So, you’ve got a huge political contest in your backyard that’s garnered interest from across the United States and if you can get through to your Web site, this is what you see: I’m not sure what that blank box in the top middle is supposed to have in it – if anything, but there […]
But only to note that President Barack Obama has done a full-flop on the benefits of independent politicians.
There’s lots of ways that the media can inject their biases into their coverage. Several years ago my case study of how The New York Times buried the lede in the the race for a Maryland Senate seat got me a mention in a media criticism textbook. But burying bad news deep down in a […]
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing – a fact demonstrated by Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reporting on this morning’s Supreme Court session. Scalia (yes, Scalia) invokes foreign law in court By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 12, 2:45 pm ET WASHINGTON – Supreme […]
In a post last month I mistakenly identified the incorrect state for Rep. Mike Pence. A couple of commenters – who apparently came here from a left-leaning site – claimed that the mistake proved I had “lost all credibility” and conveniently ignored the larger point of the post. I quickly – and accurately – corrected […]
Who is this guy and what has he done with Jack Cafferty? Welcome to the real world, Jack.
Bush caught all sorts of crap for that one from the media. That was then, this is now. TEEING OFF: A half-hour after President Obama vowed to catch the terrorists behind a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas, he arrived at 10:40 a.m. at the Luana Hills Country Club, where a golf course […]
The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page is feeling some heat for using a sexual slur to describe the Tea Party movement. Like many of his brethren in the largely liberal mainstream media, he feels that because some early Tea Party movement members were ignorant of the sexual connotation of the slur, it’s OK for him to […]
The Wall Street Journal’s house liberal Thomas Frank, like many on the left, has taken a look at the media landscape and decided that the MSM has too many conservatives. This is a terrible time for newspapers, but the solutions suggested over the last year by the deep thinkers of the floundering industry give one […]
You know, it’s starting to be old hat bashing Politifact for its partisan “analysis” of various politicos’ statements, but this one is particularly outrageous. The target is GOP Rep. Mike Pence of Ohio Indiana and his “half true” statement is this: "To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed […]