CNN reporter Lateef Mungin leads off a July 22 piece entitled “Arizona Immigration Law Faces Federal Challenge Thursday,” by writing:

The Obama administration’s challenge to the controversial Arizona immigration law goes before a federal judge Thursday.

That seems straight enough. But is it really fair that the media constantly characterizes the immigration law as “controversial”?

A poll conducted by Quinnipac last week found that 50 percent of Americans back Arizona’s law compared to 30 percent who opposed it. Other polls have found even higher levels of support for Arizona’s efforts. The Quinnipac poll also found that, by … Continue Reading

A short report on CNN’s Political Ticker is interesting for what it doesn’t mention in the story as well as its admittedly misleading trumpeted headline that Obama got “double-digit post-speech jump” after his Sept, 9 health care speech to a joint session of Congress.

First the headline: “CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan.”

Reading that headline would lead someone to believe, well, that there was a double-digit jump in Obama’s numbers. After all, that’s what is says. But at the tale of the story the CNN piece the last paragraph admits that these numbers are heavily skewed to … Continue Reading

Under the header Obama: Job figures sobering, but show recession is slowing CNN’s Chris Isidore and Paul Steinhauser posted an item July 2nd reporting: “Obama has said recovery will take time, predicting the unemployment rate will climb above 10 percent before reversing.” But CNN fails to tell its readers that that “prediction” was made by Obama just this June, which is a bit like predicting the winner of the World Series just before the last strike is called.

In January, when the President was pushing his “stimulus” plan, his Administration was predicting that—if Congress embraced his policies—unemployment would top … Continue Reading