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New Yorker's Coll: Free Speech 'Being Weaponized' Against Journalism

December 9th, 2020 3:31 PM

The New Yorker's Steve Coll unashamedly presented free speech as a threat to journalism during an interview on Monday's Morning Joe show.

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Whiny Morning Joe Bemoans Loss of Lib Media Stranglehold on News

December 8th, 2020 7:30 AM

Morning Joe's got a bad case of nostalgia for the good old days of the liberal media's near-total control over the news. As Kasie Hunt put it on today's show, back in the day, there were: "The media . . . was a relatively focused, narrow group, and if they made decisions together could actually impact things."

New Yorker Compares Trump to Segregationist George Wallace

December 6th, 2020 4:43 PM

The New Yorker dedicated a full article to attempting to compare President Donald Trump to George Wallace.

170 Media Outlets Join CJR, ‘The Nation’ Climate Coverage Plan

Business
August 30th, 2019 11:25 AM
Objectivity and truth-telling are no longer the most “sacred” responsibilities of the news media, at least according to the far-left The Nation magazine. It’s now … climate change. “We see Covering Climate Now as a fulfillment of journalism’s most sacred responsibilities, which are to inform people and foster constructive debate about common challenges and opportunities,” The Nation wrote on Aug…

Lefty Journalists, Climate Activists to ‘Transform’ Climate Coverage

Business
April 19th, 2019 1:41 PM
Columbia Journalism School wants “a new playbook” for journalism in a “1.5 degree world” because “we believe the news business must also transform.” So they’ve handpicked a selection of global warming alarmists and far-left media to instruct the media how to change. Don’t expect that change to be toward balance or giving climate skeptics any air time. But be sure to look for major media to join…

Cronyism: Same Donor Funds Anti-Exxon Reporting, Group That Awards It

Business
August 31st, 2016 3:45 PM
Want to win an award for “distinguished environmental journalism?” Just make sure to work for an organization that gets anti-oil and gas funding from the same source as the prize and the university awarding that prize. Oh ... and one of the judges for the panel tasked with picking a winner.

Unsettling Science: The Media’s Legal Climate Crusade Against Exxon

Business
April 22nd, 2016 10:18 AM
Galileo, the famous Italian astronomer and scientist, once said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Tell that to the UN IPCC and the news media. Presumably, Galileo would find the use of the so-called “scientific consensus” on global warming as the basis to call for prosecution of dissenters unsettling. Everyone should…

Fmr. WashPost Editor Steve Coll Invokes Taliban in Critique of Hobby L

July 3rd, 2014 12:21 AM
If you’re choosing one person who best represents America’s journalistic establishment, it’d be hard to top Steve Coll, a former Washington Post reporter and managing editor who’s now dean of Columbia University’s journalism school; a member of the Pulitzer Prize board; and a staff writer for the New Yorker. On Wednesday, Coll posted a piece on the New Yorker’s website in which he argued that…

Poetic Honors: Liberal Journalism School Gives NBC's Richard Engel an

September 25th, 2013 11:02 PM
TV Newser reported NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is the 2013 recipient of the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. “From the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring and the West Bank, Richard Engel’s courage and integrity inform his reporting,” said Steve Coll, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School and a former editor of The Washington Post. This is…

NPR Isn't 'Left Wing,' It 'Leads to a More Informed Electorate' and 'B

November 9th, 2010 5:07 PM
The public-radio show "On The Media" explored the debate over defunding public broadcasting on Saturday -- but utterly stepped around any evidence from certain conservative media watchdog groups that NPR or PBS have a liberal bias. Host Brooke Gladstone perfectly characterized how the NPR elite arrogantly conceive of their mission: some say they have a liberal bias, but they are merely seekly…