Let’s see what BO and/or the Lame Stream Media has to ignore now. – AP phone bugging by the DOJ – Well, since it’s their own, the MSM will be on it like flies on Bovine Feces. – Gosnell – After being ignored, it may get 3 inches of a column space since he violated the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Freedom of the Press category.
Rotten journalism in The New York Times.
Your Editor has not commented much on he Boston Marathon bombing case — other than seriously mocking David Sirota on Twitter for his inane column expressing the hope that the bombers, when identified, would be white Americans — because of the very serious failures of American journalism in this whole case: it was difficult to [...]
What’s news?
Robert Stacey Stacy McCain has a story up concerning the value judgements of editors in determining “what’s news.” Dog Bites Man; Man Rapes Girl: Journalism and Other Crimes Posted on | April 11, 2013 | 11 Comments and 0 Reactions There is a basic rule of journalism — a rule that has nothing to do with politics [...]
The rubbish that passes for serious journalism
Church scandals likely to top agenda at ‘unprecedented’ meeting of popes By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News VATICAN CITY — It will be an unprecedented meeting of men and minds, a conversation almost without parallel. When Pope Francis meets the pope emeritus, as is expected perhaps as soon as Friday, he will become the [...]
Country music and babes? What could be better?
Of course, it’s not just Fox News; I’ve noticed that CNN and the Weather Channel babes are rockin’ the miniskirts and f(ornicate) me heels these days as well.
A Recto-Cranium Statement That Can Be Made Only In America
posted on February 12, 2013 by da Tagliare Robbery Victims Shooting Attackers Called ‘Alarming Trend’ There’s an alarming trend in Detroit that have some people worried. In the span of a week, two separate robberies were thwarted when the victims, who both had conceal carry permits and a gun, managed to defend themselves by shooting [...]
The story of the century
My older daughter texted me, saying, It’s a sad day when the news calls a 34 minute power outage at the Super Bowl the “story of the century.” Clearly 9/11, the war on terror, Iraq, and all those other tragedies were just a warm up to the real travesty of our time. I had to [...]
From around the blogroll
Well, of course this would never have happened before the election! From Robert Stacey Stacy McCain: A Scandal Too Far: Steve Capus Terminated as NBC News President Posted on February 2, 2013 The New York Times spins it this way: The longest-serving president of any of the three network news divisions, Steve Capus of NBC News, [...]
