Media Ignore Conyers's Breathtaking DDT Ignorance
April 30th, 2007 7:33 AM
Imagine a conservative congressperson doing something this unhinged and not getting raked over the coals in the press (Wall Street Journal link requires subscription):
Tuesday was Africa Malaria Day, and Michigan Representative John Conyers marked the event by inviting something called the Pesticide Action Network to Capitol Hill to denounce DDT as an unsafe malaria intervention. What was he…
NYT Public Editor Defends Paper's Poor Coverage of Duke 'Rape
April 23rd, 2007 4:01 PM
When three white Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of raping a black stripper were finally declared innocent by the attorney general of North Carolina earlier this month, New York Times critics focused on the paper's lousy coverage of the case, including Times Watch (citing research by law writer Stuart Taylor Jr.) and most prominently Fox News anchor Brit Hume on his April 12 "Special…
Post-Imus, Free Speech Doesn't Mean Free Speech
April 18th, 2007 6:01 AM
From Todd Boyd, ESPN’s Page 2:Now
that disgraced radio talk-show host Don Imus has been booted, can we
finally get down to some “real talk” about the multiple issues embedded
in this racial theater? There is a lot to sort through here, but after
a week of debate centered around “nappy-headed hos,” half-assed
apologies, cries of censorship, and a curmudgeonly shock jock’s lame
attempt at being…
John Kerry Says CBS Radio Shouldn’t Have Fired Don Imus
April 17th, 2007 8:25 PM
Here’s a shocking story that seems guaranteed to not be covered by the mainstream media: Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) told NY1 News that Don Imus shouldn’t have been fired by CBS Radio as a result of his recent statements about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.I kid you not.Although the interview is not scheduled to be broadcast until Tuesday evening, a partial transcript was posted at…
Post's Kurtz: Reporting on Duke Lacrosse 'Irresponsible
April 16th, 2007 2:06 PM
In an online chat at washingtonpost.com today, media reporter Howard Kurtz condemned the media's rush to judgment in 2006 in the Duke lacross rape allegations."If you go back and lok at the coverage of 13 months ago, knowing what we know now, teh tone of much of it was irresponsible," wrote Kurtz in response to a question from Floris, Va. Later in response to a question from Portland, Ore.,…
New Black Panther Party Leader Calls Michelle Malkin a ‘Political Pr
April 15th, 2007 1:48 PM
In the midst of the Don Imus/Rutgers women’s basketball team controversy, one would think that calling a woman a prostitute, or any similar epithet on the air, would be so inexcusable that it would meet with extraordinary media outrage.After all, if you did a Google news search of the name Don Imus, it would generate almost 15,000 stories about the controversial radio host. The phrase "Nappy-…
