Stossel: Ostracized After Defecting from Liberalism, Sees NYTimes Doub
On Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former ABC News anchor John Stossel -- now with Fox Business -- came aboard to discuss the New York Times's recent attack on him for speaking in front of the conservative/libertarian group Americans for Prosperity. After charging that the Times never showed interest in his speeches to conservative groups before he joined Fox Business, the former 20/20 host…
AP, Covering ACORN La. Raid, Acts As If Only One Office Was Videotaped
Did you know that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe and partner Hannah Giles made only one undercover video showing ACORN employees willing to assist them in illegal and human rights-violating activities? Absent prior knowledge, that's the impression you would have upon reading the Associated Press's coverage of the latest development in the ACORN saga, namely the raid on the organization's New…
Tea Partiers 'Stormed' Congress, But Pro-ObamaCare 'Activists' Simply
Word choice can be a subtle but effective way in which the media colorfully editorialize on the news, skewing the perceptions of readers in one direction or another. Take Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who did masterful job in skewing his 19-paragaph-long page A4 story "Activists bring 'tea party' to Capitol Hill" in favor of ObamaCare proponents while smearing conservatives in a negative light…
Cash Crunch, Press Silence: As ObamaCare Advances In Congress, Uncle S
The August Congressional Budget Office budget forecast for the fiscal year that began last month says that Uncle Sam will take in $2.264 trillion from October 2009 through September 2010. That's an increase of 7.6% over fiscal 2009's intake of $2.105 trillion. Though it won't be official until Tim Geithner's crew releases its Monthly Treasury Statement next week, it's virtually certain that the…
Campaign Dirty Trick Targeted Gay GOP Alderman Candidate, MSM Fail to
An openly gay city council candidate is targeted by malicious campaign literature suggesting he may be a pedophile and subsequently loses his bid for alderman.It's the type of story highlighting bigotry and homophobia that the mainstream media would love to trumpet and it happened just days ago in the 2009 city elections in Annapolis, Md. Unfortunately for Scott Bowling, he's a Republican in the…
Wholly Ineffective: Lefty Boycott of Whole Foods Has No Noticeable Fin
Here's news you can virtually guarantee won't get noticed by what remains of the establishment media. Whole Foods (WFMI) announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30 yesterday. The quarter closed about 50 days after outraged leftists called for a boycott of the grocery chain to retaliate for a Wall Street Journal op-ed written by CEO John Mackey. In that column, Mackey…
SF Chronicle Fails to Report that Tax-Cheat Mayor is a Democrat
The Democratic mayor of Oakland, CA and his wife recently admitted to failing to pay $239,000 in taxes since 2005. The San Francisco Chronicle covered the story, but made no mention of the mayor's party, in striking contrast to coverage of recent ethics violations by Republicans in the state."We owe taxes," Mayor Ron Dellums, pictured right, bluntly said in a statement on Tuesday. "The matter is…
It's About Time: AP Admits Ford 'Has Benefited From Customer Goodwill
Well, it only took them the better part of a year to pick up on what yours truly first noted in early February (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), and what anyone with eyes has surely known for months. But the Associated Press has finally acknowledged it -- or at least it's the first time I've seen the wire service do so. In the eighth paragraph of their article covering October's auto sales, AP…
WaPo Warns GOP's 'Ideological Fissures Loom,' Sees No Similar Trouble
This afternoon, the Washington Post's Web site offers readers two looks at how the Democrats and the GOP will proceed following the 2009 elections, but, surprise, surprise, the paper only forsees internecine squabbles for the GOP."Republicans revel in wins but ideological fissures loom," the headline to Washington Post staffer Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon's news piece filed at 2:30 p.m. EST…
Guess Who Said Which Biased Statement: CBS's Katie Couric or DNC Chair
Identical Twin Statements Earlier today, Media Research Center President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell announced this year's Dewey Defeats Truman Awards for incompetent political reporting. Also today, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tim Kaine issued a statement on last night's election results. The similarities between the DNC Chair's…
Bozell Announces 'Dewey Defeats Truman Awards' for 'Incompetent Politi
"Last night was a triumph for the conservative movement and repudiation to those who said Republicans had to move away from the conservative ideology to achieve victory," Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell declared today."I hereby grant the Dewey Defeats Truman Awards for the most incompetent political reporting of the year to the following journalists for…
ABCNews.com: 53% Vote on Same-sex Marriage in Maine a 'Narrow Victory
President Barack Obama's 2008 popular vote victory, roughly 53% of the electorate, should be considered "narrow" in retrospect, perhaps. After all, ABC News editors consider a similar margin of victory for same-sex marriage opponents in Maine last night to be "narrow."The headline and subheader for Devin Dwyer's November 4 story:
MSNBC's Scarborough, Mitchell See New 'Litmus Test' In Scozzafava Repu
"A test that uses a single indicator to prompt a decision."That's how the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "litmus test" when it's used as a political metaphor (emphasis mine). That makes no difference to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Joe Scarborough, who see a new "litmus test" for the GOP developing out of the New York 23rd Congressional District special election.…
Wait, I Thought It Was Over; AP Blurb Says Recession 'Will Likely Take
Laurie Kellman, call your office, check your e-mail, and tap in to your Twitter. The Associated Press reporter didn't get the memo that recession is supposedly over, and that at a minimum you shouldn't be writing as if it will be with us for a while. She also erred in citing the weak economy as a bad thing for Democrats. The New York Times told us about a week ago that a bad economy is a good…
