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Baltimore Sun Leaves Terrorism out of Nigerian Oil Violence
Foreign reporter Scott Calvert avoided 'terrorist' label for car-bombing, hostage-taking insurgency.
Open Thread
Today's startersMedia: Keith Olbermann wants a raise (despite still remaining in fourth-place). The champion of the people is gunning for $4 million a year. TV reporter Max Robbins says CNN is purportedly interested in hiring the left-wing commentator but I doubt that."Why did CNN and MSNBC give air time to David Duke? What purpose did it serve the viewers?" Media columnist Jon Friedman asks…
Liberal Extremism Doomed Air America's Success
This was certainly a bizarre headline to see in Monday’s New York Times: “After Bankruptcy Filing, Recriminations Fly at Air America.” Now, follow that up with these opening paragraphs (emphasis mine throughout):In its search for a new chief executive this past summer, Air America Radio interviewed seasoned media executives in an effort to revive the faltering network. One interview took a…
Behar's Person-of-the-Year Nominee: 'A Hitler Type, Like Donald Rumsfe
It was such a cheap play to the left-wing peanut gallery that it doesn't even pay to be disgusted. Discussing the "Time" magazine person of the year choice on "The View" this morning, yenta-in-residence Joy Behar blurted out:"You have to put like a Hitler type. Like you put Donald Rumsfeld there or something."When some in the audience began to jeer, Behar broke into a huge, mock-surprised smile…
Vieira To Hillary: Your Big-Government Plans 'More Imperative' Than Ev
That's Meredith Vieira beaming at Hillary Clinton on this morning's Today. Someone might suggest to Meredith that when trying to ingratiate oneself with Hillary, it's advisable to avoid words bringing "imperious" to mind. But if the execution was flawed, no one can deny the fervor with which Vieira endorsed Hillary's paean to big-government, 'It Takes A Village'. Here's how Vieira opened the…
Hanukkah for the Hellenized: NY Times Columnist Celebrates Cultural Im
"Put down the candles and step slowly away from the menorah." Reading her pay-per-view New York Times column of today, that's what I felt like shouting at Jennifer Michael Hecht. Hecht manages to turn the Festival of Light into a celebration of the rejection of traditional Judaism - and an odd bow in the direction of colonialism and cultural imperialism.Hanukkah celebrates "a revolution against…