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Networks Flip Flop on Jobs Unemployment has reached a 26-year-high under President Obama, but a look at network media coverage from 1982 reveals a huge difference…

Somewhere in our office are old bumper stickers proclaiming: “Proud Member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.” They are relics of another time, when Bill Clinton was president, his wife Hillary had shown her political acumen doing health care…

Recent videos from two investigative reporters, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, with the help of Andrew Breitbart, showed that community-group ACORN engaging in scandalous practices. But MSNBC host Rachel Maddow argued Sept. 24 that wasn’t the…

Remember “Baghdad Bob,” the Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf? Even with Iraqi forces in a full rout and American Marines just blocks away Baghdad Bob would completely deny the presence of U.S. troops in the Iraqi capitol.…

No one can accuse “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric of being totally in the tank for President Barack Obama – at least when it comes to the issue of health care.

Couric appeared in a Facebook exclusive video chat on Sept. 24 and…

Millionaire Michael Moore says capitalism is evil and that the entire system should be thrown out for one that is “democratic” and “fair.”

That’s the overarching message of Moore’s new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which will be…

The progressive mindset is a curious one, as evidenced by New York Times columnist and Nobel Economics Prize recipient Paul Krugman.

Krugman appeared on MSNBC’s Sept. 23 “The Rachel Maddow Show” and lamented that the Obama…

Media Embrace Millionaire Moore's Vendetta against Capitalism Film critics praised Michael Moores latest piece of propaganda, Capitalism: A Love Story, but…

Nar-cis-sism – noun

1.      inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity

- Dictionary.com

In mythology, Narcissus was the guy who fell in love with his own reflection.

In 2009, he’s the…

I’m in the advertising business, so it’s not all that easy to show me a sales pitch I’m shamed by. But I found one over the weekend, while I was wandering around in a middle-class shopping mall in Jacksonville, Florida. In front of a store, a…

This could be dismissed as anti-human – but the theory the environment can be saved by encouraging the use of birth control is one that has been popular with media some environmentalists.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs certainly hasn’t shied away from…

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced on Sept. 14 that the “recession is very likely over at this point.” Good news if he turns out to be right, but it will also mean that the network news media were wildly wrong about the economy –…

The Media Depression that Wasn't (Even Close) Major news outlets spent much of 2008 and 2009 portraying the U.S. economy as on the brink of a second…

Michael Moore, the man of many hats – documentary filmmaker, political scientist and now, singer.

Moore has been making the rounds to promote his new movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” On NBC’s Sept. 15 “Jay Leno Show,” Moore…

Here’s a number you’re not likely to hear from the nightly news: According to the CNW Marketing Research Automotive Consumer Spending…

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Clyde Prestowitz makes his case for higher tariffs by slaying a strawman ("Obama can help free trade with tariffs," Sept. 10).  According to Prestowitz, the case for free trade rests on "the assumptions that the…

Just one year ago the investment firm Lehman Brothers collapsed, kicking off a financial panic. CNN spent much of “American Morning” Sept. 14 arguing that nothing has changed to prevent another financial collapse and that Wall Street needs more…

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, which is a non-partisan 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has decided to show its disapproval of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” remarks by…

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” said Sherlock Holmes. This explains, I guess, how so many independent voters, moderate Democrats and even moderate Republicans were deceived by the Obama who campaigned for the presidency…

Despite an unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent, the Obama administration has claimed its stimulus package is working and economic recovery is on its way.

At a Labor Day picnic Sept. 7, Obama accused administration critics of having “…