MRC Special Report: The Media's Obama Miracle

geoff.dickens — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:02:02 +0000

How Journalists Pretend There Aren't Any White House Scandals

Tim Graham

Geoffrey Dickens

On October 27, 2011, former Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter wrote a column for Bloomberg News headlined “Obama Miracle is White House Free of Scandal.” Alter began: “President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 [race] with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn’t received much attention: He’s honest.”

Only the NYTimes Gives Former Dem. Gov. Jon Corzine Benefit of the Doubt on MF Global Memo: 'No Smoking Gun'

clay.waters — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:02:28 +0000

Clay Waters

Has the New York Times Business section gone soft on former New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, now under the scandal spotlight for his service as chief executive of the failed financial services firm MF Global?