Earlier this month the Pew Research Center came out with a survey showing that Americans have taken the old axiom to "not believe everything you read" to heart. The report is chock full of what you'd expect -- more Republicans watch and trust Fox News, more Democrats watch and trust CNN, nobody watches MSNBC -- […]
The good professor discusses some legal issues that our favorite liberal talk radio network is facing. The Wall Street Journal article on Air America can be found here. (Sorry, subscribers only.) What was very interesting to me about this issue was Al Franken's response to the revelation that the network's founders had decieved people as […]
I'm having a tough time working my way through tonight's "60 Minutes" interview with former President Bill Clinton. Clinton's lies and justifications for his behavior are bad enough, but when you've got to deal with Dan Rather's misstatements of fact, it can really get frustrating. Case in point: Rather: In his book and, time and […]
The New York Times today corrected a mistake it made nearly a month ago -- one that painted American troops in a (surprise) bad light. [A]n article on May 21 about fighting in Iraq quoted two comments incorrectly from a news conference by Maj. Gen. James Mattis, the Marine commander in the desert area near […]
Link after link to media reports of today's 9/11 commission staff reports contain stunning inaccuracies -- claiming that Iraq and Al Qaeda were not involved with each other. (Saddam: "Al Qaeda? Never heard of him.) From the Los Angeles Times: No Signs of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties Found 9/11 report appears to dismiss a key rationale […]
The 9/11 commission's declaration that they have found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States" is being turned into a stick to beat the president with the "Bush lied" canard. The panel investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al […]
A Roll Call article exposes a recent Los Angeles Times poll on the presidential race that gave Democrat Sen. John Kerry an unheard of 7 point lead. According to Roll Call, the survey sample was made up of 38 percent Democrats and only 25 percent Republicans. Why even make a play at accuracy at the […]
I saw a couple of the local evening newscasts and one story piqued my interest. San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System is raising the price of its monthly pass. The increase varies anywhere from 50 cents to $2, depending on your age. But they never tell you what the cost of a monthly pass is -- […]
Once more, the Union-Tribune moderate-conservative editorially, but definitely liberal in the newsroom. Tonight, when Reagan's name came up one copy editor said: "Reagan disgusted me and he disgusted the American people." The former I can't dispute, but the latter? A Fox News Poll (scroll way down) shows that 65 percent of Americans say they supported […]
Editorially, the San Diego Union-Tribune is moderate-to-right on the political spectrum. Those offices are on the fourth floor. On the third floor is the newsroom. The newsroom is largely left-to-very-left. So, I was only moderately surprised when I walked by and heard an editor opining on Ronald Reagan's legacy and state that the reporting ignored […]