The Obama administration is joining with some prominent members of the press to get government involved in the future of journalism. The latest effort has the FCC picking a prominent left-wing religion blogger to oversee the FCC’s investigation…
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October 28, 2009
The debate over health care legislation has raged for months. One line of attack coming from liberal politicians on the network news is that insurance companies simply make too much money.
From “The Chris Matthews Show” to network…
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October 28, 2009
New from the Business & Media Institute
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October 28, 2009
Around the globe, environmental protesters tried “a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef,” according to The New York Times.
The sweeping Oct. 24 protest was to bully…
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October 28, 2009
There is now talk of a federal bailout for newspapers. The Washington Post, lobbying for such a bailout in its editorial pages, used Obama-esque language: collective responsibility. That’s the suggestion that newspaper owners are entitled to…
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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”…
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October 21, 2009
Want to make a big splash to bolster your chances in a political campaign? A tried and true strategy for some attorneys general has been to champion a populist position by exploiting the legal system for publicity. Just look at the lead up to the…
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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…
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October 21, 2009
Ford Had a Better Idea: No Bailout Ford stunned everyone with this week's announcement of nearly $1 billion in profit for the third quarter. What's more is that…
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October 21, 2009
It’s an era of hoaxes and hucksters. Balloons shaped like 1950s UFOs dominate the skies and missing children out their parents for their stupid stunts. TV news shows are filled with made up news stories and made up quotes about Rush Limbaugh.…
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October 21, 2009
Uh-oh. According to a report in The Futurist Magazine, from 1982 to 2007, reading declined by nearly 20 percent for the total U.S. population and 30 percent for young adults aged 18-24. Presently, a huge percentage of the population – some 40…
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October 15, 2009
While many in the news media continue to inflate and exaggerate the number of uninsured Americans, National Public Radio is making a change.
NPR’s deputy senior supervising editor Joe Neel drafted an e-mail that was sent out Oct. 14 to…
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October 15, 2009
Michael Moore makes propaganda movies and many in the news media embraced his latest screed against the free markets: “Capitalism: A Love Story.” To NBC, hating capitalism makes Moore a go-to expert for Wall Street bashing.
“Today”…
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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…
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October 14, 2009
The headline should read: “400,000 of U.S. aren’t reading this.” That’s the true story of the latest newspaper cataclysm as USA Today is about to report a loss of 398,000 readers in just one year.
It’s only the latest bad news headline…
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October 14, 2009
In our weird new world, where hope and wishful thinking are the same as accomplishment in the confused minds of many – obviously including the Nobel Prize folks – it’s worth recognizing real accomplishment. For example, comedian Al Franken is…
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October 13, 2009
It’s an odd natural occurrence when you put MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews and CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer together, but when it happens they seem to draw some obvious conclusions – albeit nearly 10 months too late.
Back in…
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October 12, 2009
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an insurance lobbying group, just released its own cost estimate of the health care reform bill currently in the Senate Finance Committee’s hands.
CNN’s Christine Romans criticized the report calling…
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October 12, 2009
Here was a chance for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. to admit he was wrong, and to conclude publicly that government intervention in the private sector doesn’t always result in the best of outcomes.
McCain appeared on CNN’s Oct. 11 “State of the…
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October 8, 2009
With President Obama seeking to nationalize more and more private industry, Michael Moore promoting his latest socialist agit-prop and the left gleefully proclaiming the death of capitalism, a documentary special airing tonight offers a welcome…
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