Credit Card Rules Limiting Access for Stay-at-home Moms

julia.seymour — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:34:58 +0000

CNN Money reports on an unintended consequence of Obama regulation the media didn’t see coming and left touted as ‘lifeboat’ for consumers.

Ryan Robertson

Julia A. Seymour

CNN Money recently introduced the world to Holly McCall, a thirty-four year old stay-at-home mother of two from Vienna, Va, who is fighting against the credit card “reforms” enacted in 2009. in a May 16 story, CNN Money’s Blake Ellis wrote that despite approval in the past, McCall was denied a credit card from Target last fall. She blamed a 2009 law that was supposed to “protect consumers.”

Networks Target Romney’s Wealth 13 Times More Than Richer Sen. Kerry

dan.gainor — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:06:46 +0000

2004 Democratic candidate married to Heinz heiress, far wealthier than his 2012 counterpart.

Mike Ciandella

The nomination is several weeks away, but the party has its “inevitable” candidate. With hundreds of millions of dollars at his disposal, opponents raise concerns about whether that vast wealth had completely disconnected him from the reality that most Americans face every day.

The year was 2004 and the candidate Sen. John Kerry. But the major networks gave Kerry’s great wealth nowhere near the attention that they have given to Gov. Mitt Romney’s millions in 2012.

Greece Heads for Default, Despite Media Predictions It Wouldn’t

julia.seymour — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:56:31 +0000

Jim Cramer and other media analysts predicted default wouldn’t be necessary thanks to government bailouts.

Paul Wilson, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media

Greece is the perfect example of the eventual outcome of unchecked spending – especially as it creeps closer and closer to defaulting on its massive debts, despite multiple government bailouts in May 2011. One recent BBC News headline warned: “Greece: ‘Default within the euro is possible’.”

NY Times Goes to Extremes to Convince Readers of Student Loan Crisis

julia.seymour — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:33:18 +0000

Front page story cites student $120,000 in debt; later admits only 3 percent of borrowers have $100K+ burden.

Julia A. Seymour

The New York Times continued and old media theme of complaining about the volume of student debt on May 13 with its front page story: “A Generation Hobbled by College Debt.”

Times writers Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren began the 4,647-word essay about the problem of growing student debt began with the extreme example of one girl who is graduating $120,000 in debt.

Communications Union Head Chafes at ‘Limits of Democracy’

matt.philbin — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:55:18 +0000

Scott Robbins

As an ever-shrinking number of newspaper readers can attest, most major U.S. papers skew liberal. But its not every day the head of a union representing journalists lays out a list of goals that might have been written by MoveOn.org, and displays a contempt for democracy more at home on the editorial pages of state-run organs in third-world dictatorships.

Unemployment Rate Drops Because 522,000 Give Up Jobs Search

julia.seymour — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:06:44 +0000

April adds only 115,000 jobs, while millions make up ranks of ‘invisible unemployed.’

Julia A. Seymour

About 45,000 fewer jobs were added in April than economists expected, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent due to more than a half million people giving up the job search. CNN Money reacted with the headline “hiring fizzles.”

Occupy-Loving Washington Post Pushes Furnishings for the 1 Percent

matt.philbin — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:36:14 +0000

Paul Wilson, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media

There's real paradox in romanticizing squalid, rat infested tents in one section of your publication while in another advising well-heeled readers where to buy a $5,000 Chippendale rug. But such is life at a liberal big-city newspaper.

Media Label Spending Cuts ‘Draconian’ and ‘Folly,’ As Debt Grows by Over $4 Trillion

julia.seymour — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:45:22 +0000

In three years since the Senate last passed a budget, attempts to curtail spending have been criticized by media.

Julia A. Seymour

It was nearly three years ago that the U.S. Senate last passed a budget, despite the need for a clear plan to tackle debt and spending issues. The anniversary of that last budget is April 29, 2009. Since that time, the media have repeated the liberal theme that proposals to cut or cap spending are “draconian,” even when the cuts were only 4.6 percent of the year’s budget deficit.

Dr. Oz Tells Readers to Skip Eating Beef

dan.gainor — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:17:05 +0000

Also continues crusade against so-called ‘pink slime.’

Mike Ciandella

Dr. Oz and his fellow physician Dr. Michael Roizen have escalated the media’s attacks against beef. They joined the countless opponents of lean, finely textured beef, often referred to as “pink slime” by the media and lefty activists, but took their argument further, calling for people to “seriously consider abandoning red meat.”

Senate Rejects ‘Buffett Rule,’ Despite Networks’ Promotion of ‘Tax Reform’

julia.seymour — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:53 +0000

Nearly 70 percent of stories on millionaires tax include ‘fair’ talk; only 8 percent mention ‘politics of envy.’

Julia A. Seymour

The mainstream media rarely like the very rich, but billionaire Warren Buffett is the exception. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO remains unscathed, even adored by the liberal news media due to his liberal politics.