No, it's not one of those made-up critics quotes for the next Hollywood blockbuster, rather it is the media's coverage of President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. Let's ignore the fact that the mainstream media dismisses the Swift Boat Vets for Truth as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bush campaign, yet 60 Minutes […]
The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash has an excellent article on actor Stephen Baldwin. Stephen is the one Baldwin brother who doesn't walk in lockstep with the Hollywood elite. The Columbia Journalism Review has an article on the World Journalism Institute -- a group which trains Christians interested in a career in journalism. The WJI has […]
Julian Sanchez points out that the outrageous Dick Cheney quote from yesterday isn't quite as outrageous as the press has made it seem. As I read this, he's not saying the danger is that if we elect Kerry, then the danger is that we'll be attacked. He's saying that if we elect Kerry and we're […]
According to Editor & Publisher a grand total of nine reporters were arrested and held for varying periods of time during last week's Republican National Convention. The reporters held for the longest period of time were not credentialed and weren't from major, mainstream publications. The kicker to this whole story, however is the complaint that […]
Today's Boston Globe article on President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam era is Exhibit A in a double standard in the mainstream media. Let's set aside for a moment that Bush has ordered the Pentagon to make available to the press all of his military service records and Sen. John Kerry has not. […]
Columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, got some heat from the American left when he suggested that former Vice President Al Gore was, in his clinical opinion, "nuts." Another medical doctor has added his considered opinion in a letter to the editor in the October 2004 edition of The Atlantic magazine on President George W. Bush's […]
As I read the "old media" Web sites -- newspapers, broadcast networks, wire services -- I'm increasingly angered and dismayed by onesidedness, lies and double standards. First, there was last Friday's initial AP report on a Bush speech where the president wished former President Bill Clinton a speedy recovery from open heart surgery. The AP […]
You expect this sort of thing from the fever swamps of Democratic Underground and the like, but newspaper editors need to learn to just say "no." As I watched Tuesday night's network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old […]
I'll come out and say it. I'd like a job as an editorial writer/columnist/blogger. I'd like to get paid for writing about whatever I want to write about. Unfortunately, it appears that I'm too intelligent to qualify in today's newspaper industry. Exhibit B (exhibit A was Maureen Dowd, below) comes from Xrlq who notes that […]
Last night, after giving the keynote address at the GOP convention, Georgia Democratic Sen. Zell Miller went on MSNBC's "Hardball" program and ripped Chris Matthews to shreds. You can find video of the interview here. [Scroll about half way down and you'll see it on the left.] I think Matthews is lucky that Miller was […]