Reuters is so cute: California students protest fees SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (Reuters) - University of California students take to...
It wasn't too long ago that Bill Sparkman's body was found, and even "mainstream" news sources did everything but say,...
More than five years after the 2004 election, I still stumble across people in "the reality-based community" saying that "Bush...
Charlie Gibson on ABC: GIBSON: But, Jake, we talked to several health care experts today, and they all said if...
Although this Yahoo! article is ostensibly about Wikipedia's reliability -- or lack thereof -- the more important implication is really...
A couple nights ago, I was changing the TV channels, and happened to see CSPAN: the text at the bottom...
I've got nothing against any emotion. I'm personally not allowed to hate my neighbor but that doesn't mean I can't...
In which I can't help noticing the lexigraphical similarity between "Monbiot" and "Moonbat"... If you're like most Americans, you've probably...
"Sleazy" - The New York Times "Bizarre and hysterical." - The Village Voice "Startlingly one-sided" - USA Today "An affront...
At least that what they're being told in the UK complete with pictures of desperate-looking people standing in line. So...
I'm listening to Dennis Prager interviewing Peter Beinart of The New Republic. Prager asks Beinart who's he's backing, and Beinart...
As a conservative, it's somewhat amusing, and a pleasant change, to watch Hillary and Obama and their respective media apparatus...
Peter Barry Chowka: As of July 10th, there were 5,726 news articles in response to the keyword "sicko" linked from...
The "disaffected Republican" is one of the standard set-pieces of the modern mainstream media: one tends to only hear from...
As usual, the papers are filled with varying degrees of clueless commentary -- from "somewhat" to "amazingly". Why has there...
A close friend of mine (a lifelong Democrat) sent me a link to this story in the Chicago Tribune, about...
So the New York Times has noticed there are polygamous immigrants in NYC: She worked at the Red Lobster in...
Mistakes like this are why newspapers like the New York Times have become a joke, not a serious source of...
Hitchens, writing about the first Gulf War: I vividly remember saying to the late Peter Jennings, as we journeyed toward...
I do wish the newly-elected Democrats well: I'm not filled with animosity or anything of the sort. They are our...
A quote, from somewhere in Newsweek (I couldn't find the original) via GetReligion: But there is clearly discomfort with the...
David Warren: The BBC appears to have been quickest off the mark, to send around the world in many languages,...
Via the Instapundit (muchas gracias!), a contrarian article about wages and productivity -- and the current reporting thereof. Well worth...
From today's print version of USA Today: NAACP urges Bush to address convention NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who has condemned...
Hey! God's now got a PG Rating. How long before he moves into "R" or "XXX" territory?...
The other day, I was listening to reports that terrorists had killed dozens in Nigeria. Only problem was that they...
Over the past several days, I have heard a seemingly endless stream of news reports which all, without exception, talk...
Does the BBC (and UN, for that matter) ever stop shilling for terrorists? The United Nations has made an unprecedented...
Last night, the top political story in the news should have been that a Democratic Congressman was caught accepting bribes...
When Rush Limbaugh first appeared (to my vantage point) in the early 1990s, I listened in a few times. My...
... meet with a similar number of Jew-Loving Arabs. And do you think this was newsworthy enough for us in...
No doubt you're all aware of the new set of Abu Ghraib photos being given widespread coverage. The Abu Ghraib...
Well, whaddya know? NPR has a right-wing bias. How can we be sure? Because NPR tells us so. (You know,...
Bias? What Bias? Media companies are companies, and must therefore, since they are companies, be "right-wing". So big media conglomerates,...
In their fervor to smear Christians by any means necessary, the BBC doesn't mind throwing the rules of ethical journalism...
Sorry, this was just too amusing to pass up... HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED White...
This kind of language, common in the press lately, shows gross hypocrisy: Madrid was put on high alert following the...
There's been talk about a recent poll which claims to have found it was a mistake to have to gone...
Shades of Rathergate: The eight memos — all labeled “secret” or “confidential” — were first obtained by British reporter Michael...
LaShawn: According to ABC News, PBS is hiring an ombudsman to deal with viewers’ complaints and “review controversial programs.” Conservatives...
It's so frustrating sometimes arguing with the left. One thing is that many of them don't recognize their views as...
... and other equally unusual developments. Glenn writes: GATEWAY PUNDIT reports on the East St. Louis voter fraud trial, with...
Well, at risk of adding to the echo effect, here we go again: Linda Foley, speaking Friday in St. Louis,...
When I listen to the news -- or perhaps just when I listen to really bad or shameless reporting --...
Here's a great example of how the mainstream media regularly deceives its readers in order to lead them to adopt...
The mainstream media have never hesitated to delve into the background and motivations of someone who comes from the 'wrong'...
Rather than use available polls, the
New York Times presents an atypical set of Iraqi opinions to give the impression Iraqis are becoming pessimistic, when in fact, polls show the exact opposite.
