CNN Goes to the Dogs: Promoting Dog Food You Can Eat

Ken Shepherd

CNN Promotes Food Industry for a Change

The cable network takes a break from barking up the wrong tree on industry regulation and personal responsibility.
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread: Reutergate

The hot story in the blog world today is the story of Adnan Hajj, a photographer for the Reuters news service who has been exposed as faking shots in his work, most famously, a photograph of a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon in which he inserted fake smoke into the picture to make it look as though Israel was targeting civilians.Use this thread to post relevant information about the story from blogs…
Matthew Sheffield

Cindy Sheehan's Back, and the AP Still Thinks She's News

Lyford Beverage

Alec Baldwin: Al Gore Was Gang Raped By Cheney, O’Connor, and Baker

Given the shock by media members over how many Americans still believe Saddam had WMD before the March 2003 invasion as reported here and here, doesn’t it seem odd that there hasn’t been an MSM article scolding folks who still believe George Bush stole the presidential election in 2000? After all, if the Associated Press can suggest that Americans are deluded for not believing its WMD "facts”,…
Noel Sheppard

AP Scolds Stupid Americans For Still Believing Saddam Had WMD

It’s one thing when an obviously deluded shill suggests that Americans are stupid because they disagree with him as reported by NewsBusters Saturday. However, it is quite another thing when the largest wire service in the country does it.Yet, that’s exactly what transpired when the Associated Press published a report Sunday evening entitled “Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq Had WMD”: “Half of…
Noel Sheppard

CNN Puts A Castro on the Payroll

What better way for CNN to show where it stands on the issues of the day than to officially put Castro's daughter on the payroll as a contributor? Jon Friedman delivers a slap to CNN for this obvious attempt to position itself as the network with the most communist insight. You have to wonder exactly what journalistic verities Alina Fernandez brings to the job. Granted, she is the host of a radio…
Mithridate Ombud

Conyers Hints at Impeachment in Report Citing Pantheon of Leftist Medi

As liberally biased and prone to sniffing out conservative and Republican wrongdoing as many of the larger media organizations are, there actually is a more insane wing of the left-wing media made up of nutjob bloggers and "news" web sites. This leftist press has been busily humming along the past six years, churning out conspiracy theories wild enough to make saner people's heads spin,…
Matthew Sheffield

Globe Columnist: Ashamed of Hiroshima, America Was Awaiting 9/11 Payba

Mark Finkelstein

28:1? Curry Imagines Worst in Wake of Oilfield Shutdown

Mark Finkelstein

WashPost Asks Gay Democratic Virginia Legislator for Help with Story

Tim Graham

Cokie Roberts Shocks George Stephanopoulos: Lamont Victory Disaster Fo

Noel Sheppard

Reutergate Is News Everywhere But in the (formerly) Mainstream Media

UPDATE: Go to Matt Sheffield's open thread for current developments.__________________________________Last night's report by Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs that a "Beirut burning" photo that was clearly and clumsily doctored with Photoshop editing tools had made it way onto the wires from Reuters has morphed into what must be considered a full-blown scandal that should, by rights,…
Tom Blumer

Washington Post 'Zeitgeist' Compares Mel Gibson to Hezbollah, Ahmadine

Tim Graham