WashPost Blog: Cops Less Likely to Shoot Unarmed Black Suspects
April 29th, 2016 2:58 PM
The Black Lives Matters folks and their enablers in the press won't like this one bit.
On Wednesday, Washington Post writer Tom Jackman, at the paper's True Crime blog, reported on a rigorous study of police behavior which found that, in his words, "even with white officers who do have racial biases, officers are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects…
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Telemundo Begs for Trump Border Wall?
Latino
April 29th, 2016 7:30 AM
Something odd happened in Telemundo’s coverage of Donald Trump’s debut major foreign policy speech: they kept wondering where his proposal for a U.S.-Mexico border wall went.
AP Story on Anti-Trump Violence Explains Why So Few Trust the Media
April 27th, 2016 8:07 PM
An April 17 Associated Press story reported that "Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media." AP writers Carole Feldman and Emily Swanson complained that "perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans' skepticism about what they read on social media."
In a later paragraph, they confessed that "The poll shows that accuracy clearly is the most…
Pulitzer Announcement Errors Exemplify Failure to 'Get Facts Correct'
April 18th, 2016 11:13 PM
Earlier today, Tim Graham at NewsBusters covered a poll done by an Associated Press-led partnership which found that, in AP's words, "Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public's view of other institutions."
The poll noted that "Nearly 90 percent of Americans say it's extremely or very…
Is Univision Moderating Its Coverage of Hot-Button Issues?
Latino
April 15th, 2016 4:40 PM
Not Really.
In Fla. Governor's Starbucks Saga, AP Claims 'Allege(d)' Job Creation
April 15th, 2016 1:46 PM
For better or worse, the press, Wall Street and others routinely place a great deal of faith in the federal government's payroll employment estimates.
But when Republican Governor Rick Scott's supporters cited data from Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics to defend him against an insufferably rude leftist who started screaming and cursing at him in a Starbucks coffee shop, Associated Press…
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Maine Stations Cover Few Dozen Participants in 'Million Student March'
April 14th, 2016 8:38 PM
Yesterday was supposed to be a glorious day for the people involved in organizing something they called the "Million Student March."
On Monday, they had priceless free publicity provided by leftist luminaries at the Huffington Post. They had a new source of support and participation from the "Black Liberation Collective." They had four platforms students could supposedly believe in and get…
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Sharpton Snaps at Kelly to ‘Calm Down’ When Challenged on Ferguson
April 14th, 2016 1:00 AM
Along with addressing her meeting with Donald Trump earlier in the day, Kelly File host Megyn Kelly began Wednesday’s show by clashing with MSNBC host/liberal activist Reverend Al Sharpton over what transpired in Ferguson, Missouri to the point that Sharpton rudely told Kelly to “calm down.”
Imagine That: ABC/ESPN Blog Demonstrates Chicago 'Ferguson Effect'
April 13th, 2016 10:45 PM
Two writers at the Five Thirty-Eight blog, purchased by ABC's ESPN network two years ago, have done something the crime increase causation deniers will surely detest: demonstrate, based on statistical evidence, and despite their tentative language, that "real changes in the process of policing in Chicago" have led to "spike in gun violence in Chicago since the end of November."
Translating the…
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Nets Paint Change to NC Law as Effort to ‘Diffuse Widespread Outrage'
April 13th, 2016 3:52 PM
Keeping up the drumbeat against North Carolina’s religious freedom law on Wednesday, the three network morning shows seized on Republican Governor Pat McCrory amending the legislation and used the development to further hammer the state.
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Cleric Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden on Univision, Telemundo
Latino
April 13th, 2016 3:45 PM
A New York cleric known for bombast, demagoguery, rabble-rousing and harangues has found receptive platforms on Univision and Telemundo, on which to compare Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden.
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Solo Telemundo informó sobre recién fraude de visas, cruce de frontera
Latino
April 7th, 2016 5:42 PM
Telemundo fue la única cadena de televisión que informó sobre una operación federal encubierta contra el fraude de visas de estudiante por una banda criminal así como sobre una acción de la Patrulla Fronteriza que impidió a 102 inmigrantes cruzar el Río Grande para entrar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos.
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Etiquetan "racista" y "antiinmigrante" a Ley de Sentencia de Arizona
Latino
April 6th, 2016 2:04 PM
Si se oyera el cuento a través de Univisión o Telemundo, podría pensarse que la Ley HB 2451 en Arizona promulgada recientemente por el gobernador Doug Ducey está llena de odio y es totalmente "antiinmigrante". Una vez más, la realidad es muy diferente.
NY Times Oddly Ambivalent About Calif. Stopping Campus Anti-Semitism
March 27th, 2016 7:04 PM
The New York Times’ Ian Lovett reported Sunday on the University of California condemning anti-Semitism in its university system, especially in relation to the anti-Israeli BDS movement infesting college campuses. The problem has been festering for years -- and so has the Times’ oddly ambivalent response to the outbreaks of anti-Semitism on left-wing college campuses. While the paper is eager to…