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A Hundred Days of Love
Three months have made zero difference in the major media's ardor.
April 29th, 2009 12:00 AM
'Torturing' Terrorists for National Security? Bad. Torturing Teenagers
The networks are shocked about dubious 'torture' for security information but refuse to discuss why Hollywood promotes its use.
April 29th, 2009 12:00 AM
LAT Minimizes Child Abuse, More Bothered By 'Conservatives' Exposing I
On Sunday (4/26/09), the Los Angeles Times finally got around to looking into the issue of Planned Parenthood workers caught on hidden camera appearing to violate the law. Workers at numerous clinics around the country appear to be illegally advising girls they believe to be underage to conceal statutory rape. The Times profiled the hero of these undercover busts, Lila Rose, a 20-year-old student…
April 28th, 2009 8:06 PM
CNN on Specter Switch: GOP 'Far to the Right;' Democrats in 'Center
During the first hour and a half following Senator Arlen Specter’s announcement that he was switching from the Republican Party to the Democratic, CNN pushed the “big message” behind the defection, that “the Republican Party has moved so far to the right, that it is making itself uncompetitive in significant parts of the country, like the Northeast,” as the network’s senior political analyst Bill…
April 28th, 2009 6:33 PM
Morning Shows, NYT, USA Today Ignore Mary Ann Glendon/Notre Dame Devel
Imagine that former Vice President Dick Cheney was set to be honored next month at a Catholic university's commencement ceremony and news came down that another person to be honored at the same ceremony with a different award declined the honor, stating that she felt it inappropriate for the university to honor a man who believes in and furthered the use of torture by condoning waterboarding of…
April 28th, 2009 6:26 PM
CNN’s Sanchez on the Concept of Freedom in Specter Aftermath: 'What
Leave it to CNN host Rick Sanchez to unintentionally give us a moment of comedy in an afternoon cable news broadcast. On "CNN Newsroom" on April 28, Sanchez interviewed Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., about the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter, Pa., from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. He asked the senator from South Carolina if Specter was correct in his analysis that the conservative…
April 28th, 2009 5:17 PM
Newspaper Circs: Another Serious Drop; NYT's Small Decline a Short-Ter
From Editor & Publisher yesterday (bold is mine):The Audit Bureau of Circulations released this morning the spring figures for the six months ending March 31, 2009, showing that the largest metros continue to shed daily and Sunday circulation -- now at a record rate.According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the…
April 28th, 2009 4:54 PM
WND: U.S. Regulatory Czar Nominee Wanted Net 'Fairness Doctrine
Here's Hoping - or - Wishful Thinking There are those who hang their First Amendment hats on President Barack Obama's statement that he isn't for reinstating the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine. These people are ignoring ever mounting examples of the censorious intent of this Administration on all things information.They…
April 28th, 2009 4:40 PM
Environmentalism Defines Virtue Down
Matt Philbin, managing editor of the Culture and Media Institute and the Business and Media Institute, wrote the following op-ed: Forget courage, thrift, fidelity or industry. Generosity? Humility? Fortitude? Honesty? Those are so 19th Century. According to Master Card, today's virtue resides in being eco-conscious. The latest in MasterCard's successful "priceless" series of ads features a…
April 28th, 2009 3:46 PM
AP Sensationalism: Worst-Case Scenario, Pandemic Will Claim 2 Million
An Associated Press story dated April 28 takes swine flu fears to a whole other level. A report datelined Washington by Ricardo Alonsozaldivar and Eileen Sullivan examined the worst-case scenario "if the swine flu gets out of control." "Two million dead," Alonsozaldivar and Sullivan wrote. "Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship.…
April 28th, 2009 3:34 PM
Maybe This Flu Isn't for the Birds, But the Last One Was
Watch the media also ignore the issue of border security.
April 28th, 2009 3:09 PM
Media Previously Painted Sen. Specter as 'Conservative' 'Grand Inquis
While the media are now painting turncoat Sen. Arlen Specter ( D-Pa.) as a Republican moderate who laments how the party has left him behind, a search through the Media Research Center's archives finds that the MSM have painted the Keystone State liberal anywhere from being a mere "conservative" to a traitorous Torquemada to pro-choicers.During the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in October…
April 28th, 2009 3:00 PM