The sound wasn't turned up on the TV set closest to my desk this evening as the Super Tuesday returns rolled in, so I didn't hear any explanations on air for this curiosity/conspiracy that I'm about to describe. I'm sure that there's a good explanation for all of this, but some super-pollster is going to […]
A lot of media bias isn't conscious, it's merely a result of the way the reporter sees the world. Here's an example of an unconscious right-wing bias courtesy of the Associated Press: When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules. One party takes decisive action. The other hems and haws. […]
Some easily offended members of the religion of pieces have discovered that Wikipedia's entry for the founder of their religion, Muhammad, includes historical artwork depicting him. This has resulted in a lot of anger and a petition, but no riots -- yet. Surprisingly, the editors at Wikipedia have demonstrated a heck of a lot more […]
Another of the Greatest Generation has died. Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82. Jacobs died January 29 of natural causes at a Redding hospital, his daughter, Nancy Jacobs, told […]
When the price comes down, I might have to pick this book up: "Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age." From a Q&A with author Jim Kuypers over at CollegiateTimes.com: Q: The book focuses a lot on how President Bush justified the actions of the United States military post Sept. […]
There's a discussion going on over at Poynter's Web site about the use of salty language in America's newsrooms. I'm linking to one letter that I found hilarious, but it is absolutely R-rated -- for that reason the letter is after the jump.
There you go again. The Center for Public Integrity has decided that the time is right to trot out the lie that the Bush administration purposefully, and with malice aforethought, "orchestrated [a] campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq." The report on the Bush adminstration's "orchestrated deception on the path to […]
It's getting to the point that "media ethics" is earning the same sort of oxymoronic status once reserved for "military intelligence." Case in point is Sunday's New York Times public editor column on the undisclosed relationship between Times supreme court reporter Linda Greenhouse and her husband Eugene Fidell. (I first mentioned the case here.) After […]
Iowahawk has done a devastating satire on The New York Times' irresponsible story that ran last Sunday in the paper of record demonizing military veterans. The Times ran a sensationalistic article painting veterans as psychopathic killers but failed to do the basic statistics -- comparing veterans to the general population. It's pretty clear that military […]
Last month, National Review's Ed Whelan exposed a conflict of interest problem for New York Times supreme court reporter Linda Greenhouse. To make a long story short, Greenhouse's husband, Eugene Fidell, had filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of Gitmo detainees in the Boumedienne and Hamdan cases before the Supreme Court. Greenhouse had reported on those […]