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- Rolling Stone’s Bizarre Cheap Shot At Sarah Palin
March 28, 2011
I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...] - More Disgustingly Overt Reuters Bias
March 24, 2011
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...] - Bloomberg’s “Crash Tax”
March 24, 2011While reading last month’s issue of AAA’s Car & Travel magazine, I was surprised to discover that Bloomberg (with the FDNY behind him) is now trying to push a “crash tax” on anyone involved in a car accident, with such taxes ranging from $365 up to $490, depending on the severity of the crash. The [...]
- Obama’s Abu Ghraib
March 21, 2011The latest news out of Afghanistan is going to be really interesting to follow, if only to see how the media handles it. According to the Guardian and other (so far relatively few) sources, pictures have now made their way out of Afghanistan (courtesy of Germany’s Der Spiegel) showing brutal and psychopathic activities by U.S. [...]
- Sympathy For Israel? Time To Restore “Balance”!
March 16, 2011
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...] 
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Dan Rather In The News Again
This is some hilarious commentary from James Taranto’s Best of the Web: Hey, remember this guy? Dan Rather won significant victories Tuesday in his suit against his former network, CBS. He won access to more than 3,000 documents that his lawyer said were expected to reveal evidence that CBS had tried to influence the... »
Peter Beaumont’s Cheap Political Shots
On Friday, Peter Beaumont wrote a piece in the Guardian attacking Netanyahu for using the term judenrein and going so far as to accuse Netanyahu of using the term “so cheaply to score a political point”. In reality, the only one zoning in on this term for cheap political shots is Beaumont himself. Netanyahu... »
Two kinds of Palestinians?
In a very confusing move, the State Department has decided that it will resettle almost 1,400 Palestinians in the United States due to their having spent recent years in one of the roughest refugee camps. You may be forgiven for actually thinking that the rough refugee camps mentioned are in the West Bank or... »
Reporters Grill WH Spokesman Gibbs Over Prepackaged Questions
A tip of the ol’ fedora to my grandmother, who pointed me to this beautiful clip: it’s Chip Reid of CBS News along with one of the biggest icons of journalism, Helen Thomas from Hearst Newspapers, grilling Obama’s spokesman over what has been recently scandalized as “prepackaged questions” (i.e., journalists planted in the audience... »
Media Looks Away As PA Covers Up Torture Death
Khaled Abu Toameh reports an unknown story about a recent cover-up by the Palestinian Authority of the death of a detainee at their hands, possibly by torture, which is only “unknown” so far because those covering it up were Palestinians and not Israels. The story of the detainee is described by Abu Toameh as... »
L.A. Times Bashes Settlements, As Usual
Steven Plaut, a professor, writer, and blogger living in Haifa recently posted on his blog the eye-catching headline: “L.A. Times runs a pro-settlement column!”. Naturally, I had to check it out. While the headline was technically accurate, what he must have missed was the fact that the L.A. Times also simultaneously ran not one,... »
Obama’s Health Care Infomercial
So, last night was the airing of the notorious Obama Health Care Infomercial on ABC (the full transcript can be viewed here). As expected, this was hardly the “conversation” from “both sides” that it was touted to be. For starters, as the Business & Media Institute reports, Obama’s ramblings added up to 60% of... »
ABC or OBC? Media Merge With Government
Based on the latest headlines from Drudge Report, ABC might as well change its name to OBC—Obama Broadcasting Company. Drudge reports that: ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House on June 24th. The network plans a primetime special—’Prescription for America’—originating from the East Room, exclude... »
Newsweek’s Hard-Hitting Investigative Reporting
It seems that Newsweek hasn’t had enough problems lately, so they’re trying to really shake up the status quo there. As an example of some of their latest hard-hitting investigative reporting, they report on why “cougars” crave American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. It’s bad enough that their reporting on political issues is a known... »