Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
On the heels of GM closing 20 US plants for a couple of weeks and Chrysler shutting down all plants for a full month, President Bush has said, and Dana Perino, Press Secretary confirms, that Bush is considering an ‘Orderly’ bankruptcy for the Big 3. In a very detailed AP report, Bush admitted there were [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Autos, Barack Obama, Bush Admin, Congress, Constitution, Courts, Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, Recession, Stuart O'Neill, US Manufacturing
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest campaign ad from John McCain contends today that his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, “stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.”
But in truth, Sarah Palin “was for the infamous bridge before she was against it.” AP explains in a Fact Check and the WSJ notes that the “Record Contradicts Palin’s ‘Bridge’ Claims.”
Interestingly, there’s “more than one “bridge to [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Alaska, Campaign Ad, Congress, Conservatives, Earmarks, General Election, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The Blogosphere, In The News, John McCain '08, McCain-Palin '08, More of the Same, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans, WSJ
Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Rosemary and Walter Brasch
During the time that Bill Clinton was rocking the Democratic convention, ABC, CBS, and Fox were showing re-runs, NBC was showing the second hour of “America’s Got Talent,” and the CW was showing the second season finale of “Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.”
Less than two decades ago, the networks gave the conventions [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, AP News, CBS News, DNC, Dem Convention, Democrats, N.Y. Times, NBC News, News Media, Political Parties, Politics, RNC, Republicans, Walter Brasch
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Over the weekend I put up a quick reference link to a growing controversy involving AP News and the blogosphere. Rogers Cadenhead, publisher of the Drudge Retort sent out an email to fellow liberal bloggers late last week stating that he had received a “letter to the Drudge Retort asking it to remove seven items [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Bloggers, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Internet, Media News, News Media, Pamela Leavey
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Jeff Jarvis explains on BuzzMachine. See also: Newshoggers.com, skippy the bush kangaroo, culturekitchen, Workbench, The Impolitic and Comments from Left Field.
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Filed under: AP News, In The Blogosphere, News Media, Pamela Leavey
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
No matter how you feel about the eventual Democratic nominee (Hillary or Obama), today was a bad day for democracy. Not once, but twice (at least, the day is still young) AP tried to call this race before the voters had a chance to get to the polls. The media shamelessly tried to influence the results [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Barack Obama '08, Democratic Daily, Democrats, Election '08, Gilbert Martinez, Hillary Clinton '08, In The Blogosphere, In The News, News Media, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
AP News is all about jumping the gun today. First they broke with a story that Hillary would concede tonight (see below), and that was wrong. Now they are claiming that by their tally, “Obama effectively clinches nomination.”
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Barack Obama '08, Delegates, Democrats, Election '08, Hillary Clinton '08, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, State Politics
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Here we go again… Yesterday the media was abuzz that Hillary was set to concede but, as I reported here, her campaign denied the rumors. So again, this morning AP News broke a story that Clinton was “set to concede delegate race to Obama” tonight.
I emailed Clinton’s Internet Communications Director for clarification. Not so, I was told [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Barack Obama '08, Democrats, Election '08, Hillary Clinton '08, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, State Politics
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There are no words to express the sadness over the news on Ted Kennedy’s condition. Doctors from Mass General Hospital announced today that kennedy has “a cancerous brain tumor” that caused the “seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend.”
“He remains in good spirits and full of energy,” the doctors for the 76-year-old Massachusetts [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Democrats, In The News, Massachusetts, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Sen. Ted Kennedy, State Politics
Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I filled my gas tank two days ago. $3.91 a gallon for regular. How much are you paying at the pumps? AP News reports tonight that “a national survey says the average price for regular gasoline rose about 17 cents in the last two weeks.”
The average price of self-serve regular gasoline on Friday was $3.79 [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Big Oil, Consumers, Economic News, Economy, Gas Prices, In The News, Pamela Leavey
