'Today': Saddam Execution 'Vindictive, Primitive, Revenge, Suspect, Ru
December 30th, 2006 7:43 AM
This morning's "Today" show characterized the execution of Saddam Hussein with a multiplicity of negative terms. According to NBC reporter Richard Engel, reporting from Baghdad:"The Iraqi government is now going to great lengths to say that this execution was carried out with the utmost respect for human rights; that it was a very organized, precise event. However, interviews that we've…
CNN.com Home Page Photo Gives Saddam the 'Deceased Statesman' Look
December 29th, 2006 11:10 PM
Words fail (direct image link):Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
Correcting an LA Times Headline in Its Ramadi Follow-up Story
December 29th, 2006 9:51 AM
Headline:
Marines deny airstrikes used against insurgents in Ramadi
The corrected headline should be:
No Airstrikes Occurred at Ramadi, and We Don't Have the Integrity to Acknowledge Our Original Error in Reporting Them
Patterico has noticed ("L.A. Times (Almost) Admits Ramadi Airstrike Didn’t Happen") and promises much more later. Also, Hot Air has weighed in.
Here's a reminder of original…
State Dept. Acknowledges Arafat's Orchestration of 1973 Murders; Old M
December 28th, 2006 12:24 AM
WorldNetDaily reported yesterday on the discovery of a State Department document released earlier this year (Here it is, converted to an HTML doc by yours truly for easy reference). State acknowledges, apparently for the first time, something that Scott at Powerline (here and here) demonstrated definitively more than three years ago from other available evidence.The admission is that State has…
So Which Is It, AP? (On Iran and Nukes
December 26th, 2006 11:03 AM
On December 24, in a unbylined report on the reaction of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (you know, Time' Magazine's "Champion of the dispossessed") to United Nations sanctions, The Associated Press told us:Ahmadinejad: U.N. Will Regret Move..... On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international…
Fox News Panel Discusses Media Coverage of Iraq War Versus World War I
December 22nd, 2006 5:33 PM
An absolutely extraordinary discussion occurred on Thursday’s “Special Report” concerning the role of the media in wartime, and what the change in press coverage in the past sixty years has meant for the nation. Tastefully setting the table, host Brit Hume showed a clip of Clear Glass Productions' satirical film depicting how today’s liberal media would have covered World War II had this current…
