Corporate Exodus from USCAP Hidden Away in Blog Post

Corporations are beginning to pull out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a major driving force behind "cap and trade" proposals. But The New York Times would prefer that readers not become privy to yet another setback for the environmental movement. When USCAP was formed it earned expansive coverage but news of its possible demise only earns a blog post... Where is the coverage of corporations that have pulled out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) after lobbying in ...

NYT Report on Polls Conceals Public’s Intense Opposition to Democrats

Poll numbers show that Barack Obama has reached his lowest ebb of public approval, while the Democrats in the House and Senate are in danger of being turned out in the 2010 midterm elections. But The New York Times is making every effort to pump up and inflate Obama's political standing beyond what the poll numbers suggest. The public may not be in love with Republicans, but the politcal challenges to Democrats are very evident to any who takes a hard look at the numbers this report attempts to ...

Obama Gets Free Pass on Empty Commitment to Nuclear Power

President Obama is now moving aggressively to promote the use of nuclear power by way of boosting the number of loan guarantees for new projects, that is to say if an article following up on his State of the Union comments is to be believed. Obama’s rhetorical commitment toward the expansion of nuclear power marked one of the few moments where he attracted bipartisan applause, as The New York Times observes. But, at the same time, the article makes only a passing reference to the administr...

Obama’s Unconventional Exchange with GOP Gets Good Coverage

President Obama and House Republicans are appropriately credited for contributing to a rich and lively exchange in this very well-written, informative and highly detailed report on their encounter in Baltimore, Md. This very effective article co-authored by Peter Baker and Carl Hulse captures the tone and spirit of the debate between a president who is now on the defensive and a minority party that appears to past its nadir Historians who are looking for a window into the early, pivotal momen...

Misleading Economic Numbers Obscure Jobless Recovery

Back in the 1980s, White House officials joked about how the news media stopped using the term “Reaganonomics” once the economy began to turnaround. There was no Internet, or alternative news media to offset the media blackout; just the great communicator himself and the common sense of the American media. Likewise, George W. Bush did not have a friendly news media to laud the success of  his tax cuts during the 2004 campaign when the economy was churning jobs and the stock market was rising....