Military BansYouTube, MySpace, MTV and Other High-Trafficked Sites
May 15th, 2007 6:28 PM
Updates at bottom: I want my MTV! Somewhere a soldier or sailor in Iraq or Afghanistan is probably thinking that today. According to the AP, on May 14, the Department of Defense blocked “worldwide” the US troops who use its networks and computers from accessing 12 popular websites that include, YouTube, MTV, MySpace, Blackplanet and Photobucket. The Defense Deparmene which the DoD said“take up a…
AP and Yahoo’s Misleading $4 Per Gallon Gas Picture
May 13th, 2007 5:57 PM
Have you seen the picture on the right showing a Shell station in San Francisco with gas prices in excess of $4 per gallon? Well, there’s only one problem with it: this isn’t close to indicative of what gas prices are in the Bay Area. Not even close.Yet, the following was captioned next to this Associated Press picture at Yahoo Thursday (h/t NB reader Brian Mortimer, emphasis added):High gas…
Michael Moore Under Investigation By US Treasury Department for Cuba T
May 10th, 2007 6:05 PM
Updated below:David German, the AP movie writer, reported that notorious liberal bomb-thrower and fact-fudger, Michael Moore “is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary 'Sicko.' " The May 10 article seemed very matter of fact, but Moore and his movies were presented from the…
Media Ignore Evidence of Global Climate Change 20,000 Years Ago
May 8th, 2007 11:23 PM
It's so easy, the cave men did it? LiveScience.com staff writer, Dave Mosher, wrote an article on Yahoo.com titled "Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals" about Francisco Jimenez-Espejo, a University of Granada paleoclimatologist who “says a lack of evidence has left climate change weakly supported—until now. 'We put data behind the theory,' he said, filling in a large gap in…
AP Ignored Allegations of McGreevey's Corruption, Focused on Supposed
May 5th, 2007 6:50 PM
Yahoo picked up a fluff AP article that distorted Democratic NJ Governor Jim McGreevey’s 2004 resignation. It perpetuated the success of what should have been a politician’s attempt to cover allegations of corruption by using his closeted sexuality to distract an incurious and complicit media. This puff piece kept alive McGreevey’s pattern of announcing something socially startling to draw…
Yahoo's Online Presidential Debate Skews Leftward
April 26th, 2007 10:35 PM
Web use has become such a widespread phenomenon that for next year's presidential election, Yahoo is set to host the first-ever online presidential debate.Unfortunately, all of the web media sources it's chosen to partner up with are liberal leaning. David All explains:When mega-giant Yahoo! decides to play in the political sandbox, I’m going to pay attention. Yahoo! is currently ranked number…
Yahoo Dusts Off 2004 Pic of Actress at Kerry Event to Plug New TV Show
March 12th, 2007 11:27 PM
Clarification (Ken Shepherd | 10:26 EDT): The story in question was written for The Hollywood Reporter and the photo was provided by Reuters.
Yahoo News picked up a Reuters article on Yahoo that reports actress Eliza Dushku of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Tru Calling” and “Bring It On” fame has a new show lined up called, “Nurses.”The article is a tiny little story that isn’t worth much time,…
Has Yahoo Caught the Liberal Bias Virus
October 16th, 2006 4:43 PM
Has another Internet giant gotten the Liberal Bias Virus? Well, the Associated Press is reporting that Yahoo is extending its relationship with CBS to offer more of its news clips beginning Tuesday:Yahoo already shows national and international news from CBS' "60 Minutes" as well as Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and Time Warner Inc.'s CNN. The latest deal will allow Yahoo to post 10 to 20 local news…
The Great Firewall of China--Made in America
July 20th, 2006 12:10 PM
Internet giants Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have come under fire
today from Amnesty International for actively complying with the
authoritarian government of China's attempts to censor the internet
in that country.
These companies came in for withering criticism as part of
Amnesty's campaign to raise awareness of political censorship
throughout the world by highlighting its impact in China…
Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fight Internet Censorship
May 31st, 2006 11:04 AM
Human rights group Amnesty International has launched a new campaign to fight Internet censorship. At its new website devoted to this cause, AI explained its position: “Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information. “The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with…
China Censors CNN, Network Declines to Publicly Condemn
April 20th, 2006 1:26 PM
The authoritarian government of China is well-known for suppressing free speech and sometimes getting American media companies eager to cash in on a huge emerging market to help it do so. Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Time Warner, Fox, and others have soiled their reputations assisting the communist regime's crack downs on dissent.American media companies don't always back down. Sometimes, however,…
