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A new blog is keeping an eye on the biased stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that continue to pour out of one of the world’s main sources of news: Reuters Middle East Watch.
Bill Sammon makes an excellent point about the blatant double standard of US media: Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest. As we’ve documented for years at LGF, the media did indeed cover up and obfuscate the true extent of the extremism at many left wing demonstrations. Sammon ...
Media Bias, George W. Bush, Demonstrations, Protests, Cindy Sheehan, International ANSWER, Town Hall
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 ...
“I saw God before me.” President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters touched lives in simple ways during a private stay in the French capital that closed out a six-day presidential tour rich in history, symbolism and giant messages to the world. ... When dining out Saturday ...
Every year, when the Palestinian whinefest known as “Nakba” rolls around, the wire services dutifully publish photo after photo of Palestinians holding keys, “symbolizing” the loss of their houses in 1948 when the state of Israel was established. But this year we have the most ridiculous example yet — an ...
Palestinians, Nakba, Propaganda, Fauxtography, staging, Associated Press, Media Bias
Layers upon layers of sophisticated fact-checking, foiled again: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote. PDT DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy ...
US journalist Roxana Saberi has been freed by Iran after being sentenced to 8 years in prison on trumped-up espionage charges after a 15-minute “trial:” US journalist freed by Iran, reunited with parents. Associated Press writer Ali Akbar Dareini seems to believe this ridiculous charade will help Barack Obama achieve ...
“At the White House, as we all like to say, we love MSNBC.” Can you blame them?
Media, Journalism, Media Bias, MSNBC, Kareem Dale, Barack Obama
The Funny thing about Obama ... is that there’s nothing funny about Obama. On his HBO show, “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the comedian routinely makes vicious fun of celebrities, politicians, presidents and even God. But he’s learned that, for much of his audience, Barack Obama is off limits. ...
The honeymoon of Barack Obama and the Associated Press is definitely over: FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape. WASHINGTON – “That wasn’t me,” President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One. It ...
Two good posts on the absolutely disgraceful mainstream media reporting about Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and the “war crimes” that never happened: Soccer Dad: Now he tells us. CAMERA Snapshots: NY Times Backpedals on Gaza Atrocities Story.
Melanie Phillips pulls back the curtain on The Real Lobby And Its Acolytes.
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias, Arab Lobby
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
The mainstream media unanimously gave credence to reports of IDF atrocities in Gaza, and now these reports have been shown to be completely false. Will they publish corrections? (A rhetorical question.) CAMERA: Charges of IDF ‘Wanton Killing’ Crumble.
This is really bad. When both the New York Times and the Washington Post publish a cartoon that belongs in a Nazi-era tabloid, we’ve crossed the line into very dangerous territory. These newspapers should publish an apology for this absolutely outrageous cartoon. But I know they won’t.
Antisemitism, Media Bias, Jew Hatred, Oliphant, Washington Post, New York Times
It’s as predictable as an atomic clock. Every time Israel strikes back against terrorists after months or years of attacks, the international media screams “War Crimes!” Equally predictable: many of the accusations turn out to be false.
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
At City Journal, Paul Beston has a piece on the history of the now-lifted ban on media coverage of slain soldiers’ coffins: The Media’s Coffin Politics. In force since the outset of the Gulf War in 1991, the ban was triggered by an incident in the aftermath of the ...
You may have seen reports on a study from Indiana University concluding that the mainstream media is biased—in favor of the Republican Party. (Yes, really.) But according to Copious Dissent, there are severe problems in the study’s methodology: Analysis of the Indiana University Study on Republican Media Bias. Overall, ...
Media, Journalism, Media Bias, Indiana University, Fairness Doctrine
Here I am via webcam at PJTV with Joe Hicks, discussing the recent rash of Chapter 11 filings by mainstream newspaper owners: Media 1.0 Deathwatch - Video.
New York Times columnist David Brooks wakes up, looks around, and says, “Hey, what happened?” Op-Ed Columnist - A Moderate Manifesto - NYTimes.com. Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we ...
The great right-wing Rick Santelli conspiracy that wasn’t: Anatomy of a Left-Wing Smear: The Great Tea Party Conspiracy Busted.
Tea Party, Rick Santelli, Right Wing, Left Wing, Smear, Media Bias
This seems to be more and more common: wire service reports on speeches and events that haven’t happened yet. AP Democratic shill Jennifer Loven has filed one of the more egregious examples, lavishing praise on Barack Obama before he’s even said a word: Obama aims for sober honesty, optimism in ...
Associated Press, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Speech, Jennifer Loven