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Does Watching TV Damage Character
The Culture and Media Institute's new Special Report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America's cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God.
Interesting D-Day Question: What if CNN Was Embedded at Normandy 63 Ye
A really marvelous video was posted at YouTube today depicting a somewhat fictional press outlet – the People’s News Network – reporting on the American invasion at Normandy as if it happened today with the present antiwar media.
Lots of fun moments for those possessing a sense of humor (video available here, h/t NBer Bender).I don't know who created it, but it marvelously captures how today's…
Couric Portrays Bush as Antagonist 'Annoying' Putin, Snubbing Global W
Discussing the G-8 summit with CBS's Jim Axelrod, Katie Couric on Wednesday night portrayed an “adamant” President George Bush as the antagonist causing Russian President Vladimir Putin to be “annoyed” about NATO plans to install a missile shield in Poland, a controversy, she fretted, that is distracting attention from global warming. “Economic issues and climate change were supposed to be the…
'Radio Equalizer' Tears Apart Leftist Blog That Called O'Reilly a Liar
Radio host and blogger Brian Maloney has an excellent takedown of liberal bloggers who accused Bill O'Reilly of recently lying about the New York Times's coverage of the JFK Airport terror plot.[NewsBusters sister publication TimesWatch.org dealt with the Times downplaying the terror plot here and here.]Below is the relevant excerpt from Maloney's blog, "Radio Equalizer," portions in bold are my…
USA Today: 'A Little Medical Coverage' Worse than None
Story downplays advantages of limited-benefits insurance, relies on critics by 2:1.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of 'Free' Health Care
Every new 'right' the U.S. government has promised has turned into a massively expensive failure, yet the media continue to cheer supporters of tax-funded programs.
Chivalry Still Alive: AP Gives Larry's But Not Laurie's Age in David D
Who would have thought that chivalry would still be alive at the liberal Associated Press? Yet in its story on the split between Larry and Laurie David, the venerable wire agency states the age, 59, of the creator of Seinfeld, but not that of his activist wife, producer of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth."Isn't the feminist AP the home of strong women, proud of every wrinkle? For the record,…
Journalists Prefer Left-Wing WSJ Buyout over Murdoch
News media up in arms at prospect of media mogul owning Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
Bush Derangement Syndrome at LA Times: G-8’s Kyoto Failures All Bush
As people who are following the G-8 summit in Germany are well aware, it is highly doubtful that any meaningful accord will be reached at this meeting concerning CO2 emissions. In fact, reports out of Europe and Asia for many weeks leading up to this event have made this eventuality quite clear.Yet, this didn’t prevent the Los Angeles Times’ Ron Brownstein for blaming the lack of such an…
Left Dusts Off Murdoch Strawman in Opposing Dow Jones Bid
As the negotiations about whether to sell the Wall Street Journal's parent company appear to be moving along between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and the Bancroft family, owners of a special class of stock which gives them control over Dow Jones.Whenever Murdoch is going hard for a media asset, it inevitably sets off concerns among those on the left (such as the employee unions at Dow…
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qa
With no shortage of items documenting how the American media are liberally biased, it’s often easy to forget how the European media are so much more dominated by the hard left. In his cover story on the war in Afghanistan in the June 11 Weekly Standard, Michael Fumento recounted his experience embedded with the U.S. military at Forward Operating Base Lagman in the Zabul province of Afghanistan.…