LA Times Blames Zidane Head-Butt on Bush
July 16th, 2006 4:31 PM
In what has to be the biggest stretch of all time to personally attack the President, the LA Times tries to blame the bad behavior of a French frog on George W. Bush. NOW WE KNOW why France's team captain lost his cool in the World Cup finals and France lost the trophy to Italy. Terrorism.Zinedine Zidane, who is of French and Algerian ancestry, head-butted an Italian player who insulted him.…
The Decline of Western Newspapers - Part I
July 14th, 2006 10:21 AM
The numbers are starting to come out for newspaper earnings. Take a wild guess. The Tribune Company lost 62 percent of their earnings. McClatchy kept earnings about the same though they lost almost 5 percent of their circulation. Media General lost 47 percent from a year ago. Gannett lost 8.3 percent. Of course, none of the papers will admit that their bias and reportage are to blame for their…
Big Three Network Evening News Viewership Has Dropped Like a Rock This
July 11th, 2006 10:10 PM
A year ago tomorrow, I did a post on the continued decline in evening news viewership at Big Three Networks NBC, ABC, and CBS, and made these observations and predictions about why that decline was taking place, and would continue (some of last year's text was slightly revised):
All three nightly broadcasts most likely lose money, when isolated from their morning counterparts (Today, Good…
After Comparing Bush and Bin Laden, LA Times Columnist Shredded by Hug
July 11th, 2006 8:54 PM
On Monday, July 10, 2006, fabulous radio host Hugh Hewitt celebrated his 6th anniversary on the air with an on-air spanking of Los Angeles Times columnist Jonathan Chait. The day before, in another one of his badly misguided op-eds, Chait actually wrote that President Bush is a "greater threat" to the country than Osama bin Laden, and it is "quite reasonable to conclude that Bush will harm the…
Wikipedia, Ken Lay, and the Problem of Neutrality
July 11th, 2006 12:45 AM
The death of Ken Lay, the founder of the now-defunct energy company
Enron, aroused a lot more passions than a typical CEO's passing would.
Apparently, many liberals out there are letting their anger out in the
strangest place, Lay's entry in the online community encyclopedia,
Wikipedia. Frank Ahrens reports:
At
10:11 a.m., the Lay article concluded, "The guilt of ruining so many
lives finaly […
Of All the Photos of Rush, This is the One Google Chose
July 5th, 2006 2:29 PM
Don't know if it will still be up when you go there, but when I went to Google News Top Stories at about 2:25 PM EDT, this is the photo of Rush Limbaugh that I found, accompanying the various stories reporting that Rush will not be charged in the discovery, when recently going through customs, of a prescription medicine not in his name.NewsBuster Noel Sheppard has written elsewhere about Google'…
