“The BBC isn’t the Catholic Church, but it has its own ideals and traditions…“

A friend of Gamlin’s remembers going to see him in a flat in All Souls Place in the 1950s, just round the corner from Broadcasting House. A man from Light Entertainment used the flat during the working week and Gamlin often stayed there with young boys. It was clear to the friend that both men were renting the boys, and that the boys were young: ‘They were boys with the kind of good looks that would seem very lewd in a woman.’ He also remembers going for a coffee with one of the boys from the flat. ‘The boy was nice,’ he said, ‘very young. He thought he might get a job or something of that sort. And it was clear the men were using him for sex. Broadcasting House was well stocked with men interested in sleeping with young boys. It was a milieu back then. And people who sought to be sexual predators knew that. It wasn’t spoken about.’ “

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Fox News is covering the latest revelations of the Benghazi murders:

Let’s check in with the other Mainstream Media news outlets to see how the self-proclaimed journalistic “professionals” are covering the biggest story in the world right now. A careful analysis of their home pages at 3:45pm ET reveals the following:
NBC News : Nothing.
ABC News : There was a link to Jake Tapper’s blog, which discussed the story, but nothing else more prominent.
CBS News : A small story in the lower left corner talks about the commando force available but mentions no details of the multiple calls for help, all of which were denied.
CNN : There was a tiny text-only link to the “Benghazi e-mails” but nothing else.
NY Times : Nothing.
Washington Post : Nothing.
CBC News : Nothing.
BBC News : Nothing.
What would be most amusing, if this wasn’t so serious, is that almost all of the news outlets prominently display “Breaking News” or “Latest News” as taglines. Pathetic.

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New York Times still blames YouTube video for Libyan ‘riots’
Related: A montage of Obama administration statements.
h/t Kevin B

“…the NY Times incoming CEO, Mark Thompson, is embroiled in one of the largest scandals ever to rock the BBC.”

Cincinnati, Ohio TV Station WCPO Shows Election Night Results with Obama Win on its Website

A winner is declared in Phoenix, too.
h/t marc in calgary

The fifth stage is “the turn”;

….only four years ago, Obama was widely advertised throughout the media as the half-breed Alpha, the Fresh Prince of Punahou, the suave dark lover extraordinaire with the mellifluous voice who featured in the turgid, illicit sex fantasies of SWPL-women from coast to coast. He was supposed to be the older, political version of the hip black man with the halfro who always has a white girlfriend in the TV commercials when he isn’t occupied spending his days as the fifth wheel in every group of otherwise white male friends.

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CNN: “We were helping out the slow kid.”

Firemen in Chicago in 1871 were not carrying as much water as the media is for Obama.

— Dennis Miller Show (@DennisDMZ) October 16, 2012

Reporters applaud Obama’s slam on Romney’s wealth.

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Festering the problem, many reporters, thought leaders in the press, and news executives rarely encounter people in the heartland any more. The Mississippi River Valley is something to be flown over instead of studied and covered unless there is a natural disaster. Additionally, the new breed of political reporter knows little about politics before Bush v. Gore, couldn’t care less to have a sense of history to give them perspective, embraces the cosmopolitan culture of elite environs in New York and Washington diving only into hipster dive bars to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon to connect in some superficial way with the rest of the country, leans left socially and fiscally, and maintains an increasingly secular world view nearly identical to that of their other young, hipster reporter friends. “Professing themselves wise, they became fools . . . ”
It is a painful truth.
But there is more.

h/t EBD

Not dead. Just restin’.

Although, The Anchoress probably should have titled it, “Former Dem Pollster….”, at least after tomorrow.

h/t: Ed Driscoll

“I don’t read the paper”.

The eight stage is bringing in the lawyers.

The State Department blasted CNN Saturday night for the network’s handling of a personal journal belonging to late U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, which was removed from the site of the deadly Sept. 11 consulate attack.
[…]
“Perhaps the real question here is why is the State Department now attacking the messenger,” read the CNN statement.

AP Exclusive: Termites, storms, neglect damage some of Imelda Marcos’ prized shoes, gowns: apne.ws/QMc6qa -JM

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2012

Jake Tapper;

Asked about the Fast and Furious program at the Univision forum on Thursday, President Obama falsely claimed that the program began under President George W. Bush.

Seeking permission from Power;

The New York Times has introduced a new policy opposing “quote approval,” the widespread practice of letting sources edit their own quotes prior to publication. [,,,]
The move is a landmark decision in a debate that’s been playing out throughout the industry, following a report by the Times that revealed how the White House, the Obama and Romney campaigns, and other organizations required quote-approval schemes as a pre-condition for interviews.

And who can blame them? As a great blogging sage once said – “If you believe everything you read in the paper, try getting interviewed sometime.”