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December 8, 2008
The potential bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler has been the talk of the news media, so CNN’s “Your $$$$$” brought on three guests with various opinions to discuss the issue Dec. 6.
One of those…
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December 8, 2008
If print is becoming journalism’s dying backwater, Paul Krugman isn’t showing it.
In a Dec. 6 interview in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist told the…
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December 8, 2008
“Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys,” declare the commercials for TNT’s new drama “Leverage,” starring Timothy Hutton. That’s the morally ambiguous theme of the show, which features a group of hitherto loner…
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December 8, 2008
The media love to assign blame for financial hardship, but it’s rare that they turn the microscope on themselves like columnist David Carr did in The New York Times Dec. 8.
In a front page column of the Business Day section, Carr noted…
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December 5, 2008
First, the CEOs of the fledgling Big Three U.S. automakers made fools of themselves by arriving in Washington, D.C., on private jets. But their latest ploy – which most journalists seem to have missed – might top even that.…
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December 5, 2008
The media and politicians have scrambled to assign blame for what has caused the Big Three automakers – Ford (NYSE:F), General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Chrysler (NYSE:DAI) – to request a taxpayer-funded bailout.
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December 5, 2008
No art for you! That’s the message ABC investigative correspondent Brian Ross sent to Swiss bank UBS.
Ross, who has found a niche storming corporate gatherings in an attempt to expose alleged…
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December 5, 2008
Representing your constituents’ interest is simply code for taking an ideological position, according to CNBC “Street Signs” host Erin Burnett.
Burnett appeared on MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania…
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December 4, 2008
Is it immature to say, “We told you so?”
The Business & Media Institute on Nov. 6 noted the media’s tendency to grant incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a free pass on his…
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December 4, 2008
You can always count on Michael Moore to offer an outrageous left-wing point-of-view.
Moore made two appearances on cable talk programs Dec. 3 – first on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann…