That seemed to be the implication during the 9am half hour of CNN's American Morning. A protester wearing a George W. Bush mask, complete with…
The Red Chinese are coming, the Red Chinese are coming, seems to
be the cry from Lou Dobbs about the advent of two Chinese car
companies, Chery and Geely,…
A friend e-mailed me a press release issued today with the headline “National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Receives $100,000 Gift from CNN for Journalist Scholarships.”
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New from the Business & Media Institute
Media Quick to Blame Industry for Mining Tragedy
Reporting on the Sago mine accident has been too hasty…
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard there is an interesting article by Stephen F. Hayes titled “Saddam’s Terror Training Camps”. In it the author reports the former Iraqi regime of Saddam…
You can just feel the media’s euphoria over lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleading guilty to fleecing clients and throwing goodies at legislators. Overnight, Rush Limbaugh could play an audio montage of…
Tom DeLay’s ouster from the House leadership is the “one good thing that's come out” of the Abramoff scandal, CBS’s Andy Rooney declared Friday night during a live appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live…
An on-screen caption during the segment reported the
actual average to be 13.4 percent, according to Bankrate.com. The
same
Web site accessed…
This morning, CNN ran a report (watch) on the plight of Iraqi parents who can't find emergency care for their very sick children, and how
Sanctions, war, and the insurgency have cripple Iraq's…
On CNN Headline News's "Showbiz Tonight" last night, Tom O'Neil, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and its Oscar website TheEnvelope.com, couldn't seem to make up his mind on Jon Stewart…
Did the NSA, the government's international communications monitoring arm, spy on CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour? Lots of lefty blogs are upset about the possibility (see the Moderate Voice's…
BioWillie. Its not a genetically modified country singer; its a
new alternative fuel. And as the media have reported on Willie
Nelsons crop-based energy…
Closing his story with a warning from an unnamed former miner that
new safety laws are often written in blood, NBCs Martin Savidge
presented viewers of the…