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Flashback: Liberals Used 'Fairness Doctrine' to 'Chill' Conservative R
Liberal Democrats and their allies on the Left are eager to restore the "Fairness Doctrine," which would empower the FCC to regulate the content of broadcast media, including talk radio. Besides their addiction to government regulation, the Left may be remembering "the good old days" where they used the "Fairness Doctrine" for partisan advantage in the 1960s.Former CBS News President Fred…
Half of Newspaper Articles Contain One or More Errors
A soon to be released study by the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication will report that almost half of the articles published by America's daily newspapers contain one or more factual errors, and that less than two percent end up being corrected. Of course, as Glenn Reynolds wrote of this news, "This research won't surprise many blog-readers." Maybe so, but…
Open Thread
Possible talking point: Huge turnaround on Wall Street yesterday, Fed cut discount rate this morning, stocks look to explode to the upside today. Is the correction -- which did reach the magic ten percent level yesterday before the turnaround -- over?
French Press Agency: Fred Thompson 'Harbors Dark World View
I thought it was those French existentialists who were supposed to be the gloomy ones, morosely sipping their espressos at Left Bank cafés while contemplating the end of everything. But according to Agence France Presse, of all people it's Fred Thompson who wallows in the Slough of Despond.Check out this line that AFP, which has an odd corporate status by which it is partially controlled and…
Were CNN Poll Questions Weighted Against Surge Report
CNN released a poll on the 16th that claims that 53% of Americans don't trust the U.S. Military assessment of what is going on in Iraq and that 72% won't have their mind changed on their view of the war no matter what General Petraeus says about the surge next month. But if one reviews the questions of the poll and the method by which it was conducted is considered (at least the only hint of that…
Flashback: On Election Night 2000, NBC News Staffers Were 'All Cheerin
The MSNBC staffers who booed President Bush in 2003 were just following the tradition set in 2000 when those at the NBC News flagship cheered on Al Gore. In the wake of Joe Scarborough's revelation Thursday morning that on his first day at MSNBC, on the night of President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, “people in the newsroom...were booing the President basically from the beginning to…
Say What? Hollywood Hot for Rights to Conservative's Book
Here's something you don't see that often: The major movie studios are engaged in a bidding war over a book written by someone who served in the military and is...an outspokenly conservative Republican.For all we know, this could turn into the sham that was Tom Clancy's "Sum of All Fears," but still, this is a nice change from the usual Hollywood baying for gay cowboys eating pudding.[T]here's a…
TIME Falsely Claims the Abortion Pill is 'Safe
Report ignores evidence that abortion is linked to numerous health and safety risks, and that the abortion pill may be even more psychologically devastating than surgical abortion. Also, what about the 500,000 pre-born babies killed by RU-486 in the U.S. alone?
ABC News Promotes Bisexuality for Young Women
No mention of moral qualms or health risks, just 'true sexuality.'
Out This Weekend: High School Musical
The squeaky-clean first movie was a smash hit. When will Hollywood learn that films without sex and obscene language frequently sell like hotcakes?
The World According to the TV Critics
Showtime's new series, Californication, blatantly and obscenely blasphemes Christianity and insults the Catholic Church – and not a single major media critic even notices.