Quote of the Period:“But the real question I have is this one: Is the Republican field worthy of the press that covers it?“

Ombudsman who works for CBC, sides with CBC, over Chief Blair, because he works for Mayor.

Story here – Vern White, former Ottawa police chief appointed to Senate.
h/t Jamie

National Post, Jan.3rd…

h/t John W.

The case of Jessica Lynch:

The claim that the military made up the tale of her battlefield heroics is seriously misstated. And more than faintly ironic, given that it was the Washington Post that reported Lynch had “gone down firing,” that she had fought ferociously in the ambush of her unit, the 507th Maintenance Company, in southern Iraq in MaPostrch 2003.
It was the Post — citing otherwise anonymous “U.S. officials” — that claimed Lynch had “shot several enemy soldiers” in the ambush.
It was the Post that said Lynch “continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her” in the fighting.
It was the Post that placed the electrifying heroic-warrior tale about Lynch on its front page of April 3, 2003, beneath a headline that read:

“‘She was fighting to the death.’”
It was the Post — alone — that placed the story into the public domain.
And none of it was true.

via

Via Honest Reporting where their sense of humour knows no bounds!

Given the seriousness of Mr. Fife’s violation of the basic principles of media objectivity, we contacted senior executives at CTV News to bring this matter to their attention and to ask how they will be dealing with this matter. We look forward to providing you with an update on how CTV will be handling this journalistic infraction from one of their senior journalists.

If you want further evidence that the Mainstream Media’s prime directive in 2012 will be to protect Barack Obama through lies & deception, look no further than this disgraceful screed from the Washington Post: Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs
Iowahawk provides full analysis

[T]he New York Times itself did not report the Pentagon’s vindication until Christmas Day, when most people are occupied with family and fun, and buried it on page A20 under the headline “Pentagon Finds No Fault In Ties to TV Analysts.”

BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Cheadle casts aside the last pretense of objectivity.

Janet Robinson will step down as chief executive of the New York Times Co at the end of the month, as the company
continues to struggle with advertising declines and a years-long slump in its share price.

From the NYT comments – “Krugman, we want Krugman. The smartest man in the world. He knows everything and he’s right there. If not him, Friedman or maybe Brooks or Dowd. All super brilliant people. They have never, ever been wrong. Maybe get the whole bunch involved.”
h/t trappedintrudopia
Occupy NYT: “An SEC filing says Ms. Robinson will get $4.5 million plus health insurance for a 12-month retirement and consulting agreement, including “two-year non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disparagement covenants, a three-year cooperation covenant and an indefinite confidentiality covenant.”

“During the 11AM hour on MSNBC we reported on a blog item that compared a phrase used by the Romney campaign to one used by the KKK in the 1920s. It was irresponsible and incendiary of us to do this and showed an appalling lack of judgment. We apologize to the Romney campaign.”

(h/t Jared D)