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1st Sep, 2006 1:58pm
     CBS celebrated California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to force 25 percent cuts in “greenhouse gas” emissions by the year 2020, painting the regulations as a sensible way to grow the economy and protect the environment. But reporter John Blackstone dismissed or ignored objections to the plan, including the charge that it does nothing to actually reduce greenhouse emissions.       “Going its own way on global warming, America’s most populated state intends to roll back its greenhouse…
1st Sep, 2006 12:38pm
Valerie who? The paper of record seems to need a reminder. Judging by its sparse coverage, the Times is apparently trying to pretend the Valerie Plame "outing," which for three years was a matter of national import on its editorial page, news pages, and among its stable of liberal columnists, is no longer even newsworthy now that the inconvenient truth (Armitage?) is out. Plame's CIA identity was leaked to Robert Novak, not by a vengeful White House out to get her husband (anti-war liar Joe…
1st Sep, 2006 11:13am
There'sa labeling overdose by congressional reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg's "President to Renominate Five To Seats on Appeals Court" on Thursday morning."With just a few weeks to go before lawmakers break for their fall campaigns, and with Democrats and even some Republicans objecting to the nominees, their confirmation is in doubt." ("Even some Republicans" are the Times' favorite kind of Republican.)"Even so, the White House move cheered conservatives, who make up an important part of Mr. Bush…
31st Aug, 2006 2:18pm
     CBS News veteran Harry Smith finally confessed something that the Business & Media Institute (BMI) have reported for a while and his colleagues elsewhere in the media have already picked up on: gas prices are on a downward trend.       “It seems like a month ago we were all screaming with our hair on fire about the price of gas going over $3, no end in sight. And now it looks like it's dropping like a stone,” CBS’s Harry Smith marveled on the August 31 edition of “The Early Show…
31st Aug, 2006 1:56pm
Ken Shepherd of the Business and Media Institute catches the Times' David Leonhardt doing a little instant revisionism to his Times' lead storyfrom Monday, cowritten with Steven Greenhouse, that looked at new wage figures through a liberal prism of struggling workers and income inequality.On Monday, Greenhouse and Leonhardt argued "wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits…
31st Aug, 2006 1:26pm
Did"voting irregularities" helpGeorge Bush steal the 2004 election in Ohio? Reporter Ian Urbina helps keep hope alive for conspiracists in Thursday's"Ohio, Facing Suit, to Delay Destroying Ballots From 2004 Election."The text box: "A group of critics says it has found signs of widespread voting irregularities." The phrase "far-left critics" would have been more accurate, but there's not a single label to be found in Urbina's story."With paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio…
31st Aug, 2006 11:36am
     What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.      In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.      “[T]he current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages,” The New York Times’ David Leonhardt and Steven Greenhouse somberly noted in their page A6 article in…
31st Aug, 2006 11:00am
The Israeli news portal YNET (hat tip: National Review's Media Blog) reports that at a media conference Monday in Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger criticized Israel's lack of "proportionality" in its counterattack against Hezbollah after that Lebanon-based terrorist group crossed into Israel and killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers.Erlanger "expressed surprise that Israel's view of the war was different to that of its critics, and said that Israelis didn't 'quite grasp how the war was…
30th Aug, 2006 5:58pm
     “Gee, I’d love to be fair and balanced, but I tried even less than I did two days ago.”       That’s what CNN’s Ali Velshi might as well have said in his August 30 story on “American Morning” in his weeklong series, “Red Tape and Rubble.” The CNN business reporter showed insurance claimants and attorneys suing insurance companies, but failed to include a spokesman from an insurance trade group. He did so, albeit briefly, just two days prior, however.       In between stories of frustrated…
30th Aug, 2006 5:06pm
     How’s the American worker doing on this Labor Day weekend?      According to network news, he’s either about to get laid off or he’s just languishing at his current job.      Recent coverage of work has leaned heavily toward the negative, whether it’s lamenting the failure of a minimum wage increase or scrutinizing workaholic technology use. And ABC News has warned that after Labor Day, “thousands of jobs are expected to be cut.”      But the news is bad, according to ABC, even if…