In a piece that I posted way back in 2008 (“How Did You Get On The Information Superhighway?), I pointed out that many students are not what we could call computer literate. Now it might be that I should have said technologically literate instead of computer literate because our society has evolved from a collection […]
I’m glad there are professional “fact checkers” in the media, even if I don’t always believe they’re as non-partisan as they claim. But sometimes the fact checking is, whether intentionally or not, excessively literal.
For instance, one piece run on Yahoo!:
Phrases like “euthanasia,” “socialized health care” and “rationing” are still being bandied about. (None of […]
It is not a surprise that most political conservatives prefer to watch FOX News; neither is it difficult to believe that most political liberals rate MSNBC as their favorite cable news outlet. Both networks like to present themselves as unbiased. FOX News says that it is fair and balanced, but only political conservatives seem to […]
Scott McKnight at Jesus Creed has waded into the tumultuous waters over President-Elect Obama’s invitation to Rick Warren to give the Invocation at his Inauguration. I was planning to post my own view on the matter tomorrow, but Scot’s perspective closely echoes my own, and he says it much better than I ever could, so […]
Remember this in the next four years: Chris Matthews’ job is to make the Obama presidency a success.
Is this fair warning not to expect journalistic excellence but an enabling of the Obama administration? It looks to me that the media’s treatment of President Obama will be just like its treatment of Senator Obama.
It could be […]
Is the Medis biased?
“The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.”
“The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from […]
I readily confess that I am news and political junkie. I watch the news daily and I always find some time each day to read political commentary (from different perspectives). I even like to venture into the exciting worlds of economic theory and political philosophy. (I know… I live my life on the edge.)
But, for […]
Every four years we are amazed when the presidential campaigns turn ugly, acting as if this is the first time ever in American history, such a thing has happened. It is as if every quadrennium we come down with a case of collective amnesia concerning past presidential races. The news media are especially appalling in […]
One of the things that distresses me greatly is the inability of some political partisans to put their humanity ahead of their politics. What do I mean?
Last weekend, former White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow died after a courageous battle with cancer. The vast majority of people, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, paused in […]
Tim Russert, Washington Bureau Chief for NBC and moderator of Meet the Press, has died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Russert was one of the best in journalism. As a news and politics “junkie,” I truly enjoyed listening to Russert conduct an interview and comment on the politics of the day. He embodied the serious “old school” journalism, […]
Yahoo had this headline on their frontpage today: “Republicans block global warming bill because of costs.”
When you read the actual story, they share the little detail that the vote was 48-36. There are 51 Democrats (and allied independents) in the Senate. The story eventually shares that 4 Democrats also voted against cloture on the bill. But […]
The newly published article in Vanity Fair, written by Todd Purdum, married to a long-time Clinton friend and aide, has drawn a sharp and heated response from the former President and his wife, Senator Clinton. Among other things, the article alleges, through anonymous sources, that Clinton has continued his womanizing ways while on the campaign […]
Apparently, Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, and other left-wing bloggers are upset that the Democrats are now interviewing with reporters from FOX News. Several months ago, Markos, and other secular extremists, shut down a scheduled Democratic candidate debate on FOX that the network was hosting with the Congressional Black Caucus. They basically threatened […]
Every four years, the media plays the same old symphony– the young people will turn out in record numbers to vote for President. We heard it four years ago and four years before that. So, it should not be surprising that, once again, we are hearing of how the young people are fired up and […]
This is interesting. Lazy journalists? Nah, couldn’t be.
By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they’ve all heard the story of the “Jena 6.” White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the […]
“The Congressional Budget Office–not the White House–is estimating that the current year’s deficit (for fiscal 2007) will fall to $172 billion.”
“And for all the international scolding of an allegedly profligate America, U.S. federal debt as a share of GDP is falling again. At 37% in 2006 and heading south, the U.S. figure compares to 52% […]
One of the things I enjoy is listening to and/or watching a good interview. Whether the subject is politics or religion or anything else for that matter, a good interview makes one think and reflect, and it causes one to question and work through one’s own views. I like to watch interviews with people whose […]
Former Senator Fred Thompson will formally announce his candidacy for the office of president on the Jay Leno Show (at least that’s what we are told). He will not participate in tonight’s Republican presidential debate to the consternation of some of the other candidates, and the media that would like to have a different twist […]
Cross-posted at New Covenant
From the Times of London, regarding the President,
That such a man should have been called upon to guide the destinies of a mighty nation during a grand historical crisis is surely strange enough, but that he should have blundered and vacillated as he has, without for a moment losing confidence in himself, […]
Cross-posted at New Covenant.
You can’t make this stuff up!
