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‘Oprah's Doctor' and CNN's Paula Zahn Lament Conservative ‘Nihilis
As part of their week-long series of specials previewing their upcoming presidential debates with YouTube, CNN interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on Wednesday evening. Oz and host Paula Zahn discussed the media-driven "crisis" in health care. Zahn asked Oz, "what is the answer to piercing the bureaucracy. That is certainly something you can't fix overnight." Oz's answer: "Well, one of our biggest…
AP Leaves Armitage Out of Initial Story on Plame Case Dismissal
Patrick Ishmael of "NewsBuckit" has an answer for Noel's question about how the media will cover the Plame case dismissal.Ishmael found an initial reports first left out any mention of Plame name leaker Richard Armitage.*:
Valerie Plame's Suit Against White House Dismissed, How Will Media Rep
A federal judge has just dismissed Valerie Plame Wilson's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.Will this be the lead story of this evening's newscasts? Regardless of the answer, the Washington Post reported moments ago (emphasis added throughout):U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about…
Upgrade Update
Author pictures, as you can obviously see, are back again. I had to rewrite the code from scratch and am testing them in the blog posts only.If I feel confident in the code, user avatars will come back in the comments but a two restrictions: 1) pics can be no bigger than 3kb in size, 2) they must be exactly 85 pixels high if you don't want them to appear stretched out. Private messaging is…
Buying Meat Worse For Environment Than SUVs
Forget about carbon credits. SUV owners should just stop buying meat, and all their enviro-guilt will disappear faster than a Big Mac placed in front of former President Bill Clinton. Such was the finding of a Japanese study published by Blackwell Synergy's Animal Science Journal, and reported at New Scientist Wednesday (emphasis added throughout): A kilogram of beef is responsible for more…
Politics Imitates South Park. Will Media Cover Obama's Sex Ed for Tots
A Democratic presidential contender has hinted that he thinks some form of sex ed is appropriate for the nation's five-year olds.I'm not exactly holding my breath for media outrage or at least interest in the topic, but I though Good Lt. at the "Jawa Report" has some good observations about how yet again, life seems to be imitating South Park:Amazing. Simply amazing. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,…
WashPost Leaves Out Party Label of Pol Charged with Running Brothel
Say you write for or edit the metro section of a major metropolitan newspaper and you have a juicy story of a local ex-mayor who was arrested for running a brothel. It's right on the heels of the Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) prostitution scandal and the politician in the local story in question was once a sheriff's deputy, clearly no stranger to anti-prostitution laws.Party affiliation is just…
Yet Another Rupert Murdoch Hit Piece
It seems you can't swing a dead cat these days without whacking a Rupert Murdoch hit piece. It must have been the New York Times' turn at the plate so to speak Thursday, and writer Richard Perez-Pena was more than up to the challenge. After an introduction of Peter R. Kann, the Chairman and CEO of Dow Jones, the company Murdoch is trying to buy, Perez-Pena appeared loaded for bear (emphasis…