Archive for the ‘The Failing MSM’ Category
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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 ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
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 ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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 ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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 ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
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 ...
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