by Bill Scher | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday on CBS' Face The Nation, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour applauded conservative Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller for opposing federal aid to his own state. On what grounds? Because slashing state budgets in the middle of a recession is no big deal. Gov....
by Zach Carter | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lot of CNBC anchors do not seem to understand how regulation works. In fact, it seems like the network's anchors don't really get how competition works. If you've tuned into the business channel this summer, chances are you've heard its anchors pushing the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
You wouldn't know it from this past weekend's media coverage of Glenn Beck's effort to co-opt the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the site of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, but there was a counterdemonstration that day that featured people...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 29, 2010 | Blog
'Soak the rich,' after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in 'respectable' media circles. At long last, we may be witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in how we, as a society, talk about taxing the rich. Until this summer,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 27, 2010 | Blog
Four prominent leaders of women's organizations held a conference call today, accompanied by Rep. Raul Grijalva, to demand the resignation of retired Sen. Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Their comments, together with a number of private...
