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December 2, 2008
CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer said on NBC’s “Today” show Dec. 2 that comparisons between the current economy and the Great Depression are “scare tactics.” Maybe he forgot about his own reliance on the juxtaposition.…
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December 2, 2008
When Barack Obama touted his plan to “spread the wealth around,” conservatives worried about the creep of Socialism – or Socialist creeps – coming to Washington. But as millions of zealous Obama worshippers prepare to invade the nation’s…
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December 1, 2008
Editor, The New York Times Book Review
229 West 43rd St.
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To the Editor:
Reviewing Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, David Leonhardt favorably quotes the author: "We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that…
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December 1, 2008
It’s 2008. More than 80 percent of Americans have cell phones; many others have video game consoles, and the iPod is seemingly ubiquitous.
Yet the news media insist that America is embroiled…
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December 1, 2008
A simple, “Oops, we were wrong – things weren’t as bad as we predicted,” would have sufficed. But that would have meant straying from the message that everything is bad with the American economy.
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November 26, 2008
Networks
Gloss Over Geithners Past, Ignore Criticism
Reports on ABC, CBS and NBC have
promoted incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner as highly
regarded and much-admired, but have…
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November 26, 2008
Have you noticed that the media largely fail to connect the dots between related events?
In all the reporting on the auto industry’s ills, little is said about the government as the chief cause. Politicians holler at auto executives in…
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November 26, 2008
The best defense, the saying goes, is a good offense. In the case of the Big Three automakers, their offense is defense. Chrysler, GM and Ford are pushing for a $25-billion bridge loan by claiming the collapse of their industry would harm…
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November 26, 2008
It looks like journalists are adopting the Chris Matthews philosophy of covering the transition into President-elect Barack Obama’s administration: don’t rock the boat.
Broadcast network news…
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November 26, 2008
Now that the government has assumed the role of economic planner with various bailout packages and stimulus plans, experts are predicting a federal budget deficit of $1 trillion.
That much…
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