Bias Without Borders: AP and Taiwanese Elections
March 7th, 2007 12:10 AM
A reader with a Taiwanese IP address writes us with a tip about bias from the AP regarding a particular candidate in the presidential election on the island nation, Annette Lu:The opening paragraph of this news article uses the phrase "whom China has called 'insane' and the 'scum of the nation'". What does Lu have anything to do with PRC (mainland China) and deserve to be called insane and scum…
GMA’s Sawyer ‘Grills’ Syrian Dictator on Shania Twain, Video Gam
February 5th, 2007 2:51 PM
As already noted on NewsBusters, ABC’s Diane Sawyer threw softballs to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in an interview for Monday's "Good Morning America." However, GMA featured a section segment that was, amazingly, even worse. In the piece, the hard-hitting journalist probed the dictator about pertinent issues such as his favorite movies ("Pursuit of Happyness"), music (Shania Twain and Faith…
Newsweek’s Zakaria Slams Bush’s Attempts to Spread Democracy
January 22nd, 2007 10:34 AM
There’s so much to find offensive about Fareed Zakaria’s article in this week’s Newsweek that it’s tough to know where to begin. Put simply, the piece stated rather strongly that President Bush is responsible for a declining rate of democracy around the world.Of course, one study that Zakaria cited to prove this premise “points out that 2006 was a bad year for liberty, under attack from creeping…
China Moves to Ban Anonymous Blogging
October 25th, 2006 1:32 AM
This story from the PRC's propaganda wire, Xinhua won't likely get much play in the leftist world which believes that Chimpybushitlerhalliburtonfoleyisgay is the real threat to world-wide free speech. China is continuing its crackdown on opposing free speech, this time,
signaling that it will move toward forcing anyone who wants to make a
blog do so under their real names, making it easier to…
