Global Warming Postponed: Tons of Snow at World Cup Opener
October 27th, 2007 3:54 PM
In March, Sports Illustrated published a lengthy cover-story dealing with how global warming was changing the face of sports including World Cup skiing which was forced to cancel one of seven events in Europe last season due to the absence of snow. Also that month, the New York Times published an article addressing how "the chaos of their calendar this season changed many [World Cup skiers] to…
NYT: World Ends in San Diego -- Illegals Hardest Hit
October 27th, 2007 3:09 PM
Leave it to the New York Times to portray illegal immigrants as the biggest victims of the wildfires. Try out this line from Glare of Fires Pulls Migrants From Shadows [emphasis added]:There were Mercedeses and Jaguars pulling out, people evacuating, and the migrants were still working,” said Enrique Morones, who takes food and blankets to the immigrants’ camps. “It’s outrageous.”Bonus points for…
Washington Post Critics Hate Pro-life Movie, Love Pro-gay Film
October 26th, 2007 11:20 PM
For the sake of the readers, and their own critical integrity, it's important that newspaper film critics review a movie first as a work of art, and then perhaps assess the political or cultural or moral messages within. A critic can love a film's message and hate its execution, or vice versa. But in Friday's Weekend section of the Washington Post, the critical reaction to two message films --…
WaPo Downplays Biden's Latest Racial Blooper; NYT, LAT Ignore It
October 26th, 2007 2:46 PM
It's time for a TGIF edition of one of our favorite games: WIARHSI. For you beginners, that's "What If A Republican Had Said It?"What if a Republican had said, in explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington:There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What…
NYT: Mexicans 'Being Squeezed' by Decline in Money Sent Home from Ille
October 26th, 2007 2:04 PM
A story from Mexico-based reporter Elisabeth Malkin on Friday's front page trawls for sympathy for poor Mexicans who come to the United States illegally to find work. Malkin went to the town of El Rodeo to find that "Mexicans Miss Money From Workers Up North." (That would be the United States.)At first glance this would seem to be a problem for Mexico. After all, who are we to interfere in…
NYT Develops Sudden Allergy to Nepotism
October 26th, 2007 10:28 AM
Sometimes chronicling media bias and hypocrisy is just too easy. You couldn't have asked for better material than what was provided Wednesday by the New York Times which ran a thousand-word-plus article discussing the alleged nepotism of Commentary’s hiring of John Podhoretz to run the magazine. (Hat tip: Ace.) I’ll grant that this type of character assassination article is typical when it comes…
Worst ‘Notable Quotables’ of the Past 20 Years: A Potpourri of Idi
October 26th, 2007 10:08 AM
To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. To wrap up this week’s posts, I thought I’d list a few of the most outrageous or moronic quotes we’ve come across since 1987.For…
Giuliani Too 'Hawkish,' 'Hard Line' and 'Neocon' for NYT and NBC
October 26th, 2007 3:18 AM
“The people guiding” Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani “in his foreign policy message...are drawing some attention,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced Thursday evening in advancing the news agenda of a front page New York Times story which ominously warned Giuliani “is consulting with, among others, a particularly hawkish group of advisers and neoconservative thinkers…
NYT Talks Around Charlie Rangel's Big Tax Hike
October 25th, 2007 4:21 PM
A big individual income tax hike is being pushed by Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, but New York Times economics reporter Edmund Andrews failed to capture the import in a slanted front-page business section story Thursday.The Times manages not to spell out precisely where Rangel's tax-hike proposal would begin to bite on "the wealthy." "The House'…
20 Years of Bias: Evil America
October 25th, 2007 9:49 AM
To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. Earlier this week, I presented quotes showing the media’s hostility towards Ronald Reagan and other conservatives, and sycophantic…
Global Warming Hysteria Drives States to Sue Bush Administration Over
October 24th, 2007 10:40 AM
For many months, NewsBusters has been warning readers that the hysteria being generated by the media and the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore concerning climate change would eventually begin to impact energy and economic policies. Following last Thursday's landmark decision in Kansas to not give an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to global warming…