WaPo: Abstinence, Shown Working, 'Controversial' Anti-AIDS Tool
April 3rd, 2008 10:01 AM
On the House floor, yesterday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) relayed this news, as reported by the Catholic News Agency (CNA):"No generalized HIV epidemic has ever been rolled back by a prevention strategy primarily based on condoms.” No major Old Media outlet has, as far as I can tell, reported Smith's relay of that powerful finding. But the Washington Post's David Brown did find space in his…
WaPo's New Worry for Elderly: No More TV Come Next February
March 31st, 2008 11:55 AM
It's a looming crisis for the country's aged, worthy of front-page coverage in today's Washington Post.Is it the classic pay the heating bill or buy groceries quandary? No. The media-hyped dilemma of whether to buying gasoline or fill prescriptions? Good guess, but no. It's, wait for it, millions of elderly people with equally elderly TV sets facing a boob tube-less doomsday come next February!…
WV Paper's Report on Food Stamps: Closer To the Truth than Most of Old
March 30th, 2008 10:45 PM
In a Wednesday story on food stamp program participation in West Virginia that is still being linked at Drudge this evening, Charleston Daily Mail writer Justin D. Anderson fell into the same trap reporters have been falling into for nearly a year, but later largely made up for it by acknowledging that the program is a supplement, and is not designed, or intended, to pay for all of its…
WaPo Letter to Editor: Bush Doesn't Deserve to Throw Out First Pitch
March 29th, 2008 3:11 PM
If you were editor of a major American newspaper, would you publish letters to your department tremendously disrespectful of the President?After all, you probably have hundreds nay thousands to choose from on a daily basis. Why bother with ones defaming the most powerful man on the planet?Sadly, such decency didn't seem present at the Washington Post Saturday which actually published the…
Newspapers Fail to Recognize Liberal Leanings of Families USA
March 27th, 2008 12:41 PM
From windy Washington, D.C., to sunny Palm Beach, Florida, the liberal print media are refusing to note the liberal bent of an interest group vocal in the health care debate. The March 26 edition of the Palm Beach Post -- a broadsheet notorious to conservatives for its unbalanced treatment of Rush Limbaugh -- featured not one but two articles which pushed government-run universal health care…
CBS's Smith on Media: 'We're Not Exactly Watchdogs Here
March 26th, 2008 3:20 PM
On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith discussed a question being asked of Chelsea Clinton about Monica Lewinsky on the campaign trail with Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn, who was baffled by the media’s refusal to ask Chelsea tough questions: "Frankly, in all of my years of journalism, I have never seen the press lie down like this before. This is -- this is not what the…