If you were under the impression that starvation might be unpleasant or painful, you really should get your facts straight....
The BBC reports a new studies proves that homosexuality is a genetic trait residing in a combination of genes! Or does it?
The Obsidian Order presents fascinating photographic evidence, collected from several different news sources, that photojournalists from API, Reuters, etc. work...
Sometimes, you just stumble across a gem that unintentionally speaks volumes about it's author. Today's example comes from Paul Krugman:...
Among others, Michael Crichton has postulated that environmentalism is a proxy religion for secular humanists who reject the JudeoChristian metaphysic....
Mona Charen: The [New York] Times does not tell readers that the United States is the world's largest food aid...
What is "constructive criticsm"? Constructive criticism is that which is aimed at improving things, not destroying them. There are three...
Rumsfeld blows off important questions from the troops. Or does he? The media spins the story, and some parts of the blogosphere fall for it.
During the mid-90s, I watched the film Barcelona with a friend. Loved it. The film was set even earlier --...
A week's gone by, the election's over, and the spin and kiss-up continues still. May I direct your attention to...
Good heavens, CNN is dishonest. They pulled their original, candid report on what the NBC reporter said about his first...
MRC sums up what I've been saying, offine for a long time: Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When...
A reader posts a link to a very interesting article on the media, guns, and crime; an article good enough to pass along to the rest of you...
Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us? Linda Heard demonstrates precisely why they hate us. Clip and save this for the next time a left-leaning friend of yours brings up the topic.
I had
thought that the evidentiary standard for smears was that they were to be assumed false until proven true beyond a reasonable doubt. Guess there's a double standard in play here, no?
The AP newswire can change a lot of people's minds at once. But lately, it seems they've been making a lot of "mistakes", and curiously, they all seem to benefit one candidate's campaign.
The "party of peace" is out in force again, with one unifying theme: Hatred. I'm loving the protest coverage. Shall...
Apparently Snopes.com is not interested in being credible. I've noticed they were extremely quick to "debunk" any popular "urban legends" which leaned left, but appear uninterested in doing the same for slams against conservatives...
Venting after seeing probably the most dispicable media hit-job I can recall in recent memory...
Kerry's campaign spokesgal admits they expect the media to do their dirty work for them. (Apparently, there's just one major fly in that ointment.) An interesting admission, as is her charge that SwiftVets are a Bush "front"...
The times corrects one of its articles about failing charter schools. Or does it? You be the judge.
For those that are still with me, I don't think you be shocked to learn any of the following, but...
I'm told Fox News is supposed to biased towards the right. Perhaps that's true with some of their editorialists, but...
NPR tells me one part of the story -- but not another, which would provoke a different reaction if I knew it. How unusual!
CNN "covers" Rumseld, a memo, and "waterboard". Only, it doesn't really "cover" the debate at all... No, wait! Turns out the
entire story is untrue.
Power Line: We have nothing useful to say about the murder of Paul Johnson. One small point, maybe: it pisses...
The "obesity epidemic" is spreading, unchecked. And the press, and an expansion of federal governmental powers, is necessary to save the day... or maybe not!
I've been going through my old books lately, and as a result, have in front of me America: What Went...
Powerline points us to a piece Dinesh D'Souza which demonstrates the extent to which which Reagan critics are going to revise history, as well as N.E. Blogger, who shows us how Brokaw's people suppressed some of Bush's more vital statements before broadcasting the interview.
TIME magazine and ABC news slant their coverage of the fast food debate they're creating, and Radly Balko gets involved. But what do food-control advocates really want? I offer a few thoughts on the debate...
What if the sky wasn't falling? What if the world were actually becoming a
better place? What if what was needed were
not radical changes, but rather doing
more of precisely what we've been doing?
Not content to simply report the news, CNN blocks information with their spin. Abuses in Abu Ghraib are
so important that we mustn't be told the facts, only CNN's opinions.
Jordan intercepted three tanker trucks filled with twenty tons of chemical weapons sent in from Syria. The trucks were apprehended...
Recently, a reader responding to an article I'd posted about a recent Peter Jennings documentary, remarked "I have always believed...
The UN assured us that the Oil for Food program was subject to rigorous oversight, but we're learning that Saddam used money meant to feed Iraqis for his own purposes. Among other places, the trail leads to the UN, but what happened here in the US?
Slate publishes a hilarious but scary interview with Oliver Stone. Kudos to Ann Louise Baradach for getting her facts straight...
What changed the press coverage of Howard Dean? Who wants to dominate AM talk radio now? A
New York Times article profiling Al Franken provides a fascinating peek at how the message you hear is being crafted behind the scenes.
Good heavens, Random Observations seems to have become a "media bias" blog lately. I swear, it's not because I'm trying....
Frontline apparently pulls a few punches in order to make the New Testament look bad. Sadly, though, they're below the belt, and they're refuting their own words, not those in the bible.
Yet another fake story in the press (Bush Buries Secret Global Warming Report) triggers my ire, and I rant intemperately about the state of things as they are. Of course, I'm not shocked: This is precisely what my worldview predicts. Still, it's appalling to watch.
Matt Groening admits the satirical is political, and gives us a bit of insight into how his political views color
The Simpsons.
ABC News tells us what we already know, and threatens the Bush administration with a shocking gloves-off display of threats to bias his coverage.
Entertainment Weekly says Mel Gibson is attacking the media, but (apparently) omits any mention of recent media attacks on Mel. Fox News's entertainment correspondant Lisa Bernhart says this is justified, apparently, because Mel Gibson has faith.
The whole thing started innocently enough. "Dr. Dot" was just trying to get her jacket and leave. Little did she know she'd end up with a fat lip and a false story in a German newspaper...
The BBC and a Labor MP offer ask listeners for a new law, offering to put it before Parliament. The project is quickly cancelled when the BBC learns what's
really on it's listeners mind...
British pilots' union and airline officials think air marshals are going to be dangerous. The record says otherwise.
For a moment, I thought NPR might be giving equal time to conservatives and liberals. Silly me.
PBS Kid's motto reveals exactly what is wrong with their approach to educating (err, indoctrinating) our children.
Jill Stewart comments on the L.A. Time's bias: They sent two teams to investigate old charges Ahnold had groped women,...
Liberals explain their need to completely dominate the one remaining format that isn't nearly or completely biased their way...
Wow... I just witnessed the tail end of a nauseatingly fawning interview of "Princeston Economist Extrodinaire" (real quote, I'm not...
I used to love MASH. Hawkeye was, in certain regards, a person who I looked up to... But recently, I had a thought which made MASH a whole lot less enjoyable.
I mentioned in my last post that Charity Navigator rated my local PBS outlet as a one star (of four)...
The BBC is, as usual, too cute to be true. Their front page offers a link "In pictures: Blackout chaos"....
A reader takes me to task for calling a CNN poll "idiotic"...
Deb and Vinny discuss an internal LA Times memo which documents the paper's biases; Maureen Dowd is under fire for putting her own altered quote into the president's mouth and then criticizing him for it; and the Weekly Standard discusses revelations that Al-Jazira (and other Mulsim news outlets) were on the dole from Saddam; and AIM covers Scott Ritter and French media delusions.
Is the goal of a color-blind society dead on arrival? Why do some support affirmative action while others oppose it? Are all affirmative action critics racist? And what makes for legitimate criticism in of your opponents in this public debate?
NewsMax reports: In a bombshell finding virtually ignored by the American media, a U.S. district court judge in Manhattan ruled...
C-SPAN embodies a lot of what I would expect from a government-funded network. But there's a catch...
Reporter Peter Collins alleges: [Peter Jennings] took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas...
Did Bush know there was no WMD all along? Apparently, some argue he did, citing a report from ABC News. But just how reliable is the source?
Of course, we're not the only ones who think our reporters are biased. Arabs do too -- but in a completely different way. Tim takes a bit of time to "deconstruct" an Arab News op-ed regarding Western journalistic bias. Pot and kettle time, boys and girls.
From CNN: For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and...
I keep hearing what appears to be inaccurate spin on the mosque story, and just wanted to throw in my two cents for any readers who are hearing the redacted version...
NewsMax reports: Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger revealed late Wednesday that the New York Times recently asked him to...
Glenn Reynolds thinks embedding has been 'a disaster' for the media since it will cause reporters to bond with the...
Who would have believed it? The BBC's coverage of the war has come under fire from one of its own...
I'm watching CNN. They're going over poll results which show, they allege, a "credibility gap" for the Bush administration. The...
I'm watching BBC coverage of the war. Fifteen minutes in, and I've seen the sane 4-5 minutes of Iraqi-sanctioned footage...
Today the BBC and NPR has a join call-in show from "all the world". Message: All the world is against...
Tonight I saw about half of the A&E documentary about suicide bombers in Israel, and their potential threat to the...
I try to read broadly, to hear what each political coterie has to say on a given topic. But while...
I was reading left-leaning blog Counterspin Central when I came across a reference to an article which indicated that a...
Conservatives are fond of saying the theoretically-unbiased media are actually biased leftwards. Liberals often respond with the opposite charge. Here's...
I'd noticed a lot of what I felt were biased reports from the BBC. Apparently, I'm not alone: the folks...
Tonight I was reading "Israel's Dangerous Crossroads" in The Nation magazine when I came across this tidbit on Sharon's ability...
BBC News reports on a tablet found beneath the temple mount mosque. The BBC shows its bias and/or complete cluelessness...
BBC News reports on a tablet found beneath the temple mount mosque. The BBC shows its bias and/or complete cluelessness...
A lead story in BBC News trumpets "UK 'rejects' lone action against Iraq": A closer reading of the story reveals...