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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Politics and the Media

June 29, 2011 | Forbes.com
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Media White-wash Flawed Study Of Cancer Drug Approvals

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
Several things are disturbing about the media’s completely uncritical, credulous coverage of [a recent study of the regulatory approvals of cancer drugs]...
June 10, 2011 | Townhall
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The Earth is Full of Thomas Friedman’s Hot Air

by Paul R. Gregory (Research Fellow)
It is a shame to have to “relitigate” issues that have been laid to rest. For Thomas Friedman, the message is that it is treacherous for non-economists to write economics...
May 18, 2011 | Forbes.com
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Scolds And Censors — Enough Already!

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
Following the targeted assassination of Osama bin Laden, the scolds, censors and self-styled moral arbiters of public behavior have come out of the woodwork to tell us how we should — or even how we’re “entitled” to — feel about it...
May 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
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A Banner Day for Media Bias: The NYT’s Friday the 13th On Global Warming

by Paul R. Gregory (Research Fellow)
The New York Times outdid itself in media bias on Friday the 13th...
May 11, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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Imprecise Language Breeds Dangerous Policy

by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
Imprecise, emotionally loaded language usually reflects incompetence or politics...
April 28, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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The Unexamined President and His Media Enablers

by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
...[T]he mainstream media are getting wrong the significance of President Obama’s release of his actual birth certificate...
April 26, 2011 | Creators Syndicate
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The Trump Card

by Thomas Sowell (Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy)
The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for President of the United States ought to be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and Republican Party leaders alike...
April 18, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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Right Newspaper, Wrong Pulitzer Story?

by Bill Whalen (Research Fellow)
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Times, for winning a Public Service Pulitzer for its coverage of the salary scandal in Bell, Calif...But, with all due respect to the good folks at Pulitzer Prizes, I wonder if this is a case of right newspaper, wrong story...
March 31, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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The Mission is Creeping

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)
Reuters and the New York Times have both discovered that even though the President claims his administration is still debating the issue, weeks ago he signed a classified intelligence finding authorizing arming the Libyan rebels...
March 31, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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One Trump, One Bid?

by Bill Whalen (Research Fellow)
If Donald Trump is serious about the presidency, there’s a simple way to prove it: invest $50 million of his personal fortune in a real nuts-and-bolts campaign, as opposed to this current for-media-consumption fabrication...