NYTimes Waited Full Week to Correct Military Rape Story - One Tale a T
March 27th, 2007 4:11 AM
On March 18th, the New York Times published a piece titled "The Women's War". It was a feature of great length (18 pages on the Internet) centered around the plight of several female Veterans of the war in Iraq. It detailed the mistreatment they suffered by the US Military, sexual harassment they received at the hands of army officers, and their PTSDs (post traumatic distress disorders). A…
Washington Post Slams House Democrats For Pork-Laden Iraq Withdrawal B
March 24th, 2007 5:12 PM
It must have been very chilly in hell on Friday, for the editorial division of a major newspaper actually came down on Democrats.I kid you not.For those that missed it, the Washington Post ran an editorial Friday entitled “Retreat and Butter,” with a sub-headline “Are Democrats in the House voting for farm subsidies or withdrawal from Iraq?”Having asked a tremendously valid question that most in…
Lauer: Iraq Funding Cut Would Be 'Disaster
March 23rd, 2007 8:37 AM
Matt Lauer said the right thing. Was it for the wrong reason?Discussing on this morning's "Today" with Tim Russert the current wrangling between the Bush administration and the Dem congress over a bill to fund the Iraq war and the Dems' attempt to include a "date certain" for troop withdrawal, Matt Lauer said:"Robert Gates, the Defense Secretary, has said that sometime next month that the…
Media Ignored Reason for 'Gathering of Eagles' Vigil: January Spray-Pa
March 18th, 2007 8:15 PM
In her March 18 article, the Washington Post's Brigid Schulte informed readers about why Gathering of Eagles counter-protesters set out to guard the Vietnam War Memorial on March 17 during the scheduled anti-war protests:At a Jan. 27 antiwar rally, some protesters spray-painted the pavement on a Capitol terrace. Others crowned the Lone Sailor statue at the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue…
Gathering of Eagles (GoE): An Indicator of Old Media Decline
March 18th, 2007 11:54 AM
So how many Gathering of Eagles (GoE) counterprotesters were in Washington yesterday, and how did their numbers compare to the Answer Coalition's protest count?
The New York Times (may require registration) reported "several hundred counterdemonstrators" (HT Michelle Malkin, who has the priceless quote of the day -- ".... the NYTimes relied on 'several veterans of the antiwar movement' to give…
FNC's Hume Chastises Media for Failing to Point Out How Clinton Fired
March 13th, 2007 9:01 PM
Brit Hume led his Tuesday night Grapevine segment by scolding his media colleagues for how “news stories reporting that the Bush administration had considered firing all 93 U.S. attorneys across the country failed to mention that that is exactly what Bill Clinton did soon after taking office back in 1993.” Hume explained how that was not noted, “even in passing, in front-page stories today in…
