The newspaper of record, The New York Times does some alleged fact-checking that needs some serious fact-checking of its own. First, the facts that both sides agree on: Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas spokesman, said that the terrorist group preferred Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain. Obama's top campaign adviser said he was "flattered" by […]
A couple of months back Sen. John McCain was touring the Middle East. At an impromptu press briefing, McCain misspoke and mixed up Sunni and Shia. The media talking heads on the various cable talk shows leapt on the mistake and the media template of "John McCain is old and senile" took air. Don't expect […]
With the exception of the military, there is probably no subject that the mainstream media is less qualified to cover intelligently than religion. Case in point is Washington Post writer and "On Faith" co-host Sally Quinn's appearance on PBS' "Charlie Rose" show last week. Newsbusters' Tim Graham reports: Sally Quinn came on with Rev. Floyd […]
This is good news: WASHINGTON—A recent glut of feature stories on the death of the American newspaper has temporarily made the outmoded form of media appealing enough to stave off its inevitable demise for an additional 21 days, sources reported Monday. "People really seem to identify with these moving, 'end-of-an-era'-type pieces," Washington Post editor-in-chief Leonard […]
The media assault started Friday with a softball appearance on PBS' "Bill Moyers Journal." How softball? BILL MOYERS: When I hear the word "black liberation theology" being the interpretation of scripture from the oppressed, I think well, that's the Jewish story-- REVEREND WRIGHT: Exactly, exactly. From Genesis to Revelation. These are people who wrote the […]
Everyone's heard the talk likening the media coverage Sen. John McCain gets on his "Straight Talk Express" to the hagiographic coverage Sen. Barack Obama gets. Don't be fooled. Come the general election, the media will still be good for at least 5 percent in the polls for the Democrats. Evidence: The properties box in the […]
Brian Ross and ABC News are lying -- again. Bob Owens calls them on it. The focus of the story, according to ABC News, is that U.S. dealers of civilian firearms are to blame for Mexico's drug cartels and their violence problems... so why do they highlight an M60 general purpose machine gun, a weapons […]
CNN pulled a dumb-dumb on its Web site. You can order T-shirts with "ripped" from CNN's headlines. Of course, you can get the T-shirt to say anything you want by just changing the URL. Unfortunately, you can't order them. UPDATE CNN has fixed this loophole.
Karl Rove wrote a letter to MSNBC's Dan Abrams which contained a number of questions regarding Abrams' personal journalistic standards (or lack thereof). Unsure of what to do, Abrams sent the letter, with his answers interspersed [reproduced here in bold] to his mentor, Keith Olbermann. Dear Mr. Abrams: Karl Rove called me "mister." On April […]
I'm looking forward to watching HBO's "John Adams" miniseries once it hits DVD, but someone's got the history wrong -- either HBO or the Los Angeles Times. I'm betting on the one with "four levels of editors." In his portrayal of our second president, Paul Giamatti creates a man perpetually dissatisfied, disgusted by the preening […]