walmart

Mika Brzezinski Rejects Financial Journalist’s Explanation of Wages

julia.seymour — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:23:18 +0000

While bashing Walmart, MSNBC host asks for response from CNBC’s Brian Sullivan, scoffs at his answer.

Sean Long

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski piled on to left-wing media attacks against Walmart on June 23, and rejected a fellow journalist’s explanation of how economics works.

— Sean Long is Staff Writer at the Media Research Center. Follow Sean Long on Twitter.

CBS Wants Walmart to Compromise with D.C. By Paying Higher Wages

dan.gainor — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:43:11 +0000

O’Donnell: ‘Very smart’ to call for retail chain to give in.

Kristine Marsh

CBS’s Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell apparently think it’s their job to be economic policy experts instead of journalists. On July 23’s “This Morning,” CBS did a segment on the battle between Walmart and the Washington, D.C. Council and the anchors called for Walmart to “compromise” by raising the wages it pays its workers.

Politico Report: HuffPo Misrepresented Walmart

matt.philbin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:08:44 +0000

Store objects to site’s misrepresentation of healthcare policy.

Mike Ciandella

Slanted lefty “journalism” at HuffPo? Say it ain't so!

News Guild, Soros-Funded Group Encourage Walmart Strike

matt.philbin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:07:51 +0000

MoveOn.org encouraging members to join workers’ protest.

Mike Ciandella

The Newspaper Guild is encouraging its members to support the Walmart strike on Black Friday. Thousands of disgruntled Walmart employees and former employees have planned to protest against the company’s policy of not allowing its workers to unionize. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year.

Examiner Fails to Note Soros’ Funding of Voter ID Controversy

julia.seymour — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:32:22 +0000

Open Society Foundation-supported groups fight proposed voter laws.

Mike Ciandella

Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner wrote a piece entitled “Democrats boycott Coke, Walmart over voter ID laws” on April 4. The piece reported the situation well, with one exception: it didn’t mention that one side of the voter identification debate is almost completely fought by Soros-backed organizations.

Occupiers Protest Free Art Museum to Bash Wal-Mart

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:04:00 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

The incoherent and absurd messaging of the Occupy Wall Street movement continues. Recently, the OWS crowd joined forces with Wal-Mart workers to protest Crystal Bridges, an American art museum that opened on Nov. 11 in Bentonville, Ark.

Art snobs are outraged by the notion of a major art collection in Arkansas, but protesters are trying to tie this in with their class warfare message about the 99 percent vs. 1 percent.