Los Angeles Times
Facts, Reasoning Out The Window In Dumb LA Times Editorial
July 7th, 2007 9:49 PM
An editorial in Friday's Los Angeles Times (7/6/07) is one of the dumbest in quite a while - and that's saying a lot. Writing on the recently disclosed affair of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, the Times ridiculously opines that "it seems that Democrats' sexual shenanigans do more damage to their political careers than Republicans' do." The Times cheekily writes that the "…
AP/LAT Don't Mention Thompson Abortion Lobbying Claims Are Made by Hil
July 7th, 2007 2:14 AM
The AP, taking their cue from the new because-she-said-so story offered by the L.A.Times, has run with a short clip on a story that claims Fred Thompson was working as a lobbyist for an abortion agency in 1991, giving the hearsay evidence against him but not offering the meat of his against the claim. The result is that the AP offers more "evidence" against Thompson than it does for him making it…
Global Warming and Environmentalists Blamed for Lake Tahoe Wildfires
June 26th, 2007 11:35 AM
Depending on which newspaper you read Tuesday morning, the wildfires in the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada were either caused by global warming or environmentalists.I kid you not.In Northern California, just a few hours from the devastation, the number one paper in the region, the San Francisco Chronicle, chose to blame the fires on overdevelopment in Tahoe, and, of course, global…
Media Blame America For China's CO2 Emissions
June 21st, 2007 6:49 PM
When it was announced Tuesday that China surpassed the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, NewsBusters asked, “Will Media Notice?”In reality, the answer is a mixed windbag, with most press outlets totally ignoring the revelation, and a few actually blaming the problem on – wait for it! – the United States. I kid you not.However, before we address that stupidity, it…
Don't Tell LA Times There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
June 18th, 2007 2:12 PM
The Los Angeles Times is on the case of mean government bureaucrats who are making poor, innocent kids cry in their lunch milk. CHULA VISTA, CALIF. — When too many parents fell behind on paying for
school lunches, the Chula Vista Elementary School District decided to get tough — on the children.They told students with deadbeat parents that they had only one lunch choice: a cheese sandwich.The…
Media Ignore Theft of Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize, Downplay Palestini
June 17th, 2007 1:04 PM
On Saturday, NewsBusters asked two important questions: “Will Media Report Palestinians Fleeing Gaza For Israel,” and will they address the theft of Yasser Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize by Hamas looters? At this point, the answer to the latter is a resounding “No.” The answer to the former is “Not much.”To be more specific, extensive searches of Google News and LexisNexis have identified that no…
