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Editor, The New York Times

229 West 43rd St.

New York, NY 10036

To the Editor:

Presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino said Dec. 12 that "Under normal economic conditions we would prefer that markets determine the…

     Time and again we’ve heard about the lost jobs and economic impact of failing to bail out the beleaguered American auto manufacturers. But little mention has been made of the consequences of going through with the bailout…

     All is fair in love and war … and environmentalism.

     A Greenpeace advertisement attacking the fishing industry that was posted on YouTube Dec. 3 spells out doom and gloom for a…

     Call it a classic Keynesian fiscal strategy, as some have, but in the midst of this financial crisis, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, has a more cost-efficient means of stimulating the American economy than massive bailouts. .

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     “Nightly News” went out of its way to show how the American public relies on government Dec. 10 by focusing on the public library in it’s “Hard Times” series.

     The broadcast examined the hardships public libraries are facing in…

     A new TV program, loosely swiped from a TV show of long ago, debuts tonight on Fox. As I understand it, in “The Secret Millionaire” we will see millionaires go undercover, work for a week in some poorly paid job and live as the oppressed…

     Remember when you were young and encouraged to take your vitamins to grow up big and strong? That was probably a waste of time – at least at least according two of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Dec. 9…

     When the media aren’t talking about the bailout, they’re talking jobs. They should be. Job losses and unemployment are up. A year into what we just heard is an official recession, unemployment hit 6.7 percent. That’s the highest for the…

Editor, The Wall Street Journal

200 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10281

To the Editor:

Thomas Frank laments that "market logic" promotes transactions that he finds unappealing, such as surrogate-mother contracts…

     Taking money from the federal government was bound to have unintended consequences, and that’s becoming evident in the case of a closed Midwestern factory.

     Amid all the fear…

Editor, Baltimore Sun

Dear Editor:

Dan Neil wants to nationalize General Motors, in part because "without big subsidies, there is no way in the near term to build these [electric] vehicles and make a reasonable profit, because…

     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.

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     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…

     “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…

     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,…

     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…

     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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    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…

     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 “…