I was listening to Hugh Hewitt as I made my way into work yesterday and at 30 minutes after the hour the few minutes of local news and traffic came on. Among the items worthy of mention at 3:30 p.m. yesterday: That the latest American Idol runner-up appeared on "The View" and sang her version […]
Ana Marie Cox, formerly of the anal sex jokes and Wonkette.com, has been named Washington Editor of Time.com. Yes, that Time.com. And the mainstream media continues to wonder why it is losing respect?
Turns out the answer is journalists. There's not much in the way of details, but the average first-year reporter made $29,048 last year. The report on the survey doesn't say how much I'm underpaid (answer: a lot), but it's good to know reporters today are making far better than the $8 an hour I worked […]
According to Michelle Malkin, NBC's Chris Matthews -- who has his own show that people occassionally watch -- said that if neoconservatives had "been in a schoolyard fight in high school like they should've been, we wouldn't be seeing the world we're getting from them today." Bolshevik Storytelling. As Thomas Sowell so powerfully argued in […]
If you were watching the networks' coverage of President Bush's speech to the NAACP, you'd be left wondering why he hasn't spoken to the group in 5 1/2 years. According to the Media Research Center, NBC, CBS, and ABC all neglected to mention the proximate cause of Bush's 5-year boycott: The disgusting 2000 ad blaming […]
The Media Blog over at National Review Online has presented readers with a couple of questions regarding the New York Times and their insurgent-loving photographer. 1. For those attacking the New York Times for employing a photographer who would stand by and document the killing of Americans without intervening in any way: Is there anything […]
Imagine for a moment that you're a resident of Northern Virginia during the Fall of 2002. People filling up at the gas pump or just mowing the lawn are being shot dead by an unknown sniper. Then imagine you open the Washington Post one Sunday morning ... and there is a compelling photo of a […]
On today's A-1 of the Union-Tribune: More than just Latinos illegally call U.S. home Nearly one-quarter are from other nations If anyone can find Latino on a map, I'd much appreciate it.
The lede: A New Zealand peace activist is facing serious assault charges after he allegedly punched a rock singer in London, leaving the man in a coma. The peace activist reportedly spent 3 weeks as a human shield in Iraq. It's apparent that he learned quite a few things from the time spent with his […]
In response to widespread public outrage at its decision to publish details of the government's Terrorist Financial Tracking Program, the New York Times' editor Bill Keller and reporter Eric Lichtblau have tried to defend themselves by pointing out that the program wasn't really secret at all and the terrorists already knew everything about it. Well, […]