NY Times Lauds 'Open-Minded' Silicon Valley That Punishes 'Deviations'

Tom Blumer
July 22nd, 2016 12:13 PM
New York Times reporter Farhad Manjoo and his editors apparently are so insulated in their politically correct bubble that they fail to recognize embarrassing text anyone outside of that bubble with two eyes and and ounce of sense can clearly see. In a Wednesday piece (Thursday print edition, Page B1) designed to portray Republican National Convention speaker, Donald Trump supporter and PayPal…
 
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AP Helped Set Expectations For RNC Protest 'Chaos' in Cleveland

Tom Blumer
July 22nd, 2016 10:30 AM
The headline at Dan Zak's Arts & Entertainment column at the Washington Post early Thursday evening: "We were promised a riot. In Cleveland, we got a block party instead." (There were occasional exceptions.) Though his article's tone was generally positive, he did complain that "Cleveland is basically a police state this week." Gosh, I didn't know police states had so much freedom of speech…
 

USNews.com: RNC Protesters Blame Open Carry for Low Turnout Thus Far

Tom Blumer
July 21st, 2016 3:09 PM

Many leftists thought that they would attract huge, unprecedented crowds of protesters and cause a great deal of mayhem at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. Tuesday evening at USNews.com, Steven Nelson, appearing to assume facts which have thus far not been supported by evidence, wrote that the protest crowds (and arrests) have been light "despite the nomination of…

 

Chelsea Thanks Greatest Generation for Creating 'Gayest Generation'

Culture
Karen Townsend
July 21st, 2016 3:02 PM
Wednesday's episode of Netflix’s Chelsea, titled “LGBTQ Life with Jane Lynch & E.J. Johnson,” was an ode to all things “queer” – lesbian, gay and transgender, in particular. After lesbian actress Jane Lynch (Glee, Hollywood Game Night) and E.J. Johnson, a cross-dressing gay man who is the son of basketball legend Magic Johnson, recounted their own personal stories, Chelsea introduced a “…
 
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Colbert Prank Crashes RNC Stage, Introduces 'Hunger for Power Games'

Tom Blumer
July 20th, 2016 2:46 PM
CBS News has fancied itself as a serious, hard-news operation since the days of Walter Cronkite. For all of its heavily documented bias, and though it's now handicapped compared to its Big Three and Fox competition by not having a cable affiliate, it has generally covered and treated the major party conventions as important national events. So one would think that someone at what used to be…
 

AP, Plain Dealer Promoted a Tuesday Anti-Trump Rally; It's on Thursday

Tom Blumer
July 19th, 2016 11:56 PM
It's a good thing all those layers of fact-checkers and proofreaders are out there in the establishment press making sure that they don't misinform their readers about the dates and times of impending events. Oh, wait a minute. Both Cleveland.com, the home website of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Associated Press promoted a "Stand Together Against Trump" rally as if it would take place…
 

Slate Trumpets Armed Muslim In 'Sea of Often Explicit Islamophobia'

Matthew Balan
July 19th, 2016 10:04 PM
Michelle Goldberg used a Tuesday item for Slate to tout Micah Naziri's open-carry protest outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Goldberg zeroed in on how Naziri's clothing "made him stand out...[as] an armed Muslim in a sea of often explicit Islamophobia." She later played up how "a group of burly men who called themselves Bible Believers" held anti-Islamic signs near the…
 
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On FNC, Malik Shabazz Calls For Reparations 'For All of Our Blood'

Tom Blumer
July 19th, 2016 8:42 PM
Former New Black Panther leader Malik Shabazz, whose incendiary, racist remarks could fill a very long book, was interviewed by Megyn Kelly at Fox News Monday night. Shabazz has had a long history of establishment media indulgence, which explains how he can now meritlessly present himself as the supposedly respectable head and co-founder of "Black Lawyers for Justice." Fox's choice to give him…
 

Media Lauds ‘Peaceful’ Protesters Prior to Baton Rouge Cop Killing

Culture
Maggie McKneely
July 18th, 2016 3:39 PM
Although demonstrators have been sparking police action by throwing rocks and bottles, blocking major interstates, and disrupting everyday life in cities across the country, the lefty media narrative last week was all about the “peaceful” protesters and the evil cops that kept arresting them. Now, three Baton Rouge police officers have been killed. 
 
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Tom Brokaw Bemoans 'Fear' and 'Hostility' the Press Helped Create

Tom Blumer
July 18th, 2016 10:03 AM

On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw seemed bewildered and frustrated that race relations in the U.S. haven't improved as much as he hoped they would by now. Brokaw didn't consider his own network's significant and largely dishonest contribution to this situation during the past nearly 11 years.

 

Pokemon Go Re-Reveals the Media’s Anti-Free Market Fetish

Seton Motley
July 18th, 2016 9:40 AM
It’s almost as if “Net Neutrality” is a Leftist safe word - to be uttered when the free market growing freely causes them too much discomfort. Few things demonstrate the insular Media-Government Bubble better than this:
 

Slate Writer: Journalists Should Stop Using 'Terrorist,' 'Terrorism'

Tom Blumer
July 17th, 2016 8:31 PM
Adam Ragusea, writing at Slate.com, believes that the word "terrorist" has become "uselessly arbitrary and loaded," because it "has acquired a powerful religious—and specifically Islamic—connotation" that "is substantively consequential." As a result, Ragusea believes that the Associated Press, whose Stylebook sadly exerts nearly ironclad control over language used in U.S. establishment press…
 

Memphis Editor Apologizes For True Dallas Massacre Headline

Tom Blumer
July 17th, 2016 3:23 PM
The Memphis Commercial Appeal died as a genuine newspaper on July 12. Its journalistic pulse stopped when its editor, Louis Graham, apologized for the paper's three-word front-page headline after the July 7 race-motivated massacre of five Dallas policemen, which read: "Gunman Targeted Whites."
 

Latest Excuse For Venezuela's Food Shortages: Military Mismanagement

Tom Blumer
July 16th, 2016 2:38 PM
The latest installment in leftist excuse-making when socialism fails goes into the "It would work if leaders just had the right people handling things" file. It comes in the form of a Friday morning "analysis" at the Associated Press. Writers Jorge Rueda and Joshua Goodman want readers to believe that the economy in the Bolivarian socialist and once fairly prosperous nation of Venezuela would be…