Many – too many – red-blooded American boys grow up on Japanese video-game systems from Sony and Nintendo. Their cultural interests can extend into Japanese cartoons (“anime”) and some even discover Japanese pornographic cartoons (“hentai”). How…
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The “obesity epidemic” is the fault of poor individual choices and sedentary lifestyles, but in the news, blame typically falls on companies, rather than on the individual. CNN has attacked grocer stores, restaurants and food manufacturers for…
Throughout General Electric’s holding off NBC Universal, GE was criticized for using its media arm to promote its own interests through the political process. However, now that Comcast is entering the final stages of merging with NBC Universal,…
CNN Still Hungry for Food Rules, Eats Up Oliver's Call for Billions for School Lunch 'Revolution' Cable network continues its pro-regulation,…
“The View” co-host Joy Behar isn't known for being the most graceful person, but for whatever reason she has managed to land her own cable news show and is a sought after personality for shows like NBC's “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
On…
Since Obama’s health care legislation has been signed into law, the media have been in overdrive about the backlash – whether it’s been former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s “reload” metaphor “targeting” certain congressional districts or how…
Former Red Sox pitcher and baseball legend Curt Schilling is finding out that starting a small business in the state of Massachusetts is a challenging proposition.
Schilling and wife Shonda were interviewed on Fox Business Network’s “…
With March unemployment data to be released April 2, some are anticipating what potentially lower jobless numbers will all mean for the financial markets and the economy as a whole. However, that data will come with the caveat that it will be…
29 March 2010
Editor, The New York Times
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To the Editor:
Paul Krugman writes that "we used to have a workable system for avoiding financial crises, resting on a…
The media love to make predictions about global warming and climate change and National Geographic was no exception.
On March 24, Ker Than argued in National Geographic that “Global warming could make the world a more violent place,…
Conventional wisdom on the right and left has been that President Obama and the Democrats will pay a heavy price in the November mid-term elections for passing the deeply unpopular health care reform bill. But Fox Business Network’s Charlie…
After cheerleading and campaigning on the issue for months, the network news media gleefully reported the signing of the $938 billion monumental health care “reform” bill on March 23.
At the signing, President Barack Obama…
And you thought a couple of plucky young conservative activists with a camera brought down ACORN. Nope. It’s the arch-conservative New York Times that did in the noble community organizing group, or so says The Huffington Post in “Why ACORN Fell…
Obama Signs Business-Hurting, Tax Pledge-Breaking Health Care Bill into Law In month leading to bill's passage, network evening shows failed to…
Is it too much to ask for a member of Congress to show a little grace after a major legislative victory and not resort back to the lowest common denominator?
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who in 2008 made her own socialist Freudian slip…
Blame it on ClimateGate. Ever since those controversial e-mails and documents exposed manipulated climate change numbers, liberals have been scrambling to regain their footing and their followers. The Economist's cover article of their March 18th…
Overshadowed in the ObamaCare shenanigans the past few weeks are provisions weaved into the Democratic health bill that would require all federal student loans to originate with the government – the largest overhaul in decades.
On the…
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, for one, does not want blood on his hands from 45,000 Americans who allegedly die every year due to lack of health insurance. And MSNBC’s Alex Witt, for one, doesn’t think it worth questioning the veracity of that…
While a vote on health care reform legislation appears to be imminent, should it pass it could have broader economic implications, even if the bill itself won’t take effect for some time.
As CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer predicted –…
Is there a conscious effort to give female conservatives a rough time in the mainstream media, especially in this highly politicized environment? Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says there is.
Bachmann, in an interview with the White…