var _NTW_file_metadata = {"listing_topic":"Media and Politics","timespan":"","listing_type":"Most Recent Stories","listing_url":"http://www.newstrust.net/topics/media_politics/most_recent/news","sources_type":"","source_name":"","hdr_story_type":"News","min_reviews":3,"title_prefix":"","local_site":null,"site_base_url":"http://www.newstrust.net/"}
var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"2","title":"John Boehner says Bush tax cuts created 8 million jobs over 10 years","url":"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/11/john-boehner/john-boehner-says-bush-tax-cuts-created-8-million-/","date":"2012/02/20","id":8573704,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"During an interview on NBC\u2019s Today show, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, offered some job-creation statistics to cast a favorable light on the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003.\n\nHost Matt Lauer said to Boehner, \"You talk about creating jobs. When the Bush era tax cuts were passed in 2001, unemployment in this country was 4.5 percent. Today it's at 9 percent, just down from 10 percent. So why are the Bush era tax cuts creating jobs?\"\n\nBoehner responded that the tax cuts \"created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession.\"","authors":"Louis Jacobson","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"PolitiFact","framebuster":false,"id":"politifact","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"3","title":"10 Repulsive Fox News Employees Who Should Be Fired","url":"http://www.alternet.org/story/154159/10_repulsive_fox_news_employees_who_should_be_fired","date":"2012/02/16","id":8567700,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"This past week presented a revealing lesson in contrast as to how different media enterprises deal differently with anchors and other editorial personnel who fail the test of principles that ought to govern all journalists.","authors":"Mark Howard","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"2","title":"What\u2019s the \u2018Real\u2019 Jobless Rate?","url":"http://factcheck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-jobless-rate/","date":"2012/02/11","id":8573705,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"As the Obama administration basked in the news that the unemployment rate in January dipped to a three-year low of 8.3 percent, Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich threw a wet blanket on the announcement. Romney said the \u201creal unemployment rate\u201d was actually 15 percent, and Gingrich said that when you include people who have simply given up on trying to find a job, the rate \u201cjumps up to about 12 percent.\u201d\r\n\r\nIs the unemployment rate not the real unemployment rate?\r\n\r\nNeither Romney nor Gingrich put things quite right. But they are referring to legitimate yardsticks of \u201calternative measures of labor underutilization\u201d put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.","authors":"Robert Farley, Dave Bloom","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.5","num_reviews":"4","title":"Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America","url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/survey-paints-portrait-of-black-women-in-america/2011/12/22/gIQAvxFcJQ_story.html?referrer=newstrust","date":"2012/02/09","id":8556082,"story_type":"News","quote":"","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Washington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"washington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"2","title":"STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline","url":"http://mediamatters.org/research/201201260005","date":"2012/01/26","id":8535274,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents.\u00a0 Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue.","authors":"Jfk, Jnf","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Media Matters","framebuster":false,"id":"media_matters","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.6","num_reviews":"2","title":"New Report Shows Big-Money Politics and Broadcast Media Are Undermining Democracy","url":"http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2012/1/26/new-report-shows-big-money-politics-and-broadcast-media-are-undermining-demo","date":"2012/01/26","id":8545135,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"On Thursday, Free Press released Citizens Inundated, a report that follows the money trail from big-spending political donors to the bank accounts of the nation's largest broadcast companies.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"FreePress.net","framebuster":false,"id":"freepress_net","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"11","title":"The State of Obama\u2019s Facts","url":"http://factcheck.org/2012/01/the-state-of-obamas-facts/","date":"2012/01/25","id":8530937,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"The president\u2019s State of the Union address got the facts right \u2014 mostly.\r\n\r\nObama said \u201cthe Taliban\u2019s momentum has been broken\u201d in Afghanistan. But targeted assassinations continue, and at least one independent foreign policy expert says the enemy may just be waiting until the U.S. leaves.\r\nThe president said a get-tough tariff on tire imports from China has saved more than 1,000 U.S. jobs. But tire industry officials say Chinese imports have simply been replaced by imports from other countries.\r\nHe took credit for putting \u201cmore boots on the border than ever before.\u201d That\u2019s true, but the big increase was under George W. Bush. And a decrease in illegal border crossings is due mainly to the lack of jobs in the U.S., experts say.\r\nOften the president\u2019s facts and figures were accurate \u2014 but not the whole story. It\u2019s true (barely) that Bush issued more new regulations than Obama at the same point in their presidencies \u2014 but Obama didn\u2019t mention that his cost more. The president pointed proudly to increased oil drilling, increased U.S. oil production, and declining dependence on imports. But understandably he passed over any mention of chronically high gasoline prices, which hit a record of sorts last year. And he boasted of recent increases in jobs \u2014 which still number nearly 1.7 million fewer than when he took office.","authors":"Brooks Jackson, D\u2019Angelo Gore, Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Ben Finley, Lori Robertson","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"2","title":"GOP Debates Let Loose The Roar Of The Crowd","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/gop-debates-2012-audiences-cheers-boos_n_1211827.html","date":"2012/01/20","id":8522870,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Candidates' attacks, gaffes and memory lapses have dominated coverage of the 21 Republican debates so far, but reporters are covering the wrong people. The real story isn't on the stage; it's in the audience.","authors":"Howard Fineman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"2","title":"Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html","date":"2012/01/18","id":8519925,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.","authors":"Jonathan Weisman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"2","title":"Wikipedia, Reddit To Shut Down Sites Wednesday To Protest Proposed Stop Online Piracy Act","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/17/wikipedia_reddit_to_shut_down_sites","date":"2012/01/17","id":8519112,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and sixth most visited site in the world, will join websites like the content aggregator Reddit to \"go dark\" on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), which are currently being debated in Congress. \"What these bills propose are new powers for the government and also for private actors to create, effectively, blacklists of sites that allegedly are engaging in some form of online infringement and then force service providers to block access to those sites,\" says Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. \"What we would have is a situation where the government and private actors could censor the net.\"","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}}]