Liberal Bias 'Relatively Rare'? So Says Top N.Y. Times Editor In E-Mai
The nation’s top newspaper men think only an unsophisticated rube sees liberal bias as a persistent, intentional application of media muscle. In his book Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, Stephen Hayes of Weekly Standard fame reprints an E-mail that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller sent to Cheney spokesman Kevin Kellems in 2004 in…
Shrinkage At The New York Times Means Less Liberal Propaganda
To be sure, the term "shrinkage" means many things to people, especially fans of the hit television program "Seinfeld." Yet, to folks at the New York Times, it means facing financial realities, and doing more to save money. To right-thinking Americans concerned with the ongoing bias problem in the media, this shrinkage means less liberal propaganda. As reported by the Associated Press Sunday…
Saudi Book Suppression in the US Via UK Libel Laws: Where's the Outrag
Once again, something important breaks into Old Media, in this case the Orange County Register, only because a "mere" columnist decides it is: Who funds the mosques and Islamic centers that in the past 30 years have set up shop on just about every Main Street around the planet? For the answer, let us turn to a fascinating book called "Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism in the Islamic World,"…
NYT Deceives on Dem Vote Dodge
Aren't the MSM and the Dems the "let every vote count" clan? But when the Dems snuff out a GOP win on the House floor in a manner that would send the New York Times into the mother of all snits were the shoe on the other foot, the Gray Lady camouflages the facts, and even manages to place blame on the Republicans.Take the headline from the Times' story on the way in which the Democrat wielding…
Reporters Mike Allen, Matt Bai, and Jay Carney to Speak at Yearly Kos
Updated. See below fold.If you have trouble imagining the establishment media speaking at CPAC -- although I do remember a slick Tim Russert and a prickly Ted Koppel attending one at the invitation of Accuracy in Media ten years ago -- it's not as hard to imagine "objective" reporters at the second annual lefty-blogger Yearly Kos convention, this year in Chicago. Mike Allen of the Politico (…
NYT's Giuliani, Ailes Attack Falls Flat
Will the fear and loathing among the liberal press for all things Fox never cease? In the latest installment of the media's Fox Derangement Syndrome, the New York Times, the self-styled paper of record, has spent hundreds of hours researching and trying to dig up dirt on the friendship between Rudy Giuliani and Fox News Channel head Roger Ailes. This article was all they could come up with, a…
Seized in a Coup? Tabloid Headlines for Murdoch's Dow Jones Deal
Rival newspapers are not calmly reporting the news that Rupert Murdoch has sealed the deal to buy The Wall Street Journal for a royal sum. The Washington Post front page headline today makes Rupert sound like he came in with tanks, not just cash: "Murdoch Seizes Wall St. Journal In $5 Billion Coup." Liberals must really see this tycoon as some sort of press-baron version of Pinochet.In New York,…
Huffington: Hillary 'Swiftboated' Obama
Don't look for Arianna Huffington to be sitting down to a chummy luncheon with Hillary Clinton anytime soon. Huffington has been no fan of Clinton for some time, considering her insufficiently, and inauthentically, anti-war. But on today's "Morning Joe," Huffington took her animus to another level, accusing Hillary of an ultimate Dem sin: "swiftboating" an opponent, namely Barack Obama.…
NYT Columnist: Laura Bush Like Deranged '24' First Lady & Evil Harry P
Bush hatred has taken on a new, virulent mutation: animus towards First Lady Laura Bush. Witness today's New York Times column by Judith Warner, ‘24’ as Reality Show [subscripton required].Warner's jumping off point is Kiefer Sutherland's response to a question about the advent in this coming season's "24" of a woman president. Observed the actor who plays Jack Bauer: “I can tell you one thing.…
Follow-up: National Media Ignore Congresswoman's Walkout on General's
As noted here at NB yesterday, Kansas Congresswoman Nancy Boyda walked out of a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Friday after hearing General Jack Keane testify about the potential impact of a bill meant to micromanage troop deployment. Keane also testified about progress being made in the counteroffensive that has come to be known as "the surge." Boyda walked out because the objections…
