AP Headline: 'Obama Breaks from Bush, Avoids Divisive Stands
January 24th, 2009 9:10 PM
In his first few days as President, Barack Obama issued decrees concerning a terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, abortion, and apparently told Congressional Republicans who they should and shouldn't listen to.Yet, according to the Associated Press, "he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands."Makes you wonder what these folks were watching this week, doesn't it, for in a…
Veterans' Ball Organizer Takes Money, Runs; Where's the Outrage, Media
January 23rd, 2009 3:09 PM
In a follow-up to an January 19 report from the Navy Times, the Army Times reported yesterday that:The promoter who failed to hold a promised Veterans Inaugural Ball on Tuesday has left behind a trail of angry corporate sponsors and charities who contributed to the event, disappointed performers who were booked for entertainment, and 17 to 25 beauty queens who were told they would be ambassadors…
AP Worried Obama Rules Media With Iron Fist
January 23rd, 2009 4:34 AM
On January 22 the Associated Press posted an interesting little tidbit of news about how Team Obama is treating the press. Apparently, the Obama White House is trying to force news agencies to use Obama's own, special, ostensibly "official" photographer's photos taken at Obama press conferences instead of allowing news agencies to have their own photogs present to record the event. As a result of…
Democrats in Chicago and Alabama in Trouble, Neither IDed as Democrats
January 22nd, 2009 3:27 AM
One convicted on bribery, the other attacks cops at crime scene saying she wasn't driving drunk
Now that the media has had it's near orgasmic reaction to Obama's inaugural, it's apparently time for some more "name that party" fun for everyone. Today we have incidents widely separated by distance, but not separated at all in at least one way. We have in Alabama a pair of convictions on bribery…
Geithner’s Tax Troubles: There’s Much More, and the Press Is Virtu
January 22nd, 2009 1:22 AM
Sometimes you learn a lot from commenters. I was going through the comments tonight at my Pajamas Media column about the Geithner nomination that went up earlier today, and came across this at Comment 39 from "Mike M": The deduction he took for the summer camp as a day care expense is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED IN THE IRS CODE! That’s out and out tax fraud. Even Leona Helmsly (sic) is jealous in her…
AP Geithner Hearing Report: No Mention of IMF 'Reimbursements' for Tax
January 21st, 2009 2:24 PM
The Associated Press's 1:12 p.m. coverage (saved here, as the dynamic link changed during the drafting of this post) of the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on Barack Obama's nomination of Timothy Giethner as Treasury Secretary has plenty of discussion of Geithner's tax "mistakes" (the picture, but not its heading, is from a November 21 New York Times article). But as has been the case with…
Muslim With Ties to Hamas to Address Inaugural Prayer Service
January 18th, 2009 1:14 PM
A Muslim religious leader with alleged ties to the terrorist group Hamas is scheduled to address President Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service on Wednesday.Given the recent hostilities in Israel surrounding Hamas, irrespective of a just-announced ceasefire, one has to wonder how much attention this matter will get from Obama-loving media which are also largely pro-Palestinian.Although…
AP's 'Q&A' on Geithner's Taxes Has Excuses Galore, No Mention of 'Reim
January 17th, 2009 10:17 AM
The Associated Press's record of running interference for Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner continues mostly unabated.My chronicle of AP's largely weak coverage, most of which has been previously detailed at NewsBusters (here, here, and here), is at the end of this post.No AP report I have seen has noted that Geithner applied for and merely pocketed partial "reimbursements" from the…
MRC's Bozell Slams AP for Bush vs. Obama Inaugural Double Standard
January 16th, 2009 10:36 AM
"Sometimes, Brian, I think we live in a parallel universe, where the media see the world one way when it's a Democrat in power and another way when a Republican is in power," NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News Channel's Brian Kilmeade. [audio of segment available here]The Media Research Center president appeared on the January 16 "Fox & Friends" to discuss an astounding contrast…
Susan Crawford and the Media: Torture is as Torture Does
January 16th, 2009 2:08 AM
Susan Crawford's recent assertions of torture simply do not add up, and your main stream media isn't going to investigate anytime soon. Had Crawford made an assertion that there was unequivocally no torture to speak of at Guantanamo, the media would be sifting meticulously through her statements with a fine-toothed comb, smearing her reputation at every turn. Instead, her arguments seemingly…
Absolutely Pathetic AP Headline: 'Bush address includes laundry list o
January 16th, 2009 12:36 AM
Wow. This unbylined Associated Press story (HT Michelle Malkin) doesn't really require any elaboration, except to note one thing -- It ends the debate over the existence of liberal/left media bias: Exit question:
