On D-Day Anniversary, Google Memorializes... Tetris
June 6th, 2009 8:29 AM
On June 6, 1944, the crucial Normandy Landings that formed the spearhead of the Allied invasion of Nazi held Europe occurred. D-Day ultimately led to the victory of the Allies over the despotic Nazi regime. Now here we are on June 6, 2009 and, in its inimitable way, Google has decided to memorialize the important occasion by adding an image on its homepage depicting... the computer game Tetris…
Google Finally Recognizes Memorial Day With Holiday Logo
May 25th, 2009 11:52 PM
As NewsBusters has regularly reported, internet behemoth Google, despite recognizing such important American events as Giovanni Schiaparelli and Charles Darwin's birthdays with special logos, has never done anything to commemorate Memorial Day.Well, whether they succumbed to the pressure, or are feeling more patriotic with Barack Obama in the White House, Google has finally done something to…
The Press Continues to Obsess Over Obama's 'Distractions
April 9th, 2009 11:50 PM
Reuters is only the latest wire service to go way over the top in taking pity on President Obama for having to deal with nasty things that intervene to disturb Dear Leader's apparent solitude.At the same time, Reuters seems to be characterizing the situations in Iran and North Korea as "distractions" that are equivalent to that being posed by the Somali pirates.I don't know how else you can…
British Enviro Adviser Calls for Halving UK’s Population; US Media V
March 31st, 2009 11:02 AM
There is plenty of evidence that many environmental activists are, at bottom, dangerous extremists who have deluded themselves into believing that the earth's population must be radically reduced if humanity is to survive. There is also growing evidence that this far-out viewpoint is more widely accepted among so-called mainstream environmentalists than the establishment media would have us…
Just In Time For 'Earth Hour': Americans Care Less Than Ever About Glo
March 26th, 2009 3:57 PM
Gallup has issued two polls in the past couple of weeks showing that the reality is breaking through the non-stop, years-long propaganda blitz known properly known as the Great Global Warming Hoax (characterized by me since January 2007 as globaloney): On March 11, the pollster told us that "Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed…
AP's 'Name That Party' Twist: Disgraced PA Judges' Dem Party ID Disapp
February 14th, 2009 6:55 AM
This "Name That Party" situation has many of the usual elements. There are several stories about two Democratic judges involved in criminal behavior in Pennsylvania, and, with one exception, they "somehow" don't get around to identifying their party. But this saga is different for two reasons: The crimes to which the judges have pleaded guilty involve "thousands" of juveniles. In one lonely…
Google Flags NewsBusters and Other Conservative Sites 'Harmful
January 31st, 2009 1:35 PM
In the past several hours, I have received multiple e-mail messages from readers claiming that internet behemoth Google, for a brief period of time Saturday morning, flagged a number of conservative websites including NewsBusters, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Fox News as possibly harmful to computers.UPDATE: This is NOT a problem exclusive to conservative websites. NewsBusters has reported…
Google: Conservative Website Lucianne Harmful To Computers
December 21st, 2008 9:13 PM
Internet behemoth Google on Sunday declared the conservative website Lucianne, founded by Lucianne Goldberg, harmful to computers.Oddly, as NewsBusters reported, the same thing happened to the conservative website "American Spectator" almost exactly a year ago. If you do a regular Google web search of the word "Lucianne," the following is the first result:
Google Plans To Use Editorial Judgments In Search Results
December 14th, 2008 11:34 AM
Despite conservative grumblings of liberal bias, Internet behemoth Google has for years claimed its search engine exclusively uses algorithms to provide accurate and impartial results for those interested in finding out information concerning a particular subject.Google's CEO Eric Schmidt affirmed this contention while speaking to a group of conservative bloggers during the Republican National…
Obama's Preposterous 'Create or Save' Jobs Promise Was Never Uttered D
December 7th, 2008 10:43 AM
Those who thought that President-elect Obama's pre-Thanksgiving promise to "create or save jobs," appropriately satirized by Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters on November 24, might have been another one of the Oh-So-(in)Articulate One's "inartful" statements should know that it has become standard fare in Obama speeches.In related news, Uncle Sam told us Friday that over 136 million seasonally…
Harry Reid's 'Smelly Tourists' Comment: No Republican or Conservative
December 3rd, 2008 10:20 AM
Some think that Harry Reid must live a charmed life. After all, he asserted last year that the Iraq War "is lost." Now it looks like victory, at least to seasoned on-the-ground observers like Michael Yon. He has fretted over how fossil fuels like coal make us sick. Never mind that life expectancy, largely, uh, fueled by industrialization and its accompanying higher living standards, continues to…
Extra-Legal Homeschooler Harassment: Happens Often, But It's Not News
November 26th, 2008 1:14 PM
This is not a promo for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) per se, as there may be other similarly effective organizations out there to help families who homeschool their kids. But if the following examples don't prove that homeschooled children and their parents need to have access to legal help at a moment's notice, I don't know what will. I will present blood-boiling excerpts…
What Time of Year Is It? (Following 4 Years of Media Use of 'Holidays
November 25th, 2008 9:52 PM
As the Christmas shopping season went into full swing in 2005, I sensed that journalists in general have a strong preference for using the term "holiday shopping" instead of "Christmas shopping" when covering business and commerce, but that when it came to people losing their jobs, they preferred to describe layoffs as relating to "Christmas." My instincts have been proven correct, as you can see…