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Washington Post Ignores Qualifications to Paint Picture of Judicial Cr
Immigration judge has extensive legal background, but you wouldn't know it.
ABC and CBS Lead with 'Strong Rebuke' of Bush on Terror Suspect; Ignor
ABC and CBS on Monday night led by celebrating a 2-to-1 federal appeals court ruling against the Bush administration's policy of holding a sleeper cell suspect at a military brig without redress in civilian courts, but in eagerly quoting from the ruling neither bothered to mention that the two judges in the majority were Clinton appointees. “Tonight,” Charles Gibson teased at the top of World…
Chicago Tribune Ombud: Using Hillary's First Name In Headlines Is Sexi
Chicago Tribune “public editor” Timothy McNulty claimed on Friday that he has been sensitized to a gross indignity: stories referring to Hillary Rodham Clinton as merely “Hillary.” Prodded by feminists, he claimed that this indignity deserves exploring, even as he acknowledges that Hillary uses “Hillary!” as a first-person promotional tool in her own campaign. As Howard Kurtz of the Washington…
NY Times: Poverty's a Huge Issue, Though We're Better Off Than Ever; W
NY Times Magazine devotes 21,000 words to warped economic perspective.
CNN About-Face on CEOs: Higher Pay OK If Stock Is Doing Well
'American Morning' contradicts previous story on CEO compensation.
TV Anchorman Lobbies Connecticut Legislature For Bill Benefiting Broad
This really is delicious: a television anchorman in Connecticut has been exposed as having lobbied members of that state’s legislature in order to get a bill that benefited broadcasters passed.As reported Friday by the Hartford Courant (h/t Dan Gainor): Al Terzi, anchor of WFSB, Channel 3's "Eyewitness News," personally called a key legislator to urge the bill's passage. Terzi's WFSB colleagues…
Rather Attacks Couric: 'Dumb It Down, Tart It Up
As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday’s edition of "Morning Joe" and lobbied for a "a strategic withdrawal from Iraq." He also found time to twice bash his "Evening News" successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and tarting up the news. After giving the standard caveat that Couric is a "nice person," he went in for kill. Speculating on the program’s…
Edwards Strategist Not Liberal Enough for Commenters at Time Blog
Time magazine's "Swampland" blog last week gave former Rep. Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) a platform as guest blogger and left-wing readers quickly pounced with all the juvenile invective they could muster. One commenter to Armey's valedictory post wished that Armey would eat sh*t and die, albeit saying so with more flowery language: "May you engage in coprophagy, then shuffle off this…
An Odd Way to Attain Peace
Back in January, I reported on a particularly odd funeral over in the Palestinian territories of a 10-year-old girl named Abir Aramin, who was supposedly killed by the Israeli Defence Forces at an "anti-barrier" protest.
Figure 1: Bassam Aramin, Jan. 20, 2007.
Imagine my surprise, then, to learn from freelance journalist Hélène Keller-Lind over the weekend (en Anglais for we non-Francophiles)…