CBS Suggests More Gun Control Could Impede Terrorism
April 18th, 2007 1:32 AM
In an April 17 article at CBSNews.com, investigative reporter Armen Keteyian tracked down the origin of the guns used by Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui. While Keteyian failed to consider what part restrictive anti-concealed carry policies on the Virginia Tech campus may have played in ensuring Cho faced no opposition from armed civilians, he found a former ATF agent to criticize…
‘Foulmouthed’ Wonkette and the Don Imus Double Standard
April 17th, 2007 11:03 AM
As liberals in the media call for the firing of well-known conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh in the wake of the Don Imus controversy, none seems willing to turn the politically correct microscope on those espousing views from the left.With that in mind, Lisa De Pasquale, Conservative Political Action Conference director for the American Conservative Union, published an article at Human…
Liberal Bias Invades NFL: Olbermann to Anchor NBC Football Show
April 16th, 2007 3:38 PM
According to TV Newser, football fans can probably expect some liberal bias in the upcoming NFL season. Keith Olbermann, the reliably left-wing MSNBC host, will become the co-anchor of NBC’s "Football Night in America":MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is returning to network sports after a six year absence as a co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. "This will, obviously, be great fun and a great…
Post's Kurtz: Reporting on Duke Lacrosse 'Irresponsible
April 16th, 2007 2:06 PM
In an online chat at washingtonpost.com today, media reporter Howard Kurtz condemned the media's rush to judgment in 2006 in the Duke lacross rape allegations."If you go back and lok at the coverage of 13 months ago, knowing what we know now, teh tone of much of it was irresponsible," wrote Kurtz in response to a question from Floris, Va. Later in response to a question from Portland, Ore.,…
WashPost Leaves Out That Gun/Suicide Study Funded by Anti-Gun Foundati
April 16th, 2007 11:27 AM
Update at bottom of page.Harvard researcher Matthew Miller released a study on April 10 that ties higher suicide rates with higher rates of firearm ownership. Six days later the Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam printed a five-paragraph brief in the paper's "Science Notebook" that cribbed heavily from the Harvard School of Public Health press release. Yet nowhere in his story was the fact that…
Post Peddles Liberal Spin on Abstinence-Ed Study
April 15th, 2007 1:57 PM
UPDATE at bottom of postCiting a new study that shows no statistical difference in sexual activity between kids taught abstinence-only sex ed and kids taught about contraceptives, the April 14 Washington Post presented the results as a moral and scientific vindication for critics of abstinence-only education.From the get-go, abstinence-only proponents were dealt a short hand in reporter Laura…
