h/t Dan

The bad news: A 168 year old media institution is no more. The good news? Now we have a precedent for the next time the New York Times publishes state secrets.
Beauty!

And the Casey Anthony comment of the day;

An Orlando TV station declares that the trial “captivated the nation.” Which is, I suppose, a way of saying that TV ran wall-to-wall coverage for the benefit of idiots who were “captivated,” which no sane person could have been. Some postgraduate student of communication theory will undoubtedly write his Ph.D. dissertation on what the Casey Anthony saga tells us about the process by which network TV producers decide which crimes to turn into media circuses.

Via Drudge – Anthony Defense Team Slams Media

Professional leftist interviewed by a professional journalist. Watch and learn…

Via

The licenses of CBC Television and Radio are coming up for renewal.

The CRTC is welcoming comments from the public on the matter. Do share them!
h/t Mike in Calgary

Tell us why should you be selected to be one of the 100-person team to work with Post reporters on the Palin emails?

I should be selected as I was one of the first to link to the Climategate emails, which of course, WaPo had no interest in whatsoever, despite the fact that they suggested fraud and collusion among researchers whose theories are responsible for public policy worth trillions of dollars worldwide.
Hypocrisy such as this is why we hold modern “journalism” in such deep and abiding contempt.

In a recent article, Newsweek magazine declared Grand Rapids, Michigan to be one of the Top Ten dying cities in America. The people of Grand Rapids, inspired by one of their native sons, Rob Bliss, had a very different opinion and set out to prove how incredibly wrong Newsweek was. They all got together and created this incredible “LipDub” video (watch full-screen & in HD for full effect) :

The video was posted last Thursday and went viral soon after. The following day Dennis Miller interviewed the fledgling director, Rob Bliss. In one of his funniest quotes ever, Miller said: “Newsweek telling you you’re a dying city is like you visiting Moscow and Lenin sits up in his tomb and says you look a little pale!”
For those not aware, last year Newsweek was sold. The price? Just $1.00. I expect it’s worth even less now!
For those interested in visiting Grand Rapids, much more information can be found at ExperienceGR.com.

There’s no left-wing bias at ABC News. At least that’s what you’d believe if you were living in Diane Sawyer’s head.

For …reporters looking for more details, Palin isn’t providing them. Palin’s staff has been unresponsive to reporters’ requests or told them to check the SarahPAC website, which updates with information only after she’s stopped somewhere.

Heh…

The confusing nature of the trip – which was planned by two advance aides recently hired by Palin – played out at a coffee shop this morning, where Palin stopped to shake hands with locals in what looked to reporters like the very definition of a campaign-style photo-opportunity. Multiple people showed up at the event saying they were there because they wanted to see history –but they wouldn’t say where they had come from or how they had heard about the event.
“I just want to say that I’m witnessing history happening,” one woman said – three times. She wouldn’t give her name.

More at Drudge.

Katie, we hardly knew ye.

“I hear what I think are explosions at the Ford dealership,” posted one person Tweeting live from Slave Lake.
“The cars are blowing up, one by one.”
[…]
Frustration about information flow also started to build as the evening television newscast came and went with nary a mention from our national broadcasters. In this community’s moment of greatest need, CBC was sleeping.

I’m with Bob – take the money to rebuild Slave Lake out of the CBC budget.

Soros,who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.

“Did you have concerns about the men’s behavior in a formal setting?”