Ed Driscoll

Photographer Who Took Obama ‘Selfie’ Shot Now Says He’s ‘Ashamed of Mankind’
By Randy Hall | December 15, 2013 | 4:04 PM EST

Right now, the White House press corps is in a shouting match with the Obama Administration over the White House's refusal to allow media photographers to take pictures of various presidential events. While the left-leaning journalists are tossing around words like "propaganda" to describe the official photos which are being released, the recent trip President Obama took to South Africa for the funeral of Nelson Mandela illustrates that the media elite really isn't interested in news so much as it is in preserving its institutional power.

Perhaps the most-discussed news item out of the Mandela funeral trip was a picture that was taken of Obama, British prime minister David Cameron, and Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt taking a “selfie” -- a self-portrait usually shot with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone -- a moment that was caught by Roberto Schmidt, a photographer for the French Press Agency. Now, Schmidt says that the overwhelming interest in the shot makes him “ashamed of mankind.”

Liberal Blogger Learns the Hard Way What It's Like to Be Conservative
By Randy Hall | August 20, 2013 | 4:10 AM EDT

As conservatives, we know what happens every time we criticize the policies of the liberal occupant of the White House: We're instantly branded as “racist” and “intolerant” while our views are quickly and summarily dismissed.

However, Kevin Drum, a political blogger for the liberal Mother Jones website, has received similar treatment as he learned that no matter which side of an issue he supports, his mailbox on the Twitter social media website quickly fills up with emails from people taking the opposite view.

Audio: Ed Driscoll's Interview with Brent Bozell About 'Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election'
By NB Staff | July 16, 2013 | 5:34 PM EDT

"The Obama people were very smart in the way they handled media relations," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Pajama Media's Ed Driscoll during a recently-recorded interview about his new book with Tim Graham, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election and How to Stop Them Doing It In 2016.

"The people that they chose for interviews were either entities that weren't news to begin with, i.e., entertainment shows that he did appearances on, or, if they were news personalities, they were so much in the tank for him, that he could go to them over and over and over and then would give him... the kind of puff-ball treatment that he wanted" with "Brian Williams of NBC" and "Steve Kroft" of CBS's 60 Minutes being "prime example[s]," the Media Research Center president noted. [Listen to the full interview at PJ Media or download the MP3 here; to buy your copy of Collusion, click here]