Late last week, The New York Times continued to back off its hit piece on Rep. Darrell Issa (DR-Calif.) as it issued two more corrections to major items in its front-page article. An article on Aug. 15 about Representative Darrell Issa’s business dealings, using erroneous information that Mr. Issa’s family foundation filed with the Internal […]
Last week, The New York Times went after Rep. Darrell Issa of Vista. The article appears to have been inspired by an “expose” by Lee Fang over at Think Progress. Needless to say, that’s probably not a source a wise reporter for a once-reputable news organization should be using. Read the article and ask yourself […]
If you’re CNN, then it would be “water” and it would be for President Obama. The media likes polls. Polls are easy. Polls are simple. They’re maximum impact for minimum effort. Every four years we get report after report on Candidate A’s polling in relation to Candidate B. Policy differences between the candidates? Background and […]
Yid with Lid has a post up taking presidential flack Jay Carney to task for hypocrisy for defending President Obama's August vacation when he attacked President George W. Bush for doing the same in 2001. Carney now acknowledges that you never really do get a vacation as president--the work follows you wherever you are. Yid […]
I honestly don’t know if it’s gotten worse or if it’s always been this bad and my perception has changed over the past few years—or a combination of both. Last night I watched some of the coverage of the Wisconsin recall election on MSNBC—the only cable “news” network covering the story. MSNBC had Ed Schultz […]
One of the points made repeatedly in Tim Groseclose's "Left Turn" is not that the media lies, but that it conveys a distorted impression based upon facts that it chooses to include and facts that it chooses to leave out. Today's case in point is from The Washington Post. 400 billion Dollars said to be […]
Earlier this week I plowed through Tim Groseclose’s new book “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” Conservatives have known for at least a couple decades that the media is far more liberal than the public at large. And any conservative who’s actually worked in a newsroom knows that the bias is […]
Two bits of stupidity from the mainstream media today. First MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer: Two things. First, many of you are familiar with the rule commonly stated by lawyers that Brewer violated here: Never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to. But there’s another rule that I’ve told every aspiring journalist I’ve […]
"Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind" comes out tomorrow. I've pre-ordered a copy of the book via Kindle after reading some of the excerpts being posted over at Powerline. Although my mainstream media career has been over for just over two years, I still care about journalism and really do wish […]
Never, ever, ever send a “cease-and-desist” demand to a media outlet telling them not to cover a story. It never works, and then the newspaper or television station (or blog) then goes ahead and adds that to the story they were planning to run anyway. It makes you look desperate and ultimately foolish and impotent. […]