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August 16, 2010
CBS News reporter Leslie Stahl definitely wasn’t born a coal miner’s daughter.
On the August 15 edition of ‘60 Minutes,’ Stahl featured a 13-minute segment about coal ash, a byproduct of coal production, and revisited the infamous December 2008…
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August 9, 2010
If members of Congress are looking for a book to read over their summer break, perhaps they should pick up the children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” It’s the story of how, given a cookie, the mouse will innocently demand more and more…
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August 5, 2010
To have, or not to have. This is the question the media love to hype up.
In August 5 story for ABCNews.com, reporter Rich Blake touted government data indicating a record number of food stamp recipients and a “sharp” increase in the number of…
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August 5, 2010
If news outlets were fueled by bias, then ABC, CBS, and NBC would be Hummers.
Over the past two years, the media have declared Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) “dying” while celebrating the popularity of hybrid cars. Americans disagree. Data from…
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July 29, 2010
The media pompoms are out again.
In his July 28 “Street Sweep” blog, Fortune.com reporter Colin Barr highlighted a paper by Moody’s Analytics claiming government stimulus funds “averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0.” The paper…
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July 28, 2010
If the newspaper business goes under, The Associated Press might try a second career as a fight promoter.
In a July 27 story following President Obama’s Rose Garden speech, AP released a tiny news brief about Obama’s call to Congress to pass his…
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July 26, 2010
Maybe now would be the perfect time for the former British Petroleum to market itself as BP: Battery Plug-in. The realities of owning and operating the electric cars championed by the Obama administration and the environmental left are difficult…
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July 23, 2010
If you heard taps being played yesterday evening, there’s a good chance it came from Time magazine’s headquarters.
On Time’s Ecocentric blog, author Bryan Walsh joined other media members in bemoaning the “death” of the cap-and-trade bill after…
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July 16, 2010
Nothing makes the media happier than an expansion of government.
The New York Times showed that on July 16 in their reaction to the passage of financial reform. In “Financial Overhauls Signals Shift on Deregulation,” reporters Binyamin Applebaum and…
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July 14, 2010
With the World Cup over, the vuvuzelas have silenced but another horn is still being blown: the journalism bailout horn.
In a July 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed, liberal Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger called for increased public…
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