AP: Tough Immigration Laws to Blame for Infant Death

January 27th, 2008 9:56 AM
You're in a country illegally, and your infant child is very ill. Waddya do? Well, being the person that I am, I'd do anything to ensure the well-being and life of my child. Possibly being deported would be a distant concern when compared to my child. Guess I'm just weird like that: Edgar Castorena had diarrhea for 10 days(!) and counting, and the illegal immigrant parents of the 2-month-old…

AP Ignores Party Affiliation of Democrat Who Lied About Sex Under Oath

January 25th, 2008 5:48 PM
Remember ten years ago when staunch defenders of President Bill Clinton conceded that, yes, Bill Clinton lied under oath, but it was a lie about sex, and hence not an impeachable offense? [Speaking of which, January 27 will be the 10 year anniversary of Hillary Clinton's famous "vast right wing conspiracy" charge.]Well, now Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) is facing mounting pressure to resign…

Old Media and This Week's Markets: Who Knows They're Up -- Quite a Bit

January 25th, 2008 9:28 AM
The tone of this week's reporting on the US stock markets would lead you to believe that even though Wednesday and Thursday were pretty good days, the markets are down for the week. That's completely wrong. The Dow is up 279 points (2.3%): How about the broader S&P 500? It's up almost 27 points (or 2.0%):

The Latest Media Scam

January 24th, 2008 6:17 PM
Left wing think tank hatchet reportingThe Establishment Media's Weapon of ChoiceAnd you thought only the New York Times was engaged in not-for-profit journalism. Behold the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), who on Wednesday made headlines across the nation with their report -- co-authored with the Fund for Independence in Journalism (FIJ) -- entitled "Iraq - The War Card: Orchestrated Deception…

AP's Fetus Fixation: News Wire Fails to Call Stillborn Baby a Baby

January 24th, 2008 10:19 AM
It's a sad and horrifying story enough as it is, yet the Associated Press surely has compounded the grief for a Texas couple with its January 23 story, "Lawsuit: Stillborn Was Put in Laundry," excerpted below (h/t NB reader Tracy Zeeb):FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A couple filed a lawsuit against a hospital alleging that it sent their stillborn fetus's body with dirty laundry to the cleaners.

AP Headline on Padilla Sentence: No Name or Crime Mentioned

January 24th, 2008 10:17 AM
It's hard not to think that there is lingering Old Media disappointment that Jose Padilla didn't beat the rap. One example supporting that belief is the coverage (bolds are mine) of Padilla's sentencing, along with the supporting no-info headline, by the Associated Press's Curt Anderson. You also have to wonder if AP is trying to have the story escape future search engine inquiries, as the AP's…

Detroit Mayor Sex Scandal Revealed, But Not That He's a Democrat

January 24th, 2008 9:22 AM
Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was at age 31 the youngest elected Mayor in the history of Detroit, the Motor City. Now, at 38, he is also the Vice President of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors as well as that organization's representative to the Democratic National Committee. He also seems to have a problem with appropriate behavior... then lies about it to try to cover it up. But one…

AP Touts 'Nonpartisan' Group -- Headed by Clinton's Speechwriter

January 24th, 2008 8:39 AM

Outlets Disguise Agenda of Ex-Journalist's Group as Iraq 'Lies' Hyped

January 24th, 2008 5:55 AM
AP, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times on Wednesday all promoted a “study” by a couple of affiliated far-left groups, supposedly documenting “935 false statements” about Iraq made by Bush officials, but in hyping the proof of “lies” which led to war, the news outlets disguised the ideology of the groups -- led by a former ABC and CBS reporter/producer -- and how many of the “false” statements were…

AP Reports 'Bush Lied' Study Funded by Ultra-leftist George Soros

January 23rd, 2008 10:57 AM
Video update posted below.Well, the AP has done it again. They have given us leftist propaganda and painted it as news. This time they have published the results of a "study" that claims that "Bush lied" in the run-up to Iraq and somehow the AP forgot to mention that the organization that released this study was funded by extreme leftist George Soros, who has spent billions funding the Democrat…

AP: Fans Flames of Race Hatred With Focus on MLKing/Robert E. Lee Day

January 22nd, 2008 1:59 PM

Gun Control: A Tale of Two Homicides

January 21st, 2008 7:02 PM

AP Talks MLK's Forgotten 'Complexity' Forgets his Plagiarism & Communi

January 21st, 2008 11:34 AM
On the national holiday that celebrates the birth of famed civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the AP decided to remind us all that there was more to King than the popularized view of him affords. AP says that it is a shame that King has been "frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message." Who can disagree with this? After all, very often…

UK Organ Donation Controversy Barely Noticed by US Old Media

January 20th, 2008 11:50 AM
About a week ago, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested in a UK Telegraph column that allowing hospitals to harvest organs from dead patients without their prior consent or their families' post-mortem consent might be a good idea. Mr. Brown's occasion for bringing up the topic was telling, and perhaps explains why Brown's proposal got very little coverage in the US:This year will be the…