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January 25, 2010
It’s curious to see people in the mainstream media try to make sense of the Tea Party movement. The New York Times, which once called the Tea Parties a psychological phenomenon rather than a political movement, has now changed its tune.In the wake…
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January 22, 2010
CNBC “Squawk Box” co-hosts Joe Kernen and Becky Quick understand public opposition to Obamacare. Unfortunately, their colleague John Harwood, who covers Washington, D.C. for the network, doesn’t.
On Jan. 22, Harwood appeared on the program to…
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January 25, 2010
Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid’s analysis of President Barack Obama’s latest Wall Street proposals is anything to go…
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September 24, 2008
Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks…
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September 24, 2008
It was just a matter of time. Now that government has taken over services normally offered by private corporations as a result of the recent series of bailouts, environmentalists have proposed green building…
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September 23, 2008
One of Sen. John McCain’s strategists called The New York Times a “pro-Obama advocacy organization,” on Sept. 22, and CNBC’s John Harwood just couldn’t understand why.
That was just “over-the-top,”…
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September 22, 2008
Last week, CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood estimated the crisis on Wall Street would benefit Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for the White House but on September 22, he suggested Obama’s race might outweigh that. …
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September 19, 2008
Has CNBC, the financial network of NBC Universal, become the funeral parlor of free-market capitalism?
Rob Cox, a former Bloomberg South Europe bureau chief who is now U.S.…
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September 19, 2008
If you want to get people on your side of an issue, scare them by suggesting something is going to hurt their children.
That’s the environmentalists’ strategy, according to Philip Shabecoff,…
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September 18, 2008
Like a steamroller, MSNBC host Chris Matthews ran over Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., in an interview about Sen. John McCain, the GOP and the nation’s economic problems.
The “Hardball” host assaulted…