Auletta of the New Yorker: NY Times News Coverage Not Liberal
June 27th, 2006 8:12 PM
You're having a first conversation with someone. Alright, maybe you don't agree with him, but he seems rational. Then, out of the blue, he blurts something so strange, so disconnected from reality, that you say to yourself 'whoah! - who is this guy?' And you go back and rethink everything else he had said in light of his suddenly-exposed madness.That's what is was like watching Chris Matthews…
CBS News: If He's a Crook, He Must Be a Republican
May 27th, 2006 4:25 PM
Congressman William Jefferson is the Democrat from Louisiana whose Capitol Hill office was raided by the Justice Department in search of evidence pertaining to bribery allegations.
Not according to CBS News, however, which today identifies Mr. Jefferson as "the Louisiana Republican."
Perhaps the network has bought into the Dean-Pelosi-Reid fiction that if there's corruption involved, it must…
WaPo's Milbank: Senator Sessions an Angry 'Country Tough
May 24th, 2006 4:54 PM
Imagine that Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank were profiling a Democrat who was as steadfastly liberal as Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is conservative. The column virtually writes itself. We can imagine the liberal described as "putting principle above expediency", "courageous," perhaps even "speaking truth to power."But when it comes to a conservative such as Sessions, that…
