The Inquirer, like most lefty newspapers, usually makes at least a feeble attempt to make its partisanship seem non-partisan. Today, however, they didn’t cover their tracks very well. They ran a front page story about how former Philadelphia Eagle Jon Runyan receives a tax break (an agricultural exemption) on part of his 20 acre property.
Several [...]
As I was writing the previous post on the craptastic legacy media, I realized there’s a remarkable parallel with the unfolding CRU hacked email scandal. When true believers (leftwing journalists in one case vs climate researchers in the other) control the input (reporting vs climate data) and the “unbiased” check on quality (editors vs peer [...]
The legacy media continues to not quite grasp the fact that they no longer have a monopoly on information. Nicholas Kristof and the NY Times provide us with another shining example. It’s an over the top story about a guy who lost his job and his insurance and has a potentially fatal health problem that [...]
Wire magazine posted a brief piece to their website about a recent court ruling involving Valerie Plame. Naturally the reporter summarized who she is and why we should know her. Unfortunately he got it (predictably) wrong.
The piece says her identity was compromised when
Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, leaked to syndicated [...]
I can’t help but note a few things that illustrate the sad state of the left…
George Bush can be interrupted giving a speech but His Majesty Obama shall not be interrupted. We are not amused.
Obama accuses his opponents of lying (“It is a lie, plain and simple”) and that’s fine but Joe Wilson’s shout of [...]
One of the things I find so irritating about the leftward lean of the media is that they refuse to admit it. So I always enjoy friendly fire incidents where lefties admit the media is on their side.
As it happens, one of my coworkers (a confirmed lefty) provided just such a moment recently. We had [...]
Not surprisingly, the health care legislation in congress has many things tucked into it that are of questionable relevance to health care reform. Among the gems are “billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers’ markets….”
What’s particularly interesting is a comment defending these items by Ted Kennedy’s spokesman. He said:
If improving [...]
While I’m on the topic of newspapers and columnists, I’d like to propose an overdue change to the newspaper industry: let’s make them use citations. The status quo gives newspaper authors a fair amount of leeway in playing fast and loose with the facts or, probably more commonly, using dubious sources. Here’s an example from [...]
There are times when news articles just leave me scratching my head. It’s not that I don’t understand what they say. It’s that I wonder sometimes whether columnists think through fully what they are writing. Paul Krugman provided my most recent cranial massage. He wrote:
But suppose that Congress were to mandate gradually tightening emission limits, [...]
So Carol Browner, former EPA Administrator for Pres. Clinton and incoming Envro-Czar for (almost) Pres. Obama, turns out to literally be a socialist. No kidding. Do you think this has been covered by the media other than Foxnews? Uh….no.
Maybe tossing around the phrase green revolution isn’t such a great idea.
Looking back on the soon-to-end Bush presidency, I think the single biggest mistake the president made was one of strategy rather than policy. He correctly recognized that the media was biased and would not give him fair treatment. It was a big strategic error, however, to not engage them at all.
It is a given that [...]
There was a ridiculous piece about Sen. McCain misspeaking a number of times recently. It is an ominous sounding story that claims to "raise a serious, if uncomfortable question: Are the gaffes the result of his age?" Give me a break. The article's motivation has nothing to do with age: it's politics. This is just [...]