Given that the topic of this post is the Associated Press, I guess I should be pleased to report that one of its two reports tonight about the dive in the stock market last week is correct.
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Mehdi Kalhor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's media consultant and Iran's Vice President of media affairs announced on Saturday that Iran is setting two preconditions before it will engage in any talks with…
The Toledo Blade's lead editorial on Sunday, October 12, is a seeming plea to institute in America a chief communist principle: the "right" to a job. As anyone with even a rudimentary…
What were the producers of ABC's 20/20 thinking when they put the October 10 broadcast together? Viewers were subjected to a tabloidesque juxtaposition: about 28 minutes after they heard…
Poor Karl Ritter and Matt Moore of the Associated Press must have a lot of time to kill, a dearth of ideas, and a studied disinterest in accuracy as they await the awarding of the Nobel Prize for…
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There's some good news out of the EU this evening that I wanted to pass along. This might make your Sunday a little brighter, and (fingers crossed) could supply some much needed stability to…
President George W. Bush is choking on a pretzel in the White House and falls from a sofa. Saddam Hussein is there with him. Later Bush flies on a magic carpet over Baghdad as he bombs the city.…
Politico's Roger Simon claimed Sunday that John McCain and Sarah Palin are responsible for the anger being expressed towards Barack Obama by their supporters.
Unfortunately, he had nothing…
The fervent cheerleading for Barack Obama by the Los Angeles Times continues to roar. We've documented the staunch pro-Obama position at the Times several times before: here, here, here, here,…
While many in the media are accusing the McCain campaign of throwing everything they have at Barack Obama in the closing weeks of this presidential election cycle, other than Mark Hyman's…
The New York Times took the unusual step of quickly editing and replacing a hysterical post by hockey blogger Lynn Zinser that covered Sarah Palin's appearance at the Philadelphia Flyers home…
CBS News relies on the Associated Press for information on Sarah Palin's use of taxpayer funds for "religious purposes." But before taking into consideration what the AP "reports," one must first…
As a result of the stock market collapse in the last four weeks, the economy has become the most important issue on the minds of voters.
Yet, as Barack Obama has clearly benefitted in the…
CNN's Rick Sanchez is absolutely incredulous over the fact that there might be some black people out there who don't support Barack Obama. In an incredible double standard, Sanchez on his League of…
On August 27, 1996, in the midst of that year's Democratic National Convention in the Windy City, the Chicago Tribune had interesting news (posted in full at my web host for fair use and…
Well, this is a new one. In an October 11 story, the Washington Post is saying that one of the biggest reasons that the Old Media in the west isn't covering Iraq much these days is because they…
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Tough to believe, but it's already week six. What are today's big games, and what are the teams at this point clearly establishing themselves as the frontrunners?
Joe Concha's Pigskins and…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is the next shoe to drop the disbanding of the European Union and the euro?
The European Union is learning a painful lesson: that…
Is it time yet to put global warming on milk cartons? Perhaps. You might have noticed, or rather, not noticed the lack of much discussion of global warming in this campaign despite months of…
The front page of Sunday’s Washington Post carried the headline "Issue of Race Creeps Into Campaign." That’s a very bland headline for a story if you wanted people to read the article. It should…
Downplaying William Ayers came naturally in The Washington Post on Saturday. A picture on page A8 was captioned "John McCain has criticized his rival's ties to former radical William Ayers."…
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Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Chillicothe, Ohio, October 10, 2008. [Photo Reuters/Jim Young.]
Newsweek's Evan Thomas and NPR's Nina Totenberg, likely reflecting the attitude of many of their Washington press corps colleagues, declared Barack Obama's connection to unrepentant terrorist William…
Maxine Waters, a key Democrat congresswoman that has been implicated in blocking government oversight that could have prevented the current financial crisis, was caught lying Friday evening about…
There has been an unreality in the reports on the falling stock markets for at least the past 10 days. Each day's plunge seems to have been exclusively due to the "global economic crisis" and/or…