Rock the Vote Backs Fight Against Indiana Voter ID Law
Update/Clarification (Jan. 24): Ocean MacAdams of MTV News responds (see bottom of post) Politico's Ben Adler has a story today about Rock the Vote submitting a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of overturning a law requiring voters furnish photo identification before casting a ballot:
Media Ignore Anti-war Lawyer Keying Marine's Car
Since the media have promised the anti-war left really do support the troops, wouldn't it be news that an anti-war, self-described "radical leftist" was in court on Friday for angrily keying the car of an Iraq vet because he didn't like the military plates and USMC stickers? Jay Grodner keyed a $2400 side-to-side gash into Sgt. Mike McNulty's car. When confronted, Grodner berated McNulty, who was…
AP Talks MLK's Forgotten 'Complexity' Forgets his Plagiarism & Communi
On the national holiday that celebrates the birth of famed civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the AP decided to remind us all that there was more to King than the popularized view of him affords. AP says that it is a shame that King has been "frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message." Who can disagree with this? After all, very often…
Sixth Poll in a Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt to News Medi
For the sixth time in a year, a national survey has found many more Americans see a media bias to the left than to the right, and the latest poll released earlier this month by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, discovered “significantly declining percentages of Americans saying they believe all or most of media news reporting,” with MSNBC (at a piddling four percent) and PBS (three…
Albright Critical of Presidential Campaign Media Coverage; Blames Minn
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn’t impressed with the blow-by-blow horse race coverage of the primary season and blames the media.Albright revealed that to an audience January 19 at a Borders bookstore in Tysons Corner, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to promote her new book “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.”She said the media…
AP Writer Claims GOP is Avoiding 'Diverse' Nevada Electorate
Yesterday Newsbuster writer Seton Motley wrote a couple of articles about the blatant liberal bias that stinks up syndicated feeds and news reports coming out of the Associated Press. As a testimony to the truthfulness of Motley's articles I perused the headlines from the rapidly changing AP RSS feed of their top political news and found that the tone of the teasers were less than ingratiating…
Who is Angry in the Mitt Romney-AP's Glen Johnson Exchange
They May Have It BackwardsAccording to ABC News, it is Mitt. Riled! Angry Romney Rips ReporterSparks fly as Mitt Romney tells reporters lobbyists aren't running his campaign. According to anyone else who has watched the video, theirs is a difficult assessment with which to agree.As we stated when we posted the video last night (video below as well), the Associated Press' Glen Johnson angily…
Tobacco, Taxes Sunk McCain in 2000 S.C. Primary, Not Dirty Tricks
One of the American mainstream media's favorite John McCain memes is that South Carolina voters rejected the Arizona Republican in 2000 because of a baseless smear campaign about McCain's personal life. That bias is so infectious it's now a global pandemic, just witness this item from the January 18 edition of the London-based Financial Times: McCain hopes to avoid repeat of 2000For John McCain,…
AP's Glen Johnson Interrupts and Argues with Mitt Romney (Video
Greased Lightning Bias
Try as I might, the Associated Press's bias is outpacing my best efforts.
No sooner do I extensively examine their weak week that was than I am delivered more media manna from Heaven, on video no less.
[Thank you very much, DaBird -- loved your work with the Celtics.]
Below the fold, the Reporter (a term we use exceedingly loosely…
The Dis-Associated Press
The AP -- international, institutionalized biasTilting Leftward (and Often at Windmills)The Associated Press (AP) is the Hulking Monster of the news syndication business. Formed in May of 1846, The Syndicate has risen to currently consist of 243 news bureaus in 97 countries. They have over 3,000 journalists on staff. 121 countries avail themselves of what they have to offer. Their content…
