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December 22, 2009
While Senate Democrats scurry to pass an unpopular health care reform bill by Christmas Eve, CNN did something rare on Dec. 22: they offered two different perspectives on the bill, including a critic’s view.
That critic was University of Maryland…
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December 16, 2009
When Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson retooled the $700 billion bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008, the news networks found outrage.
In 2008, reports attacked Paulson, stacking “angry House Democrats” against him on…
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December 3, 2009
For years the news media said that the scientific “consensus” was that global warming is man-made and harmful, and they have censored scientists with other viewpoints, after all the alarmist science was peer reviewed.
Skeptics were ridiculed or…
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December 2, 2009
It’s been nearly two weeks since a scandal shook many people’s faith in the scientists behind global warming alarmism. The scandal forced the University of East Anglia (UK) to divulge that it threw away raw temperature data and prompted the…
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November 16, 2009
On any other day, NBC “Nightly News” would be attacking coal for being a dirty pollutant and advocating reliance on other forms of energy.
But on Nov. 15, as it began the first of its “Our Planet” segments for green week, the network used coal…
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October 30, 2009
The Obama administration continues to push its “jobs created and saved” theme, taking credit for up to a million jobs on account of its $787 billion economic stimulus package (roughly a quarter of which has been spent). But some in the media remain…
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October 23, 2009
Less than three months ago, Newsweek declared that the “recession is over,” on the cover of its Aug. 3 issue and the networks rushed to ask experts the same question.
Well, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that a “broad majority” of people…
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October 21, 2009
Unemployment stands just short of 10 percent and could be revised higher. No, this isn’t the unemployment rate without a stimulus package, it is the rate even after President Obama pushed through the massive $787 billion stimulus package, which he…
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October 14, 2009
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is a media darling now that she was the only Republican to break ranks and vote a health care reform bill out of the Senate Finance Committee Oct. 13. “Good Morning America” interviewed Snowe about health care reform on…
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October 7, 2009
Despite White House claims to the contrary, there is a growing possibility that illegal immigrants will be covered under a health care reform bill. And although the issue was the cause of Rep. Joe Wilson’s “shocking outburst” that generated media…