No Bias Left Behind for NYTimes Voucher Story
Update with link added below.Reporting a new survey on the success of a federal voucher program in the District of Columbia,
New York Times reporter Sam Dillon portrayed the federal program as a failure, albeit
one that makes parents of voucher students feel good on the taxpayers' dime. Here's how Dillon opened his story (emphasis mine):Students who participated in the first year of the…
Media Blame America For China's CO2 Emissions
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…
Media Head over 'Heelys' with 'Dangerous Toy' Hype
What you don't know about your kids' sneakers can kill them!Hmm, I'm getting a strange sense of déjà vu.The Washington Post's Fredrick Kunkle let a leftist group skate away with the bland "nonprofit group" tag. The group, the Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) named Heelys -- a pair of sneakers with small wheels recessed into the heel -- the worst toy of 2006.But a review of…
Howard Kurtz at Washington Post: ‘Hillary Clinton is Inevitable
We are more than seventeen months away from the 2008 elections, and the Washington Post actually published an article Tuesday by Howard Kurtz that began with the following sentence (emphasis added throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Hillary Clinton is inevitable.Nice way to begin an article about a presidential race months before the first primary, dontcha think? Kind of like saying that the Yankees…
Day Before Father's Day, WashPost Mocked Dads for Making Stuff Up
I caught this over the weekend but my Internet connection at home was spotty. Today I see that Patrick Ishmael of "News Buckit" caught it too and was as offended as I was:Hey dads, Happy Father's Day from the Washington Post! Its message: You're not as smart as your kids think.
UN Secretary General Blames Slaughter in Darfur on Global Warming
Honestly, folks, when this first arrived in my inbox moments ago, I had to check multiple links to believe that this next example of Global Warming Derangement Syndrome was actually true. Alas, it was.United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is blaming mass-murder in Darfur on – wait for it! – "global climate change."I kid you not.As reported Sunday by Agence France-Presse (h/t Willis…
Media Ignore Theft of Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize, Downplay Palestini
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…
Washington Post Headline: ‘Could Some Win With Global Warming
The Associated Press on Thursday published an article that very much went counter to all the climate change alarmism so prevalent in the media since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005.Conceivably more shocking was the headline the Washington Post chose for the version published at its website: “Could Some Win With Global Warming?” According to LexisNexis, AP’s headline on all its versions…
