Cartoon Depicts U.S. Military As Child Killers
July 21st, 2007 4:35 PM
Last Saturday, NewsBusters shared a truly disgraceful Ted Rall cartoon that depicted a United States soldier as a suicide bomber. On Friday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in its "Cartoons From Around The World" section, featured a rather revolting "comic" by German cartoonist Rainer Hachfeld. In it, a panel showed children in Afghanistan shooting toy guns playfully at an American military plane…
Dem Congressman Compares President Bush to Hitler, Media Mum (Updated
July 16th, 2007 4:43 PM
A rather disturbing event occurred in a Minnesota library last Sunday: Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) compared President Bush to Adolf Hitler, while implying that the White House was involved in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.Didn’t hear about this? Well, how could you? After all, no major, mainstream media outlet other than Fox News and CNN thought it was newsworthy…
Support For Hamas Declines After Gaza Takeover, Media Disgracefully Mu
July 16th, 2007 2:59 PM
The Associated Press published a report early Sunday concerning a new poll that found Hamas' popularity has declined since the terrorist group took over Gaza in June.Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches identified not one major American media outlet thought this revelation to be newsworthy.Not one.As reported by the AP at 10:16AM EST Sunday, and published by the International Herald Tribune (…
Jules Crittenden on Media in Iraq: ‘Lazy, Stupid or Willfully Ignora
July 12th, 2007 10:47 AM
For those unfamiliar, Jules Crittenden is a city editor for the Boston Herald with a blog that is truly a daily must-read for those interested in top-notch media analysis.On Thursday, Crittenden lambasted various mainstream press outlets for their lazy, stupid, or willfully ignorant coverage of the war in Iraq.I highly recommend it be read in its entirety.Early in his piece, Crittenden asked a…
Holiday Bush Derangement Syndrome: Crisis in Gaza All White House’s
July 5th, 2007 10:46 AM
American foolish enough to read anything by the clearly anti-Bush McClatchy news service were treated to an astoundingly disgraceful Independence Day gift Wednesday with an article that blamed all the problems in Gaza on – wait for it – the White House (h/t Dan Gainor).In this smear piece published on the occasion of our nation’s 231st birthday, the hits started right in the glorious headline: “…
Al Qaeda Atrocity Follow-up: Old Media Member 'Explains' Non-Coverage
July 4th, 2007 10:07 PM
Michael Yon doesn't have an answer (HT to NewsBuster reader "acumen") as to why Old Media won't cover the Al Qaeda massacre of a small village near Baqubah, Iraq that he reported earlier this week (related NewsBusters posts are here and here):
Coordinates to the area of the gravesites are MC 679 381.
In my dispatch, I reported that six people were killed, but mentioned that Iraqi soldiers were…
While Old Media Obsesses over Haditha, Al Qaeda Massacre Gets the Sile
July 3rd, 2007 8:57 AM
(WARNING: Link contains graphic and unsettling pictures) Michael Yon reported a massacre committed by Al Qaeda that wiped out a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, Iraq just after midnight on July 1.
Matt Hurley at Weapons of Mass Discussion had this to say yesterday in reaction:
If American media fails to cover this with the same amount of gusto that they have pursued Haditha and Abu Ghraib…
CAIR and Al-Qaeda Connected; Does Anyone in Old Media Care
June 24th, 2007 12:31 PM
Note: Though this post is primarily about Ohio's governor speaking at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet in Columbus last Sunday, it contains nationally significant info about connections between CAIR, Al Qaeda, and Hamas, and Old Media's non-coverage of those connections. ______________________________
On Friday ("Strickland-CAIR Update: Reported Strickland Staffer Response…
CNN Shills For Hamas: ‘This is Law and Order in the New Gaza
June 22nd, 2007 2:23 PM
Last week, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas took over Gaza in what was described by many as a bloodbath.Just days later, CNN’s Ben Wedeman filed a report from the region in which he glowingly praised these terrorists’ efforts to bring “law and order in the new Gaza.”In a video segment that was aired at various times Thursday, Wedeman exclusively interviewed Gaza residents who seemed thrilled…
Scotland Yard Officer Admits Leaking Al Qaeda Terror Plans to Newspape
June 19th, 2007 11:49 PM
If a counterterrorism officer working for England’s Scotland Yard admitted to leaking an intelligence report containing al Qaeda attack plans to a British newspaper, do you think this would be newsworthy here in the States?Well, our media certainly didn’t think so, as such occurred in a British courtroom Monday, but not one American press outlet deigned to share the information with us.Not one.As…
Media Ignore Report on Al Qaeda Suicide Bombers Heading to America
June 19th, 2007 9:51 PM
ABC’s Brian Ross broke an exclusive story Monday, first at his blog “The Blotter,” and then on “World News with Charles Gibson,” concerning teams of well-trained al Qaeda suicide bombers supposedly heading to the United States and Europe. This report included video-clips of a Taliban “graduation” ceremony (video available here), with still-pictures of the event available here. Yet, despite the…
