“British regional newspaper group Johnston Press axed its final 2008 dividend on Wednesday after saying its advertising revenues in 2009 to date were down 36 per cent,” Reuters reports. “The group, which has been especially hard hit by its high exposure to local classified advertis...

  A hardline Hindu organization is launching a soda in India that they predict will sell like hotcakes, better than Coke or Pepsi. That's a tall enough order in itself, but it's even more laughable when you learn what bodily excretion the beverage contains.  Each bottle will contai...

Who will cover this gaffe? In a story headlined "Tongue-Tied Clinton Gets Warm E.U. Welcome," Reuters reported that Hillary Clinton mispronounced several names and claimed American democracy’s been "around a lot longer than European democracy." Reporter David Brunnstrom tried t...

Market analysts were puzzledwhen Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) paid $650 million for Newsday last May. Almost one year later $400 million of write-down, it was obviously a bad move, but Cablevision's latest decision makes their initial purchase look like Seward's deal for Alaska. Cablevision just announce...

The sun shines brightly as I stroll along the curving pier above the water, looking out toward a beautiful island with trees swaying in the wind. There's a looming ampitheater festooned with signs for Thompson Reuters, and a series of concrete buildings that appear ready to hold important meetings. ...

And by "Israeli brinkmanship" they explicitly mean "Israel's refusal to give Hamas everything they want": Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is mounting a last-ditch effort to free a captured Israeli soldier by blocking an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until Hamas agrees to ...

Have you ever wondered how the geniuses who report business news know why the stock market opens or closes up or down on any given day -- especially when they venture into political explanations? I received this e-mail from CNN just after the markets opened: Gosh, those e-mail drafters at CNN are sm...

Filed under: Newspapers, How To, Health & Medical, Food News This past weekend, Reuters reported the death of an elder woman in Minnesota due to Salmonella infection. She is the seventh person in the U.S. to die from this bacteria. As of last Wednesday, 491 people have been infected during the c...

Barack Obama’s inauguration was hardly a triumph of media objectivity, with reporters competing to see who could be the most adoring of the new Messiah-President. As always, the latest edition of MRC’s bi-weekly Notable Quotables newsletter has the most obnoxious liberal media quotes from the la...

On January 22 the Associated Press posted an interesting little tidbit of news about how Team Obama is treating the press. Apparently, the Obama White House is trying to force news agencies to use Obama's own, special, ostensibly "official" photographer's photos taken at Obama press conferences inst...