Usually media bias in straight news stories is a rather subtle affair. This example, from The New York Times Monday paper isn't so subtle. (via Timeswatch) The Republican plan includes a shrinking of Medicare and Medicaid and trillions of dollars in tax cuts, while sparing defense spending. Mr. Obama, by contrast, envisions a more comprehensive […]
From the “I can’t make this up” file comes a commentary by Poynter.org’s Roy Peter Clark entitled “Why defenders of the First Amendment should oppose the bill to defund NPR.” Clark opens his commentary with this disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t play one on TV. And that’s where he should’ve stopped writing. […]
In the run-up to the 2010 elections, the mainstream media continually sought to portray the Tea Party movement as a bunch of nutty racists, just one dog-whistle order from Rush Limbaugh away from mowing down progressives with automatic weapons purchased from Mexican drug cartels. When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a conspiracy minded nutjob […]
The New York Times published an editorial suggesting that conservative Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from various cases where the partisans at the Times would like the perceived “other side” to win. You can read Ed Whelan’s piece for all the particulars, but I just want to share his summary. More broadly, I will observe […]
A few items to point out on the anthropogenic global warming front today. First is this article earlier this week from Ars Technica (which normally has very good tech news, but when it comes to AGW is a cheerleader for the alarmists) which makes the case that scientists pushing the idea that global warming is […]
When you write as many words as a blogger or newspaper columnist does, you’re bound to write something monumentally stupid from time to time. The difference between the two, however, is the multiple layers of editors employed by newspapers. Of course, over the past few years those editors have increasingly found themselves getting unemployment checks […]
An article in Friday’s Washington Post regarding a new law in Virginia that would put abortion clinics in the “hospital” category rather than the “doctor’s office” category that they currently operate under in the state’s regulatory system. In the Post’s survey of recent events that might have contributed to the passage of this new law […]
I was reading this article in today’s Washington Post, when this sentence jumped out at me: He laments the low rankings the District gets on surveys about quality of business environment, for example, and he hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's gutting of local gun control laws. The author could just have easily characterized the D.C. […]
Watch this video and explain to me how Planned Parenthood is pro-woman exactly. Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp’s Underage Sex Ring Now read this article and explain to me how exactly the media isn’t taking sides when it comes to covering abortion. My comment posted on the article: Bias much? If the Brady campaign had similar […]
Reading this, I’m unsure exactly how Harper’s Magazine is supposed to make money. Publisher John MacArthur: “Our readers know that our financial independence results in uncompromised, quality journalism and writing. I don’t want to take money from people of modest incomes, and I certainly don’t want to accept corporate or foundation money that, too often, […]