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30th Aug, 2006 1:39pm
It really wasn't so long ago that the Times found it of vital importance exactly who told columnist Robert Novak that anti-war ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.Now we know, thanks to "Hubris," a new book by Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff and left-wing writer David Corn of The Nation, someone who bears much responsibility for puffing up the Plame non-story in the first place. Times legal reporter Neil Lewis notes what everyone who has Internet access alreadyknows - that…
30th Aug, 2006 12:41pm
Slow news week, huh? Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse gets front-page play for "Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices' Clerks."There's even a banner graphic after the jump, "The Justices and Their Law Clerks," which does the affirmative action-style bean-counting, ranking the justices based on the percentage of female law clerks each has hired since 2000. "Some speculated that Justice Antonin Scalia, who hired only two women among 28 law clerks during the last seven years and who will…
30th Aug, 2006 12:28pm
Wednesday's off-lead by Rick Lyman, "Census Reports Slight Increase In '05 Incomes - More Work Is Seen, Not Bigger Paychecks," doesn't contain direct Bush-bashing or coddling of the economic record of the Clinton administration.Still, liberal assumptions abound from the get-go: "The nation's median household income rose slightly faster than inflation last year for the first time in six years, the Census Bureau reported yesterday."The rise, however, had little to do with bigger paychecks - in…
30th Aug, 2006 11:22am
      Happy with the falling prices at the pump? Fuhgeddaboudit!       That’s what economic wiseguy Matt Lauer suggested to viewers of the August 30 “Today” show, even though oil analysts predict falling gas prices this fall and his own network erroneously predicted $3.50-a-gallon gasoline just a few weeks ago.           “You’re probably feeling a little better these days when you fill up your car at the gas station,” Lauer admitted as he teased a story by correspondent Kevin Tibbles. The “…
29th Aug, 2006 5:11pm
     “We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a cardiologist.      “This is really something to show finally that there is a parallel” between high blood pressure and hours spent at work, Sawyer said as she talked with New York Presbyterian Hospital cardiologist Lori Mosca.      People who work 40 or more hours…
29th Aug, 2006 4:19pm
Liberal critic Anita Gates reviewsa left-leaning PBS special "P.O.V. - Waging a Living," airing tonight, and finds it "affecting" but discouraging."Jean Reynolds is 51 and earns $11 an hour. Jerry Longoria, 42, earns $12. Mary Venittelli, 41, earns $2.13 plus tips. Barbara Brooks, 36, earns $8.25."These are the values the market places on the men and women who care for our infirm elderly, guard our office buildings and juvenile offenders and serve our restaurant meals. Roger Weisberg's…
29th Aug, 2006 1:40pm
     “Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found that driver happy with the nationwide trend of falling gas prices, two of the broadcast network newscasts the night before ignored the story while ABC gave it only passing mention.     Contrast that with just a few weeks ago, when the media were worrying…
29th Aug, 2006 1:28pm
Anne Kornblut (who's taken on the White House beat while Elisabeth Bumiller works on a book on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) on Tuesday offers this view of Bush's trip to the site of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. It's not a bad story, but this paragraph portrays Bush in an unnecessarily unflattering light: "When the storm actually hit and his advisers began to realize the scope of the catastrophe, Mr. Bush was in Southern California on a campaign-style travel swing. Images of a remote…
29th Aug, 2006 1:15pm
Monday's lead story by union reporter Steven Greenhouse and economics reporter David Leonhardt, "Real Wages Fail To Match A Rise In Productivity - Political Fallout Is Seen - Pay as Share of Economic Reaches Low Point - Inflation Takes Toll" has a liberally stacked deck of headlines to accompany a story that looks at the economy through an equallymisleading liberal prism."With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic…
28th Aug, 2006 5:50pm
     CNN’s Allen Wastler recently dialed up pro-regulation rhetoric in a rant against Verizon (NYSE: VZ). “These telecoms. Somebody ought to regulate them, huh?” a nearly apoplectic Allen Wastler asked his colleagues as he began his August 26 tirade on “In the Money.”        Nowhere in his story did the CNN/Money.com editor mention the high cost government already imposes on phone customers with taxes and fees, or that the FCC voted recently to expand the reach of the “universal service fee” to…