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The recent massive oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico led to in-depth reports by all three network newscasts, but only NBC spun the news negatively. There it was portrayed as a loss to environmentalists and consumers.
On his September 5 “Nightly News” broadcast, anchor Brian Williams painted the new discovery as an unfortunate development. While “some cheered the news that this huge expanse of oil has been found,” Williams noted, “others…
Taking its cue from left-wing bloggers, California-based reporter Jesse McKinley files a respectful story Wednesday morning on left-wing complaints about a new ABC miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," "9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized As Inaccurate And Biased."
"Criticized" by left-wingers and former Clintonites, though the Times tries its best to hide that fact.
"Days before its scheduled debut, the first major television miniseries about the Sept. 11 attacks was being criticized on Tuesday as biased…
“Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability,” the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) advises its members.
That’s not how USA Today reporter Stephanie Armour’s September 5 story on “living with the minimum wage” appeared in the paper. The full-page story and photo essay told how hard it is to live on a paycheck close to Florida’s minimum wage of $6.40 an hour…
On Wednesday's front page, congressional reporter Carl Hulse notes that illegal immigration is a legitimate national issue, albeit via some loaded ideological language ("In Bellwether District, G.O.P. Runs on Immigration").
"It was not by chance that Republicans brought their summer tour of hearings on illegal immigration to this growing community just outside Denver.
"Not only is Aurora bearing the costs of schooling and providing other services for a significant population of illegal…
Check out some of the questions fromGore-voter Deborah Solomon's Q&A with founding feminist Gloria Steinem, "All About Eve."
"But women, too, can be noisy right-wingers. Look at Ann Coulter."
Steinem replies arrogantly: "If you create a movement, you create jobs and profits for someone to sell it out. That's true of Phyllis Schlafly. It's true of Ann Coulter; with both of them, I couldn't invent a better adversary."
Solomon ignores that arrogance and asks later: "Is Condoleezza Rice an ally…
Maybe it could be called “The Conspiracy Hour with Jack Cafferty.” On the September 2 “In the Money,” the program’s host recycled his theory that gas prices are dropping because of scheming oil companies.
“You know, if you were a real cynic, you could also wonder if the oil companies might not be pulling the price of gas down to help the Republicans get re-elected in the midterm elections a couple of months away,” Cafferty suggested…
There's some typical Times labeling bias in Saturday's piece by Julia Preston on illegalimmigration, "Pennsylvania Town Delays Enforcing Tough New Immigration Law."
"The suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, charged that the ordinance was 'riddled with constitutional flaws,' overstepped the bounds of municipal authority and would discriminate against any residents who appeared to be foreigners. Several plaintiffs are Hazleton…
Here's more from Saturday's front page that's more in keeping with the Times political world view: "Rove's Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel," by reporters Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg.
Get past that condescending headline portraying Republicans as faithful followers of charistmatic operatives and you read that "Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, is struggling to steer the Republican Party to victory this fall at a time when he appears to have the least political authority…
Ever since the "controversy" was ignited by Bush enemies like Joseph Wilsonthree years ago, The New York Times has run almost 40 front-page stories on the leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame (Wilson's wife, who recommendedWilson be sent to Africa to investigate claims of uranium shopping by Iraq)to Robert Novak. But now that the prime anti-Bush angle has fizzled out, the Times has been notably reluctant to return to the scene of the non-crime.
This Saturday, the Times finally put…
Jeremy Peters' online filing Friday afternoon, "Economy Adds More Jobs in August Than in July," follows in the footsteps of the Times' discredited lead-story claim from Monday that wages for U.S. workers aren't keeping up with productivity.
"The economy added more jobs in August than it did in July, and the national unemployment rate ticked down a tenth of a point. But the average American worker is logging fewer hours on the job and wage gains are minimal, according to new statistics released…