New York Times editor Bill Keller, apparently oblivious to the problems facing the newspaper industry, thinks the Times is doing just great. My confidence in The Times rests on the obvious, overwhelming, growing demand for what we do. Good. Because that demand sure isn't reflected in your stock price. And it's not reflected in the […]
The Washington Post has a report on the cover of today's paper that offers an incomplete and cursory analysis of Sen. Barack Obama's online fund-raising. Concerns about anonymous donations seeping into the campaign began to surface last month, mainly on conservative blogs. Some bloggers described their own attempts to display the flaws in Obama's fundraising […]
Michael S. Malone -- a longtime journalist -- has a piece up over at Pajamas Media decrying the one-sided media coverage of this presidential campaign. I encourage you to read the entire the entire thing, but I want to highlight a couple bits. But nothing, nothing I’ve seen has matched the media bias on display […]
Over at National Review's "The Corner," Jonah Goldberg makes a succinct case for ideological diversity in newsrooms. The post was prompted by CNN's Drew Griffin's misquoting of a National Review article by Byron York that I mentioned here. Before Byron's post closes the issue for all time, I'd just like to make a quick point. […]
Media bias is not always in how newspapers or the major TV networks cover an issue. Sometimes it is the choice whether or not to cover a story in the first place. The latest case in point is Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.). Mahoney replaced disgraced GOP congressman Mark Foley who had sent inappropriate text messages […]
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign raised $150 million last month. By the time the last check clears and the campaign goes into slumber mode until the next election (should he win), Obama will have spent more money than George W. Bush and John Kerry spent in 2004 combined. How this is supposed to "save" public financing […]
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released its latest report on media coverage of the presidential campaign and its results should come as no surprise to anyone who's been conscious the past one and a half months. The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a […]
I posted earlier today on Sen. Joe Biden's comments that Barack Obama would face a manufactured crisis and screw it up. NBC and MSNBC have decided to report on the incident -- and they're using a completely different statement by Biden. They're juxtaposing a line Biden said at some other time about Obama having "steel […]
CNN's Drew Griffin was interviewing Sarah Palin today -- yes, Palin's doing interviews (in fact, more interviews than any of the other three candidates) -- when he decided to ask this question: CNN: Yeah. Governor, you've been mocked in the press. The press has been pretty hard on you, the Democrats have been pretty hard […]
After last week's "Joe the Plumber" debate, some McCain-Palin supporters dressed up as plumbers, complete wiith plungers, and held up signs that said "I am Joe the Plumber." The crack CBS fact-checking team determined this to be false. At least two of the members aren't quite as similar to the newly famous Joe Wurzelbacher as […]