So Dick Cheney agreed with an interview question that ‘dunking in water’ is a reasonable form of interrogation, and the White House Press Corps went nuts. Tony Snow bears the expression of a man who can’t quite believe the spectacle before him. You’d think the Press was on the verge of uncovering American [...]
OK, this post is NOT going to be about justifying the war. We’ve done that here, a lot, and the situation is fluid.
AP is running a story stating 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the war.
My ire is directed at crap like this being reported as if it were fact. Does [...]
This isn’t a huge issue, but it is amusing. Viewers who happened to be watching the President give a speech were instead treated to audio of Anchoress Kyra Phillips using the restroom. It seems her microphone was live and going out over the air for nearly a full minute, drowning out the President.
Mistakes [...]
CNN runs a story on the web site today under a headline. But before we get to the headline, let’s check out the first two paragraphs.
Less than half of Americans believe the United States is now safer from terrorism than it was before September 11, 2001, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.
Forty-three percent [...]
Thanks to frequent commenter Paul Williams for the link here.
Journalism has been taking a lot of hits lately. We’ve had the Reuters photojournalism scandal. We had Rathergate. Awhile back we had a Pew poll that revealed a serious erosion in public trust of the media. I personally can’t get through ten [...]
Brian Williams in his own words:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: But, here we have maybe 24 people who have lived in London and England and the free world for all these years that become citizens, subjects of the Crown, and yet, after having gotten to know us, they want to kill themselves to hurt us. Isn’t that [...]
Seriously, am I laying on my bathroom floor with drool forming a pool under my cheek as my dying brain fantasizes some freakish world where the media is guiltier then my wildest suspicions of bias?
How did no one notice a guy walking around the rubble in one picture suddenly appearing as a ‘bomb victim‘ tangled [...]
Allah over at Hot Air is all over this one, but since it appears at the bottom of one of his posts, I decided to put the images here rather than just sending you on over.
I’m starting to believe that Adnan Hajj is not only faking photos, he’s trying to see how blatant he can [...]
I’m seeing some ’so what’ posts bouncing around on the left regarding the Adnan Hajj photo scandal. It is interesting to consider how important this topic is to photojournalism when the distortion of politics is not involved.
Charlotte Observer photographer Patrick Schneider has lost his job for manipulating the colors in a photo that appeared in [...]
Rusty Shackleford at My Pet Jawa has yet another faked photo from Adnan Hajj. I get the impression this is the proverbial tip of the iceberg here. Reuters better get on the stick and hire someone from the outside to sift through these photos and make damn sure they come clean if any [...]
Reuters gets caught posting a Photoshop picture of the ‘damage’ caused by them Joos in Beirut. Sad story here.
As you read through the link, you’ll find that the photo was submitted by a ’stringer’ – an independent submitting news on the ground reports to Reuters. In this case, one Adnan Hajj. This [...]
BREITBART.COM – USA Today: Call Database Not So Broad
Is this another case of ‘fake but accurate’ reporting?
USA Today acknowledged in a “note to our readers” Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records, as it previously reported.
But spokesman [...]
Via Instapundit.
Jonah Goldberg from The National Review.
All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn’s words, “bands of rapists, going block to block”? Not true. The tales of snipers firing on medevac helicopters? Bogus. The yarns, peddled on Oprah by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans police chief, that “little babies” were getting [...]
Republicans commonly complain about media bias, and many of those complaints are valid in my view. However, the remedy to this bias is not counter-bias to the right, which we see on Fox News. Journalism has a vital function in our Republic, and overt bias in either direction is harmful to our electoral [...]
pike speak: Stupid Reporter Award of the Day
I just had to laugh this morning at this post over at John Pike’s site. Great stuff.
lgf: What Media Bias?
Cut-and-Paste journalism at the Associated Press.
LONDON – In a July 9 story about Prime Minister Tony Blair’s comments on overcoming global terrorism, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he spoke of easing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Blair did not specifically mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his interview with the [...]
I might be staking out a contrarian view on this, but recent events raised some questions in my mind about the future of the Blogosphere. I admit that my thoughts are still a bit half-formed at this point, and I would entertain debate on the subject.
The recent Dan Rather and Eason Jordan events are [...]
Of course, I came late to this party, but I do have some thoughts about it.
First, when the story broke, my reaction was a bit muted. After all, the idea that Jordan would think the US military would intentionally kill journalists in a war zone isn’t really a surprise to me. It’s simply [...]
So Dan Rather is out. I’m not sure, but wasn’t he going to step down in March anyway? They’re treating this as news, so maybe that isn’t the case. Either way, I hope that the resignation is directly tied to the RatherGate memo. Probably too much to ask for considering CBS [...]
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