Bob McCarty Writes

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 [...]

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Congressional Democrats are not expected to begin their push for reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” until next year.  Until then, however, I expect they’ll be paying close attention to news reports from Barack Obama’s family stomping grounds in Kenya.  Why?  Because the East African nation appears to be functioning as a test market for [...]

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On the homestretch of the 2008 presidential election season, ABC News technology writer Michael Malone expressed what so many Americans feel they already know in his article, Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline, published Friday.  It begins this way: The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution [...]

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John McCain charged up a crowd of nearly 3,000 working Missourians when he visited a 9 a.m. rally at New Town St. Charles, a unique neighborhood-community northwest of St. Louis. Following him, of course, was a gaggle of news media from the major print and electronic news media (above) pretending to do their jobs. There [...]

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In a post three days ago, I asked a question — Will Obama Be First Arab-American President? — none in the mainstream news media have dared to address.  It followed my reading of a Wisconsin-based writer’s claim that, if elected, Barack Obama will be the nation’s first Arab-American president.  Today, I ask another race-related — [...]

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The cross-section of reviews below, from members of the news media coast to coast, show that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin exceeded expectations and, according to many, won tonight’s debate with Democrat Joe Biden. * * * Luntz Focus Group Calls Palin The Winner: “I Think She Just Spoke To The People, The American [...]

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Barack Obama‘s photo op tour across the Middle East and Europe has generated a great deal of news media attention for the presumptive Democrat Party presidential nominee. One article, however, caused me to buy into the belief shared by many of my right-wing conservative brethren: Members of the mainstream news media are “in the tank” [...]

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