The New York Times is publicizing the fact that they've exceeded their goal of getting 100,000 ... fans on Facebook. Considering the facts laid out here regarding the company's stock price and circulation, lauding the fact that you got people to push a button on Facebook seems a little like praising the lounge act on […]
Over the past week-plus there's been some candidly refreshing admissions regarding press bias -- but don't worry nothing substantive will come of them. First was this article by Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, following up on her earlier article detailing the tilt in her own paper's presidential coverage: But some of the conservatives' complaints about […]
Needless to say, if the GOP's top tax policy legislator had as many problems as Charlie Rangel does, he'd be drummed out of town. Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in several […]
If you ever wondered why there's so much global warming hysteria in the media -- it's ignorance of science encouraged by "scientists with an agenda." Today's example of scientific illiteracy comes from the Associated Press. WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton […]
The class was AG301 and one of the general education requirements at Cal Poly SLO. The class was three times a week and consisted of two classroom lectures (Mondays and Wednesdays) and a "field trip" each Friday. The field trips could be eye-opening for kids like me whose encounters with farming was limited to seeing […]
The truth is, you could probably find some McCain voters who are equally ignorant as these people. Of course, the mainstream media would jump all over this if McCain voters were the ones to made to look like fools -- especially when they named Fox News as their source. Don't expect NPR, PBS or The […]
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has completed her analysis of her paper's campaign coverage and the numbers aren't good for those supporting the proposition that the media has been fair and balanced in its coverage of the 2008 presidential contest. The numbers: Stories about the candidates (since Nov. 11, 2007): Obama: 946 McCain: 786 After […]
Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, is it time for the mainstream media to get out of Obama's tank? Nope. Chris Matthews: Well, you know what. I want to do everything I can do to make this thing work, this new presidency work. Joe Scarborough: Is that your job? Matthews: Yeah, that […]
Normally when the news media misses a story and you're presented with the question: "Was it malicious or just stupid?" I tend to side with the "stupid" choice. I've mentioned this before, and former CBS newsman and author Bernie Goldberg agrees, but the liberal bias that comes out of mainstream media newsrooms isn't a conscious […]
The Washington Post returned to the issue of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign's refusal to turn on the basic Address Verification System on Wednesday, but it lets the Obama campaign get away with a whopper. When asked whether the campaign takes steps to verify whether a donor's name matches the name on the credit card used […]