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Oh brother. The Washington Post was apparently planning to sell access to top Obama officials and other VIPs, at a price of $25,000 to $250,000 a pop, in a “salon program” at the private home of CEO Katharine Weymouth. The Washington Post has long prided itself on its access ...
Last year, CNN-San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. said that if you didn’t want to vote for Barack Obama, and you’re white, you’re a racist. Today Navarette complains that Obama is flunking economics, and that many Americans “won’t tolerate any criticism of the president.” And these people wonder why ...
Mickey Kaus has posted a leaked series of emails from that (no longer) secret mailing list for journalists and left-wing bloggers, and it’s every bit as bad as you might have imagined; this exchange is titled: “BREAKING: Marty Peretz is a Crazy-Ass Racist.” These are the captains of media, throwing ...
Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Blogosphere, JournoList, MSM, Left Wing
Politico’s Michael Calderone has an article about a secretive discussion list on which mainstream journalists, selected left-wing bloggers, and academics figure out talking points and coordinate strategies: JournoList: Inside the echo chamber. For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics ...
Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Blogosphere, JournoList, MSM, Left Wing
For their non-stop, unseemly, worshipful, overwhelmingly biased coverage in favor of Barack Obama, the readers of LGF have chosen the winner of the 2008 Idiotarian Award: our self-appointed guardian of information, the Mainstream Media and its mask of phony impartiality. Special thanks to John Cox and Allen Forkum for ...
Idiotarian of the Year, Idiotarian Award, Fiskie, fiskie 2008, Mainstream Media
Yes, the votes are in, more than 26,000 of them, and we have a clear winner. You might even call it a landslide, with 39.2% of the vote. For their leg-tingling coverage of the Obama campaign, and other misbehaviors too numerous to mention, the 2008 Idiotarian Award will go to ...
Idiotarian of the Year, Idiotarian Award, Fiskie, fiskie 2008, Mainstream Media
A classic mainstream media moment, brought to you by UPI: Boy’s death on video is a fake, blog says - UPI.com. But IsraelINN.com said Charles Johnson’s U.S. blog Little Green Fields uncovered several alleged discrepancies... Layers upon layers of fact-checking!
Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Blogosphere, Palestinians, Israel, Propaganda
In his latest piece, ABC News columnist Michael Malone absolutely skewers the mainstream media for debasing and corrupting a once-honorable profession: Editing Their Way to Oblivion: Journalism Sacrificed For Power and Pensions. The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its ...
Orson Scott Card hits the mark: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
Orson Scott Card, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, opinion
The alphabet networks had a little tiff with the McCain campaign today, when the campaign tried to limit their access to Sarah Palin’s meetings with foreign officials: Sarah Palin Meets World Leaders — Reporters Kept Away? There’s a battle going on right now over how the networks will be ...
Mainstream Media, MSM, Media Bias, CNN, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Sarah Palin
This is what happens when advocacy journalism dominates the mainstream media. According to Rasmussen, fully 68% of voters believe that “most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win.” And — no surprise — 49% of those surveyed believe reporters are backing Barack Obama, while just 14% ...
Ed Driscoll has a new video about the mainstream media’s summer fling with Barack Obama, and some of their old flames from elections past: 2004: An MSM Odyssey.
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, driscoll
Another move to shut down services used by bloggers, as the mainstream media tries to hang on to control of their content in the digital age: Redlasso halts blogger service amid lawsuit. NEW YORK (Reuters) - News video-sharing site Redlasso said on Friday it will suspend its video search ...
An absolutely on-target parody of mainstream media, imagining how they might have covered the invasion of Normandy with today’s enhanced technology—and today’s relentless negativity. [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)
Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, the mind behind that ludicrous “blog” piece saying, “Hitler’s demands were not unreasonable,” has been doing a little on-the-sly editing: Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’ | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog. Ramsey got smacked around pretty badly in the comments for his piece, and ...
LGF, Seattle Times, Moonbats, Nazi Germany, WWII, Mainstream Media
If you’ve wondered why so many mainstream media stories about Islamic issues omit important details and draw spurious morally equivalent conclusions, wonder no more. They’re doing it on purpose. This was apparently released by the Society of Professional Journalists shortly after the 9/11 attacks: Guidelines for Countering Racial, Ethnic and ...
LGF, Media Bias, Mainstream Media, Media, Islam, Willful Blindness, Political Correctness
Agence France Presse goes way overboard, lavishing praise on Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and mocking the US, in one of the most disgustingly biased mainstream media articles you’ll ever read: Ahmadinejad pokes Uncle Sam in eye on Iraq visit. BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poked his finger ...
LGF, Media Bias, Mainstream Media, Media, AFP, Iraq, Iran
More Americans turning to Web for news. But of course, we knew that. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. While most people ...
It’s not just the Associated Press labeling Pakistanis burning Danish flags as “human rights activists.” Here are two more especially absurd and egregious examples of MSM malfeasance: At Contentions, Abe Greenwald tracks the mysterious disappearance and subsequent complete rewrite of a Reuters story on Muqtada al-Sadr: Reuters’ Sadr Story Vanishes. ...
Sacred Heart University in Connecticut has conducted a poll on Americans’ opinions about the news media—and the amount of distrust is surprising even to me: Americans Slam News Media on Believability. The era of the media mandarins, handing down unquestioned wisdom from their high-tech towers, is most definitely over. ...
It’s a thoroughly evil trick: you post a comment at a mainstream media site that criticizes them, or goes against their prevailing biases, and the administrator deletes your comment. But they delete it in a sneaky way; when you visit the page and are logged in to your account, you ...
An Iraqi journalist running a web site from Amman, Jordan, is the latest perpetrator of a media hoax eagerly picked by major news services: Gateway Pundit: Another Bogus Iraqi Slaughter Story.
Let’s revisit Bobby Caina Calvin’s blog for a few minutes, because even though he’s now pulled the entire thing offline, what it revealed about mainstream media reporting from Iraq is actually quite important. LGF reader “Last Mohican” commented on a post by Calvan, on a story he filed about a ...
An almost unbelievable example of media arrogance, as a reporter for the Sacramento Bee complains about an ID check at the Green Zone, belittles the soldier for not knowing who “Knight Ridder” is, then brags about his bravery at his blog: Simply Simpatico | The GALLIVANT. Since the little weasel ...
On Howard Kurtz’s CNN show today, journalists from the Washington Post and CNN explained Why Good News from Iraq Shouldn’t Get Reported. Yes, really. UPDATE at 10/7/07 12:40:55 pm: Allahpundit’s got video: Increasing casualties = news, decreasing casualties = not news.