Watch as Stamford, CT Mayor Dan Malloy just rips Fox News host Steve Doocy a well-deserved new one.

The (mainstream) media’s coverage of the budget and stimulus debate has been lacking in, shall we say, a basic understanding of economics as well as tax, monetary and fiscal policies. There’s already more than enough examples of teh stupid going around.

from BlogStamford

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Maybe for once the Washington Know It All crowd is wrong on this one. At least Chuck Scarborough is willing to admit as much.

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Not exactly, according to sources quoted by Josh Marshall

this filing goes directly to insanely bad business decisions, not the secular decline in newspapers. The amazing thing that is happening right now is that all of the company’s assets are in the black. All of them. Every television station and newspaper is making money. Now lets not kid ourselves — many are in a fast downhill spiral, revenues are declining, etc. But what has killed this company is the insane amount of debt Zell has placed upon it.

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Meme Number Two – The Big Three are dying beasts who couldn’t build a car if it fell on them.

Not so according to the Detroit Free Press

The debate over aid to the Detroit-based automakers is awash with half-truths and misrepresentations that are endlessly repeated by everyone from members of Congress to journalists. Here are seven myths about the companies and their vehicles, and the reality in each case.

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The media is working overtime to dumb down the story….

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Go Big Blue!

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It’s about fairness, stupid.

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Perhaps it’s not time to assign fault while active rescue operations are underway. But once that’s over, maybe it would be worth the networks taking a tenth of the time they use milking ratings from these mine sagas and cast a little light on how a lot of this is preventable if the mine owners would stop breaking the rules and the federal government stopped looking the other way.

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What happens when formerly objective reporters feel obligated to cover only the companies that advertise with the Globe?  Will smaller, innovative but less deep-pocketed companies now be completely ignored?  How does PR compete for a reporter’s attention when the issues on the table are to get your client coverage vs. the reporter’s need to generate his or her salary?

Full story here. PAN’s comments here. Keep an eye on this one.

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Why don’t we see these sort of stories in the US?

Oh wait, another white woman went missing in Aruba..!!! Sorry.

Yeah, what was I thinking?

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So it is with great pleasure that I present DNC Chair Howard Dean, ripping CNN’s Wolf Blitzer a new one.

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