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Post's Kurtz: Reporting on Duke Lacrosse 'Irresponsible
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.,…
Bill Maher's 'View': Church Going Old Ladies 'Enablers' to Religious V
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s "Real Time," appeared on the April 16 edition of "The View" to voice his opposition to all religion. Maher asserted that "pretty much all religion" is bad and all religion is "childish destructive nonsense." Co-host, Joy Behar inquired "What about people who just like to go to church, you know, the old ladies in my neighborhood who used to go and light a candle?" Maher…
Student Loan Providers 'Sound Like Drug Companies,' CNN Reporter Scold
'In the Money' report drags several industries through the mud while pushing for more government control of student loans.
WashPost Leaves Out That Gun/Suicide Study Funded by Anti-Gun Foundati
Update at bottom of page.Harvard researcher Matthew Miller released a study on April 10 that ties higher suicide rates with higher rates of firearm ownership. Six days later the Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam printed a five-paragraph brief in the paper's "Science Notebook" that cribbed heavily from the Harvard School of Public Health press release. Yet nowhere in his story was the fact that…
LA Times Staffer Wrong In Negating Abortion-Breast Cancer Link - Again
An April 12, 2007, article by Stephanie Simon in the Los Angeles Times claimed that "national cancer experts" have found no link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer (ABC = "Abortion-Breast Cancer").The truth:29 out of 41 worldwide studies reveal an ABC link. (See "The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link" by Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS)
Rosie O'Donnell: U.S. Has Killed ‘Hundreds of Thousands' of Innocent
The controversial host of ABC’s “The View,” Rosie O’Donnell, posted a peculiar rant at her blog Saturday that seemed to be two parts confession, and one part recognition that the firing of Don Imus might be an ominous portent for her career.To begin with, it certainly was no coincidence that she opened with a reference to the recently terminated radio host (emphasis added throughout):a huge…
Leo DiCaprio's New Global Warming Doc 'Won't Be Drowned Out' By 'Contr
Apparently, hearing both sides of the global warming debate is too much for Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. Rush & Malloy of New York’s Daily News reported that Leo doesn’t like "contrary" views in his “documentary” about global warming, “The 11th Hour.” After being part of an ABC special about “threats to the Earth,” Leo decided that dissent ist verboten! So now he’s making a real…