Slate Attacks Plagiarizing Journalists

Warner Todd Huston
 

Columbia Journalism Review Equated Milbloggers to Chickenhawks

The Columbia Journalism Review hit a new low with Paul McLeary's latest article when apparently claimed milbloggers didn't serve in the military. Outraged that milbloggers and the right dared to question the veracity of Scott Beauchamp's fantastical writings which claimed US soldiers in Iraq played with the skulls of Iraqi children, McCleary asked “Why do conservatives hate the troops” and…
Lynn Davidson
 

'Doesn't Bother' Brzezinski If Cleavage Coverage Helps Hillary

Mika Brzezinski is so outraged that people are discussing Hillary's cleavage . . . that she hopes it helps the Dem prez candidate.The topic arose at 6:18 A.M. EDT on today's "Morning Joe." The affable Willie Geist, a frequent panelist, is serving this morning as guest host for the absent Joe Scarborough. He broached the subject.MORNING JOE GUEST HOST WILLIE GEIST: One of the other big stories…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CNBC Pundit Compares Hillary's Cleavage to Barry Bonds, Andrea Mitchel

Tim Graham
 

CBS Looks at Cuba's 'Gift' to American Med Students, Finds 'No Health

Brad Wilmouth
 

ABC's Harris: British PM 'Potentially No More Poodle' to Bush

Brad Wilmouth
 

USAToday Reports More Bluster on Hurricanes, Global Warming

Ken Shepherd
 

Broder Baffled Why Bush 'Against Providing Health Insurance for Kids

Washington Post reporter and columnist David Broder, known as the “dean” of the Washington press corps, perfectly encapsulated, on Friday's Washington Week on PBS, the media establishment's more government spending is the answer to everything attitude when he acted bewildered as to how anyone could oppose a massive expansion of a federal health insurance program. When host Gwen Ifill raised how “…
Brent Baker
 

Brooklyn Student Arrested for 'Hate Crime': Flushing a Koran

Media overlook the story: hate crimes laws are being used to punish speech.
David Niedrauer
 

NBC Uses One Mom's Woes to Argue for More Food Stamps

Emotional manipulation: nice storytelling, terrible reporting.
Kristen Fyfe
 

Women Outraged At Hillary-Cleavage Story Demand Stories On Male Crotch

Tim Graham
 

CNN Anchor Suggests Killing Dogs Worse Than Rape, Where’s the Outrag

In the wake of the Don Imus, Opie and Anthony scandals, one would think a press figure suggesting that killing a dog was worse than raping a woman would draw a lot of media attention. However, a CNN sports anchor named Larry Smith made such a comment on Thursday, and I would venture to guess that few readers had even heard about it. Think there'd be such media silence if a well-known…
Noel Sheppard
 

ACORN Vote-Registration Fraud in WA: Are There 2004 Ramifications

ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been busted again (video is available at the link; HT Michelle Malkin): (AP) King County prosecutors filed felony charges Thursday against seven people in what a top official described as the worst case of voter-registration fraud in state history, while the organization they worked for agreed to keep a better eye on its…
Tom Blumer
 

Shocking ‘Chris Matthews' Discussion: Maybe We Shouldn’t Leave Ira

[Updated w/video clip, 14:21 Eastern, July 30]Something happened on Sunday's "Chris Matthews Show" that likely shocked virtually all viewers on both sides of the aisle: the panel, stocked with liberal media members as usual, actually discussed reasons why America shouldn't pull troops out of Iraq. In fact, not only was this issue seriously debated, but some of the statements made could have come…
Noel Sheppard