After leading with the terrible toll of deadly “super-cell” storms with tornadoes which struck Missouri and Alabama on Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s mind turned to global warming as the potential cause. She asked “CBS News weather analyst” Bryan Norcross, working out of the network’s […]
As the MSM ignore the fact that Al Gore’s twenty foot ocean level increases have been pared down to maybe one foot by the 90% certain (yeah, sure) U.N. paper, so they ignore this voice of reason.
Via HotAir, video of Rep. David Wu (D-Oregon) telling Congress, regarding the war in Iraq,
Now, this president has listened to some people - the so-called Vulcans, in the White House - the ideologues. But, you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek, who made their decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it […]
I don’t watch “24″.
I watched a few episodes from the first (or second?) season and found that, while it is very well produced, it was too over the top for me.
However, it does seem to be the rage, these days. And, surprisingly enough, fodder for liberal criticism.
Evidently, in this season’s series opener, a […]
The New York Post sponsored a four day embed by Michelle Malkin and Bryan Preston. Malkin’s first post is here, with an initial video report here. Preston’s report can be found here.
Their reports are decidedly unlike those typically featured on CNN (e.g., Attackers kill 35 in Baghdad, Kirkuk; 30 bodies found).
for an example of Hugh Hewitt’s Ann Coulter-like lack of basic civility. Radio Blogger has a transcript of the Helen Thomas interview (February 2006). I’ve read through it and have not found anything resembling Coulter. As I posted in a comment, here is a transcript of the Andrew Sullivan interview (October 2006) and, again, nothing […]
Nothing whatsoever to do with RedBlue politics, btw…
“That’s when you know that I’m really on my last legs - when I start taking up golf.”
- Laura Ingraham, morning radio show on 12/15/06
(also ref. Mark Twain, “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”)
Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming. When Oprah and Al Gore are the foci of global warming hype, one might want to take a second look at things. This piece illustrates the censorship and one-sidedness of the drive-by media AND of climate academics in the media-elite alliance.
It appears that the Dixie Chicks still haven’t learned that they are not the only ones entitled to freedom of speech. At their MySpace site for their upcoming movie, Shut Up & Sing, we read
The Dixie Chicks were criticized by the American Media and American Public for voicing their opinions. What are your views on […]
Keith Olbermann ranks the combined personalities of Hannity, Bozell, O’Reilly, Ingraham, and Zelnick as the “worst person in the world” for their reaction to recent comments by Ted Turner.
Turner states, with regards to President Bush’ statement, “Either you’re with us, or you’re against us,” that at the time he hadn’t made up his mind. The […]
O’Reilly’s “Talking Points” Memo (10/6) takes on a controversial CBS segment and the reaction. “What say you?” Is CBS insincere as Bill says or is he just blowing smoke?
Recently I was thinking about a problem in our culture that is clearly evident, but yet rarely discussed. This problem manifests itself at some point in all of our lives, and we do everything to avoid the problem because we don’t directly want to address the problem. The problem I’m speaking of is comfortlessness. Comfortlessness […]
President Bush ‘assassinated’ in new TV docudrama,
Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.
…The dramatic scene, which has caused outrage among Americans, has been created by a British film company for a programme about the effect of the War […]
At some award’s ceremonies, for kid’s organized sports, you sometimes see every kid getting a certificate of some sort. This is done, presumably, in the interest of fairness and in the hopes of building self esteem in every child. Never mind that in just about any team, there are some members who excel and some […]
We have a saying at work: Figures never lie, but liars figure.
Altered photos. Staged shots. Disingenuous information. Where’s the truth?
Malkin and Hot Air highlight a terrible job at photoshopping and, potentially, additional evidence of the liberally left leaning lunacy of the MSM (Reuters, specifically). Additional smoke plumes, additional buildings, darker smoke. Sigh. All for “the cause,” […]
The threat of a 2008 boycott by the network biggies is leading to a possible scaling back of national political conventions.
Why the boycott? They’re too scripted. Why are they scripted? Because no good political programer in the 21st Century allows their party to go spontaneous on national television. So if television eventually stops covering the […]
A few days ago Newsweek published an interview with Tim LaHaye asking him to comment on the question “Are we in the end times?” (Dr. Jackson noted this interview over at SmartChristian). CNN recently did a similar story on air with both LaHaye and co-author Jerry Jenkins.
I’m less interested in the interviews themselves than in […]
The battle concerning whether or not a person is “born gay” has heated up once again with some very creative marketing. Regardless of which side you land on, it’s interesting to note that in this latest marketing campaign to see the humor with which both sides defend their relative positions.
An organization calling itself “Born Different” […]
Cal Thomas calls Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, “one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, God Bless America films you will ever see.”
It’s an encouraging word, because I was certain this was going to be an all-out media assault on the current administration and the GOP just in time to make it a […]
