The death toll may top 100 in yesterday's horrific attacks at a Baghdad pet market -- and that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that the bombers weren't deluded and evil young men convinced that slaughtering innocents was their ticket to paradise and 72 willing virgins. Instead, the cowardly terrorists used […]
When the price comes down, I might have to pick this book up: "Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age." From a Q&A with author Jim Kuypers over at CollegiateTimes.com: Q: The book focuses a lot on how President Bush justified the actions of the United States military post Sept. […]
There you go again. The Center for Public Integrity has decided that the time is right to trot out the lie that the Bush administration purposefully, and with malice aforethought, "orchestrated [a] campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq." The report on the Bush adminstration's "orchestrated deception on the path to […]
The Sunday Telegraph of London wasn't blinded by the politics of its newsroom, like Time magazine was, and has wisely named Gen. David Petraeus as its "Man of the Year." He has been the man behind the US troop surge over the past 10 months, the last-ditch effort to end Iraq's escalating civil war by […]
The Drudge Report yesterday briefly posted a transcript of a conversation between fabulist Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp and editors at The New Republic [Transcript: Pt. 1, Pt. 2 -- PDF format] along with documents from the Army's official investigation. [PDF format] Drudge ended up pulling it down, but not before the information was out, and […]
The Columbia Journalism Review got around to noticing that last week's New York Times report on the comments of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez vis a vis the media failed to make it into reporter David S. Cloud's piece. Cloud’s remarks left me with two questions. First, why didn’t he include any mention in his […]
"They" is The New York Times. On their online "Op-Ed" page, the Times has posted a nearly 7 minute video that is nothing more than a infomercial promoting the insurgency in Iraq. To say that I'm furious would be an understatement. If the Times exposé of the terroist finance tracking program and its subsequent cancellation […]
The Washington Post editorial board -- liberal but not blinkered -- acknowledges that violence in Iraq is down. Don't hold your breath on an apology from Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The big news today on the covers of The New York Times and Washington Post is retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's attack on the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. That's the front page news, but that was only about half of Sanchez's remarks to the gathering of Military Reporters and Editors. In fact, […]
MSNBC's David Shuster is a jerk. In an apparent effort to win kudos from Media Matters for America, Shuster earlier this week went after Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) over her support for the Iraq war. So far, so fair -- though not exactly a sterling example of unbiased journalism. Shuster decided that he'd throw in […]