Erin Burnett
ABC Story Covers NB, Media Matters: Guess Which It Fails to Interview
August 22nd, 2007 5:29 AM
Update with video posted below fold.File this one under the rubric "Unintentionally Revealing Moments of MSM Bias." ABC publishes an article about media watchdog groups and singles out two for mention: NewsBusters and Media Matters. But the article goes on to cite the work of and publish comments by a representative of only one of those groups. Which one do you think it was?Yesterday, ABC posted…
Media's Volatile Coverage of Stock Market: 'Armageddon' or 'The Sky's
August 15th, 2007 5:52 PM
As the stock market went up and down over the past few weeks, media coverage also bounced from end-of-the-world rhetoric to rational analysis.CNBC’s Jim Cramer went on an impassioned rant August 6 calling for the Fed to reduce interest rates.“Bernanke needs to open the discount window. That is how bad things are out there … in the fixed income markets we have Armageddon,” said Cramer on “Stop…
Nets Barely Notice Surge in GDP Growth as They Focus on Dow Plunge
July 27th, 2007 9:50 PM
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Friday all devoted full stories to the fall in the stock market, touted as “the worst two-day point drop for the Dow in five years,” but barely had time for a sentence about the 3.4 percent second quarter jump in the GDP, the biggest in over a year. In fact, neither ABC nor NBC cited the specific 3.4 percent rise in the Gross Domestic Product, the measure…