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Clift Frets Over 'Right-wing, Libertarian Refusal to Let Government Sp
Add Newsweek's Eleanor Clift to the list of journalists who ludicrously believe opposition to tax hikes has left the nation unable to repair infrastructure. On the McLaughlin Group over the weekend, she blamed crumbling infrastructure on how “now we have this tax-averse society, rallied by the Republicans, tax-averse where everything becomes sort of a right-wing, libertarian refusal to let…
CNN.com Contributor Offers Advice to President Bush: Appoint a Black A
The media predictably went into full frenzy mode in reporting the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. But leave it to the Cable News Network to interject its own brand of social commentary into the discussion. On CNN.com's Political Ticker, contributor Roland Martin openly suggests that it is "[t]ime for a black attorney general."In the article, Martin praises PepsiCo executive…
God's Christian Warriors, the Newsweek Version
Story on small evangelical college highlights reporter prejudice.
Saunders Discredits Media-highlighted Schroeder Slam on Conservative I
FNC's Brit Hume on Monday night picked up on a column by the San Francisco Chronicle's Debra Saunders which discredited the media spin on an AP/Ipsos poll that found liberals read one more book a year than conservatives, a finding Pat Schroeder, President of the Association of American Publishers claimed illustrated how conservatives can't think beyond slogans. The AP and CNN's Jack Cafferty both…
Gannett Newspaper's Editorial Policy Blatantly P.C
A few days ago I e-mailed the Wilmington (Delaware) News Journal -- a Gannett newspaper -- asking why this article failed to mentioned the race of the assailants who have been victimizing Hispanics recently. (The assailants are black). After all, police reports noted it, as well as local radio stations. The paper responded and included their editorial policy regarding such matters, apparently…
Media’s Favorite Coal Expert Actually Opposes Industry
What happens a guy with verifiable liberal credentials (contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Air America) just happens to have written a book highly critical of the coal industry – “Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future”? You put him on television or the front page of your opinion section and you parade…
Media's Favorite Coal Expert Picks at Industry
Liberal activist Jeff Goodell paraded by media outlets as objective industry expert.
CNN on Sub-Prime Mortgage Problems: Where is Personal Responsibility
'Your $$$$$' has a new name, but keeps up the anti-business theme.
Religious Cartoon Censored: Journalists Admit Double Standard
It is becoming ever more obvious that the press treats cartoons poking fun at Islam in a much different manner than those poking fun at any other religion. One might even say there is a double standard, and why not, since the media themselves acknowledge that it is true. After running a warning to the client newspapers about the content of Berkeley Breathed's Sunday cartoon 'Opus', comics editor…
The Media Assault on the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment is
the ultimate Constitutional expression of personal responsibility. In the Bill
of Rights, the Founding Fathers acknowledged the right of the American people to
arm themselves, for both self defense against criminals and as a check on
tyrannical government. CMIs latest Eye on Culture, The Media Assault on the
Second Amendment, examines how the media push their anti-gun…
Did Feminist Katie Couric Exploit Men to Climb the Ladder to Fame and
On Friday, National Review writer Myrna Blyth unwrapped some of the nuggets in the forthcoming Ed Klein biography of Katie Couric, the one the Katie camp is trying to squash, in very Hillaryesque fashion, as "old news." [Klein appeared Monday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes.] Before she kindly noted that the MRC has piles and piles of examples of Katie's liberal bias, Blyth dished Klein's…
Dumb Headline of the Day: 'Can Saints Have Bad Days
What's your nomination for today's Dumb Headline of the Day? Here's mine, from the August 27 blog entry by Chicago Tribune religion reporter/blogger Manya Brachear. The topic was Mother Teresa's diary and how some entries revealed a fear of being distant from Jesus:"Can saints have bad days?"