On my way home this evening, I was listening to the radio when the 9 p.m. news report came on courtesy of CBS Radio News. The subject of the news report was GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's formal challenge of the election in Washington State. The report contained two quotes from the state Democratic Party […]
When you typically ask a professional journalist why they decided to get into that profession, the answer you all too often get is something related to changing the world or helping the downtrodden. (See Coleman, Nick.) I'm an anomaly. I got into journalism because I love to write. Have I gotten excited when I uncovered […]
The right to speak your mind only applies to liberals. That may sound like some sort of stupid joke, but the American left all too often behaves as it is true. When you criticize some sophomoric Hollywood star who has taken it upon themselves to be the font of all that is right and good […]
Broadcasting & Cable is reporting an effort by CBS News to try to convince the White House that it is not a subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out […]
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Nick Coleman apparently went off his medication when he wrote this rant against the Powerline bloggers. Instapundit has a roundup of links, but old axiom about having a battle of wit with an unarmed man comes to mind. Maureen Dowd won a Pulitzer Prize. Nick Coleman is (I'm certain) a handsomely paid […]
Washington Post TV critic and avowed liberal Tom Shales has a brief year-in-review column which contains the following gem: Even bashing Bush might be interpreted as endangering the troops -- hogwash that nonetheless got plenty of circulation. Tireless press critics during war or peacetime, the conservatives were handed a valuable new weapon when CBS News […]
It's a psychological term for attributing your own opinions, insecurities on someone else. Today's case study is Wade R. Sanders, who has an op-ed piece in The San Diego Union-Tribune. It's readily apparent that the only person Sanders dislikes more than President Bush is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Most of the piece is the standard […]
The Hartford Courant went out and asked a bunch of elite media bigwigs what the biggest "media story" of the year was and published their answers. My vote would be for CBS News' forged documents and the trailblazing work in exposing it by Little Green Footballs and Powerline. However, I'm not a bigwig and therefore […]
Two weeks ago there was a huge media brouhaha over a national guardsman's question to Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld about a lack of armored Humvees and how the soldiers were digging through junkyards to come up with spare bits of metal to reinforce their humvees. The entire issue also became a subject of journalism ethics […]
A story came over the wire yesterday on a Cornell University survey that shows *horror* that Americans believe Muslims are more likely to be terrorists -- fancy that. Of course, the survey wasn't phrased in quite that way. Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, […]