Wyatt Emmerich is a publisher of a variety of small community newspapers in Mississippi. He exists and a recent column of his was in fact printed in a The Cleveland Current – a newspaper that he does not own. Having said all that, don’t have Emmerich do your taxes. Emmerich created the chart below to […]
The past couple of weeks the media elites have been going after Fox News with renewed vigor. First was the revelation by Howard Kurtz that Fox News’ Washington Editor Bill Sammon had directed his employees to describe the “public option” as the “government option.” The outrage meter went straight to 11, despite the fact that […]
I would normally respond to this in the comments, but I think this is a probably a good opportunity to lay out where I stand on freedom of the press vs. national security. First, John’s comment: Thank you Mr. Freedom of the Press. Can we also shut down the NYT website? Not many people are […]
Max Boot comments on the latest Wikileaks document dump over at Commentary Magazine’s “Contentions” blog and questions the American media’s patriotism – specifically The New York Times – when it comes to aiding and abetting serious damage to U.S. national security. There was a time when editors and reporters thought of themselves as citizens first […]
I play video games. For an approaching middle-age guy, I’m reasonably competent. When I play games like Halo or Call of Duty online, I’m usually somewhere in the middle of all the players. Occasionally I’m near the bottom and on rare, freak occasions I’m near the top. The total number of people I’ve shot in […]
Mark Hemingway takes Politifact.com down a notch. Politifact is hardly above employing highly-politicized context to render judgment. The latest example of this is their recent item on Rand Paul. Here’s what Rand Paul said: “The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year.” Here are the facts: “Federal […]
Maybe it’s because some of them appear on so many TV shows for far too many minutes. But lots of pundits just can’t stop the stupid. She [Sarah Palin] did have a pretty good night, and I certainly defend her, and anybody, endorsing a candidate not on the pragmatic grounds that they are going […]
Late Saturday night a story broke in the Alaska Senate race about some reporters at the Alaska CBS affiliate KTVA suggesting that there would be a child molester at a rally for Republican nominee Joe Miller or maybe a fight. The audio was obtained after a KTVA staffer failed to successfully hang up the phone […]
If you turned in this article in Professor Hoy’s journalism 101 class, you’d get an F. Single-payer coverage sought by doctors The government is the only insurance provider in such a system, touted by some local physicians By Bob Cuddy | [email protected] These are gloomy days for those who believe President Barack Obama’s health care […]
Usually it’s politicians using push polls to make things look better than they are. In some instances, less trustworthy media do push polling in an effort to make their side think things are better than they really are. $1 magazine, known to many as Newsweek has a poll out today that has apparently been shipped […]