Category Archives: Media bias

News flash! Michael Moore is filthy rich.

Note: My personal blog is on indefinite hiatus, however I am cross-posting from my newspaper blog at The Marshall Independent and the print-only TV Guide. Michael Moore recently tried to deny the blindingly obvious on Piers Morgan’s TV talk show. … Continue reading

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CNN does it again in Poland

I’m kicking myself right not for not knowing how to do a screen capture, ’cause I just missed a doozy. I saved the link http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream4&hpt=T2 but unfortunately all I get now is a black screen and a voice commercial. Somebody … Continue reading

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Crummy journalism: lies of omission

I suppose it’s no secret I don’t have a very high opinion of national big-name journalism. In fact, I’m collecting examples for a book on the subject of how to do crummy writing and biased reporting. There is a weird … Continue reading

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All the news that’s fit to bury

Over at the Huffington Post there is a story by a lady with the delightful name of Pigeon O’Brian about her quirky friend Lisa Druck – better known after a name-and-lifestyle change as Rielle Hunter. Rielle Hunter is of course, … Continue reading

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It can, and does, happen here

Good news on the free speech front from Europe. Lars Hedegaard was acquited in Denmark of charges of saying true, but not nice things about Muslims resident in his country.

The hate-speech trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria is still ongoing though. Frau Sabaditsch-Wolff is facing similar charges stemming from… well it appears that in support of her xenophobic, racist, etc etc rants she (this is shocking but I have to say it) actually quoted the Koran

And in America a big-time Washington D.C. lawyer Paul Mirengoff, who happens to be a conservative blogger was made to grovel in public, take down a blog post, and shut up.

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Justice 2010

* Hmmmm, I set out to write a different post here. Fortunately I like to go to the primary source. The NAACP passed a resolution about the Tea Party I’ve been reading about. I invite readers to check out the … Continue reading

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Ding-dong the witch is dead

Well she’s gone now. Helen Thomas has “retired” after her too-public remarks that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and return to the countries their grandparents escaped from. Cautious columnists wonder whether or not the Hearst chain … Continue reading

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For the bias file: Amy Goodman

The following is a column by Amy Goodman, published March 12, 2010, about the death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer On March 16, 2003. Corrie’s parents are … Continue reading

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How to slant a news article

By now everyone has heard that James O’Keefe, one of the dynamic duo who revealed ACORN as the criminal enterprise it is, was arrested in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans for allegedly trying to bug her phones, … Continue reading

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Lesley Stahl on Huckabee

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they … Continue reading

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