Obama’s popularity appears to be waning : Opinion : The Buffalo News

...edgy Democratic members of Congress will weigh whether their roll-call votes on Obama’s controversial health insurance revision bill, and his unpopular cap-and-trade energy bill, will endanger their own chances for re-election.

Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists

So why not require journalists to fully disclose their ties, especially in the political arena?

Thus, here is my proposal, which I offer in earnest: All reporters should be required to suffix a ‘D’ or ‘R’ after their names depending on which president they last voted for (or an ‘N’ in the rare case of no vote). So, next time Charlie Gibson (were he to unretire) interviews a vice-presidential candidate, the screen would show “Charlie Gibson (D)”. At the start of the CBS news, a graphic would announce, “News read by Katie Couric (D)”. And when Sean Hannity is quoted in the Times, we’d see an ‘R’. That goes for the Times writers themselves, of course: the byline provides plenty of space for their Ds.