Bob McCarty Writes

Michael, the creative mind behind My Personal Litmus, makes a good point in both the cartoon above and the narrative that accompanies it:
“I just laugh every time I hear the media mention Obama’s picks as being ‘Moderates’ or ‘Centrists.’  But I guess the view makes perfect sense when you consider where the media is viewing [...]

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Is the news media to blame for making economic crisis worse?  According to new poll results released by the Opinion Research Corporation today, they are.
An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe that the US media is making the economic situation worse by projecting fear into people’s minds. The majority of those surveyed feel that the [...]

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When it comes to members of the mainstream news media and their penchant for making dire predictions about the economy, no one describes the phenomenon better than world-famous salesman and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar: “The media has accurately predicted ten of the last two recessions.”
One news outlets, The Independent, opted to take this approach [...]

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After tracking news coverage of a much-publicized hearing on Capitol Hill today, I felt obligated to set the record straight and let it be known that I do not and have never used steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs while blogging.
Unlike Roger “The Rocket” Clemens of Major League Baseball fame, I haven’t been called to testify [...]

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Every once in a while, I like to point readers to some of the better opinion sources with which I’m familiar. One of those is Investor’s Business Daily. They published a worth-reading piece under the headline, H-R-CNN, yesterday. Below is the summary:
Media: CNN can spare us the alibis for letting Democratic operatives slip [...]

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