Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds to Justice Department investigation.
Update: Obama admin. fought to keep Rosen warrant secret
The Last American Journalist
Ominous Warning: What CNN’s Jake Tapper Told Obama Supporters
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Scratch a leftist – A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.
More from Michael Coren.
h/t Adrian
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…notice what Weisman did here: in the HEADLINE and in the OPENING SENTENCE he revealed the MAJOR NEWS that came out of that day’s testimony. The IG directly contradicted the Obama administration’s claim it had no idea anything was wrong at the IRS or that certain groups and citizens were being targeted for harassment due to ‘incorrect’ political beliefs.
In other words, WEISMAN DID WHAT A REPORTER IS SUPPOSED TO DO. He led with the news and made it easy to see.
Well that really bothered somebody higher up, who decided that Weisman’s piece was ‘incomplete’ and needed some ‘massaging’ to bring out the REAL STORY.
Take a look at what Weisman’s original piece was turned into after it was helpfully ‘edited’ by Jeremy W. Peters…
Related – “…lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?”
Obama Admin Targeted Fox, James Rosen’s Parents
If you’re beginning to doubt the assurances about HLS ammo purchases, you’re probably not alone. Much more here.
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In 1973, the press was almost uniformly adversarial; today it has shamefully functioned from 2009 onwards as a Ministry of Truth, a sort of force multiplier of the West Wing. Everything Nixon did was suspect, often with good cause, and seen through the prism of his excesses; in the case of Obama, from Fast and Furious to Solyndra to the EPA and NLRB freelancing to the selective enforcement of the law, the press has more often been an enabler, working to explain why a scandal or an excess is really some sort of right-wing obsession, emanating from suspect or even racist motives. Something very scary started in 2009-10 — and that this new way of doing business was supposedly done for the proverbial “people” to ensure “fairness” has made it even more insidious and far more difficult to come to terms with.
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Extreme Tech: Was the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year faked with Photoshop? (Via)
Lessons from the BC Election – Beyond the Media Spin
The 2013 British Columbia election is now over and the BC Liberal Party has grabbed a sizable victory from the much anticipated jaws of defeat. Most every pollster and talking head was absolutely wrong with their predictions. It is interesting to reflect back on this April 25th column from Thomas Walkom, warning that the polls may be very misleading. The only “poll” that mattered was the one that took place yesterday at the ballot box.
What is beyond disgusting though is the false spin from Christy Clark’s Praetorian Guard in the Media Party that this was a great victory thanks to her. This being uttered by the same folks who were entirely wrong in the lead-up to May 14th. In the same way that politicians rarely seem to learn from their mistakes, “journalists” seem impervious to their own.
In the past 24 hours, almost every single person I’ve spoken with who voted for the BC Liberals commented how much they loathed and distrusted Christy Clark but were simply voting that way because they were legitimately frightened about the pro-wacky-environmental / anti-business rhetoric of Comrade Dix of the NDP. From his very own pronouncements during the campaign, he was very much setting the stage to borrow & spend the province into oblivion once again, like every single one of the past NDP regimes in this province has done before.
As for Ms. Clark, one would hope that she would accept her party’s victory with some humility and the loss in her own riding as a clear message that voters aren’t at all pleased with her. But she won’t. That would take a depth of character that she simply doesn’t possess. However, in the near future, when an elected Liberal MLA is coerced to step down so she can run in that person’s riding in a by-election, one can only hope that the voters there will have the wisdom to defeat her again. Of course, she’ll have her friends in the Media Party on her side with heavy duty propaganda to help her win but let’s hope the voters can rise above that spin.
For those interested, Charles Adler will be discussing the election results at 11:05am PDT / 1:05pm CDT / 2:05pm EDT. Update: The segments can be heard here and here.
Update: Lorne Gunter has an excellent summary of the BC election results, as well as a related one about anti-resource politicians like Thomas Mulcair. In the latter one, John Robson has a brilliant line: “The NDP serves as the official opposition to reality.”
Sorry
“….hopefully a pro-Western Syria.” isn’t enough of a good reason for any intervention.
Given the West keeps trying to install the Bush doctrine and promote likely to fail democracies I don’t like the odds of adding a more radical regime to the region.
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#JournalismFail #SpellingFail #ProofReadFail #AccuracyFail
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NBC reporter Ida Siegal has no idea what the hammer & sickle represent. More here.
Deep Impact
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Against a steady drumbeat of negativity, a glimmer of hope…
Sometime within the next two years, the CBC is almost certainly going to lose its single largest source of advertising revenue, NHL hockey. It will be out-bid for the contract by one of the country’s enormously wealthy commercial broadcasters, probably Bell Media. That will mean a loss of 40 per cent of the corporation’s total annual ad revenue, but also a loss of something close to 400 hours of Canadian content programming – a hole that will have to be filled. Already bled white by decades of funding reductions from successive federal governments, the CBC is in no position to survive this blow.
(h/t Maz2)
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.@dougsaunders I know exactly who Nigel Farage is. Unlike you, who apparently can’t tell a Nazi salute from your own reflection.
— katewerk (@katewerk) May 1, 2013
For the millions of Canadians who don’t recognize the name, Doug Saunders is the “International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail” and resident expert on the “far right”.
4 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Associated Press: “US home prices up 9.3 pct., most in nearly 7 years”
This Is Awkward
The show was staffed up and set to launch with great fanfare Monday morning on 94.1 FM. That frequency already is licensed and used by the CBC for simultaneous broadcast in Saskatoon of the network’s provincewide AM signal, with the morning show out of Regina. The plan was to use that place on the FM dial, at least in the mornings, for live local broadcasting. As of Monday, Saskatoon no longer would be the biggest city in Canada without a local morning show on CBC radio.
The plan went sideways this week because the network forgot to apply for the requisite federal broadcast license.
h/t Rob
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*I swear, it’s like sipping from a firehose some days.
h/t Mike in Montreal
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The [Toronto Star] story had a central theme: renters are victims. Screwed. And the investors who own those condos are the screwees. […]
Of course, as I’ve proven time and again, reality is something quite different. Most investor-landlords are lucky to break even on their condos, usually in negative cash flow because market rents simply can’t cover financing, condo fees and taxes – let alone give a return on invested equity. In other words, someone like KLM renting a unit for $1,625 is being subsidized by the delusional twit who actually owns the place, even with a mortgage at sub-3%. They’re also avoiding the looming disaster of a condo market meltdown – a story now getting almost daily coverage.
How could a smart young professional not figure this out? Unless she has zero real estate knowledge?
As I walked through the airport, powered up my phone and checked out the latest anguished comments to this tormented blog, I suddenly realized who Kerri Lynn McAlister really is. She’s a plant.
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As it turns out, KLM is also a newspaper writer and industry spokesperson.
h/t Colby Cosh