Mainstream Media
Do you think there comes a point at which people simply stop listening to measurements? As the latest national unemployment numbers rolled out, one certainly got the impression that the news was positive, that recovery is just around the corner. Yet: U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly dropped to a…
The Providence Journal ran this story on the front page, Saturday, with the headline “Stealth GOP effort helped Brown win.” The first paragraphs surely give comfort to those who continue to prefer that the upset not be proof of real grassroots unrest and voter discontent with the Democrats’ policies: The stunning Republican come-from-behind victory in…
1) The ProJo editors on global warming: Still, that a few scientists are accused of manipulating a bit of data from some climate research does not do away with the preponderance of evidence. The latest controversy revolves around the validity of the collection and use of data behind a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
With their preferred candidate going down to Scott Brown, the ProJo editors can’t help but throw a little tantrum excoriating the easily fooled and selfish voters of Massachusetts (remember, it’s all about healthcare for ’em): Part of this was the well-financed campaign pumping up fears of higher taxes for the middle and upper classes to…
On election day in Massachusetts, the desperate ProJo editors have resorted to listing a bunch of “what ifs?” should Scott Brown be elected and Obamacare not pass. Notwithstanding that a counter-argument can be made that passing this particular monstrosity called health care “reform” would make all of the items they identify even worse, the panicked…
I’m not entirely sure what it was, but I found hilarious Matt Allen’s tete-a-tete with Bill Rappleye about the latter’s performance during John Robitaille’s press conference announcing his GOP gubernatorial candidacy. Audio here. On the substance of the discussion, I sorta split the difference. On the one hand, Matt’s concern that Bill holds a personal…
With the ProJo editorial board’s endorsement of Martha Coakley for Senate, it’s become more apparent than ever that the ProJo editorial board has become a single-issue shill for health care reform at all costs. Most important to us is that she is the candidate most likely to carry on the work of the late Sen.…
With the judiciary as important as it is, and with those who typically populate its benches being, by nature, somewhat less prominent, in the public eye, than politicians, the Providence Journal‘s series of profiles of the five people whom the Judicial Nominating Commission has passed along to Governor Carcieri as candidates to fill a state…
Here’s an interesting tidbit, from the very last bullet paragraph, at the bottom of the page here: Times are tough for magazines and newspapers, and necessity still seems to be the mother of invention. The New York Times, in an apparent effort to increase readership and influence, has begun marketing aggressively to college students. This…
… with the Providence Journal declaring itself part of the old, dead Rhode Island. Some of the paper’s journalists have been doing an admirable job of trying to cover Rhode Island as we all see it, but its list of “10 people to watch” in 2010 consists of: An arts entrepreneur A far left healthcare…
