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ABC 'Blotter' Blog Gives Early Platform to Gun Control Group
Update added at bottom of post.In a 2:30 p.m. posting, well before details about the weapons used in the tragic Virginia Tech shootings were available, ABC News's Brian Ross devoted a "Blotter" blog entry to a gun control advocate's talking points. Ross didn't make room for any gun rights advocates or find a critic to suggest the Brady Center was callously capitalizing on a tragedy to further…
Liberal Bias Invades NFL: Olbermann to Anchor NBC Football Show
According to TV Newser, football fans can probably expect some liberal bias in the upcoming NFL season. Keith Olbermann, the reliably left-wing MSNBC host, will become the co-anchor of NBC’s "Football Night in America":MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is returning to network sports after a six year absence as a co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. "This will, obviously, be great fun and a great…
BBC Promotes Darkly-Comedic, 'Poignant' Short Story about Baghdad Came
The BBC wouldn’t run a dramatic TV movie about an Iraq war hero and also banned all message board entries linking to controversial anti-terror blog Little Green Footballs, but April 17, the network tops itself. The London Times reports that the Beeb will feature “Weddings and Beheadings,” a short story by an acclaimed Pakistani-British author, which is about an Iraqi camera man who “takes a…
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)