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Here’s a really good post at The Island of Doubt about a talking point that’s suddenly everywhere in the denial-o-sphere: What is this ‘settled science’ of which you speak? In the past couple of days a pernicious little meme has appeared in two leading North American newspapers. I refer ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Jonathan Leake, Media Malfeasance
And again, Fox News shows old footage of Sarah Palin from the presidential campaign to give the impression that she’s drawing huge crowds on her book tour. [Video] The Swamp reports that heads may roll at Fox over this embarrassing incident.
It’s not the most gracious apology I’ve ever seen, but Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right, and says he’s sorry for using footage of large crowds from the September 12th tea party in his coverage of Michele Bachmann’s protest last week. Hannity says it was “inadvertent,” but it’s a ...
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
Jon Stewart catches Fox News and Sean Hannity red-handed in their coverage of Michele Bachmann’s “house call” rally, slipping in footage from the September 12th tea party in Washington DC to make Bachmann’s rally look bigger: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage. [Video]
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd very obviously plagiarized Josh Marshall, in yet another editorial bashing the Bush administration: NY Times’ Maureen Dowd Plagiarizes TPM’s Josh Marshall. Increasingly, this is what the New York Times — and Fox News — does: appropriate the work of bloggers and claim it as ...
Michael Malone, the ABC columnist who blew the whistle on the astoundingly open and disturbing bias of the media in this last election, has a good piece on what happened after his article was featured at LGF: My Own Personal Media Bubble.
After an unbelievable barrage of smear articles from the mainstream media, tonight an independent investigation by Alaska’s State Personnel Board has cleared Sarah Palin of wrongdoing in the media-dubbed “Troopergate” case. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin did not violate state ethics rules as governor when she fired her ...
Election 2008, Sarah Palin, Media Bias, Troopergate, Media Malfeasance
Seattle “alternative” (alternative to what?) newspaper The Stranger is publishing the addresses of homes displaying Republican campaign signs, with the charming title: Hell Houses. (Hat tip: wccawa.)
As we reported Friday, shortly after the third presidential debate Ohio government computers were used to look up personal information on “Joe the Plumber.” Today, one of the people involved in checking the state child support system to try to dig up some dirt has been outed: Inspector general investigating ...
Election 2008, Joe the Plumber, Privacy Invasion, Media Malfeasance
Politico reporters Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris examine the claim that the media are overwhelmingly biased against the McCain campaign, conclude that it’s true, and then sum up their response in two words: “So what?” Why McCain is getting hosed in the press. OK, let’s just get this ...
Media Bias, Media Malfeasance, Arrogance, John McCain, Politics
Last month we had a post about ABC News and their completely phony story about “Islamophobia” in Texas, in which they planted an actor wearing Islamic clothes and an actor playing a bigot, had the phony “bigot” say scripted abusive lines to the phony “Muslim,” then filmed the reactions of ...
LGF, Netherlands, Islam, Dhimmitude, Media Bias, Islamophobia, Media Malfeasance