> USA Today Joins CNN, ABC in Inflating Gas Prices on Websites
> By Ken Shepherd | May 13, 2008 - 11:19 ET
>
> ABCNews.com did it last week, CNN.com in April. Today, it's USAToday.com's
> turn.
>
> "Average gas prices set record at $3.72 a gallon" reads the teaser headline
> on the USAToday.com Web site. Yet the photo (by Justin Sullivan, Getty
> Images) accompanying the teaser on the front page shows a gas marquee with
> gasoline at $4.09-a-gallon.
>
> That's a media markup of 9.9 percent.
>
> --
> "I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I
> would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working
> for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group.
> And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
> April 11 2007 B.Hussein Obama