I'm not a devoted watcher of CNN's Crossfire (or as Henry Hanks often refers to it as: "Colossalfailure"), but right now they have on Hussein Ibish and Jerry Falwell -- talking about "religious extremism." Of course, the religion in question isn't the same one that sends kids into pizzarias to blow themselves and others up. […]
...about a liberal, then this would be all over the media and the liberal blogosphere as evidence of those hateful Republicans. Unfortunately, this time it was a liberal talking about a devout Christian -- so it's OK. Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio: “Now they’ve got this guy who’s head of the intelligence section in […]
Well, I've got the 60 Minutes II piece on the "sexed up" Iraq intelligence and there's really no surprises in the statements coming from former State Department analyst Greg Thielmann. After checking out some background helpfully provided by Robert Musil, what CBS managed to come up with is the same ol', same ol'. As I […]
I recently finished reading Bob Kohn's "Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why it Can No Longer Be Trusted." On the whole, the book is well written and documented. Kohn identifies many different methods of injecting bias into news stories, nearly every one of them masterfully accomplished by the Times. […]
Tonight's "60 Minutes II" features a State Department career foreign service officer who claims that the U.S. intelligence regarding Iraq was "sexed up" a la Andrew Gilligan. But that's not all, if you watch the video preview (follow the link above and look for the video link on the right), CBS newsman Scott Pelley asks […]
Flipped over to MSNBC as both Fox News and CNN were in commercial breaks, and watched as Chris Matthews and friends all agreed: California is a middle-of-the-road state, "like New York." Yeah, and The New York Times editorial page is centrist. Exhibit A in the case against an out-of-touch media elite.
Don Luskin has already a cursory shot at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest offering and labeled and phantom corrections. I'd just like to echo Luskin's assessment of the labeled correction. I, too, was struck by the "I'm not the only person who's screwed up and made this mistake and anyway, it's not so […]
I'm not going to do extensive commentary about the flare up on whether Bush administration officials illegally leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson to get back at her mint-tea-sipping sleuthing husband. (If you're interested in the issue, Thomas Maguire over at JustOneMinute is the guy to see -- his link is on the left.) […]
From today's New York Times corrections page: An article on Monday about Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz's comments at a forum on Iraq misstated President Bush's position on whether there were contacts between Al Qaeda and the government of Saddam Hussein. Mr. Bush has said there were such contacts; he has not said they […]
The difference between the two is intent. An error is unintentional. A lie is not. So, what is a viewer to believe when the BBC's Andrew Gilligan, the man who told BBC World Service listeners that U.S. troops weren't at the Baghdad airport when they actually were, says that he made a "slip of the […]