Rat …. ship.

Via email;

Tom Clark, host of CTV News Channel’s POWER PLAY WITH TOM CLARK and former CTV News Washington Bureau Chief, has moved on to pursue other opportunities, it was announced today.

The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left”…

I’ll be taking the remainder of the day off to gather my shattered assumptions.

“Only when you get to the seventh paragraph do you learn ….”

Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters.

“With most newspapers drawing more than half their audience from people who are 55 years of age and older, you would think they would avoid insulting those readers. But you would be wrong.“

“IP Address 192.206.151.131 traced back to Toronto Star.“

Related: Looks like we don’t need them!
h/t Ron from Kelowna

Reporters and editors, including myself, were reluctant to run stories detailing positive developments, such as a decline in al-Qaeda attacks, because it would look foolish if it appeared the same day insurgents wreaked havoc by setting off a deadly bomb.

Via

Via Gateway Pundit.

Newsmax, a magazine catering to US conservatives, reported the second fastest circulation rise, nearly doubling to 182,000. […] Newsweek circulation fell 40 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the comparable year-ago period as part of a deliberate cost-cutting initiative and strategy to court higher-end readers.

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In raising several questions about this issue and the economics of nuclear power, the article failed to point out, as it should have, that the study was prepared for an environmental advocacy group, which, according to its Web site, is committed to ‘‘tackling the accelerating crisis posed by climate change — along with the various risks of nuclear power.’’ The article also failed to take account of other studies that have come to contrasting conclusions, or to include in the mix of authorities quoted any who elaborated on differing analyses of the economics of energy production.

h/t huck

Harman’s pocket change purchase of Newsweek—he paid $1…
h/t WalterF

The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room.
The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas.

I remember when they did this over Climategate.

The CBC has truly lost its collective mind over the WikiLeaks release of the Afghan war logs. Despite denials from the families involved, despite denials from military officials and readily available eyewitness accounts, CBC continues to pretend that perhaps, just maybe the government is lying and four Canadian soldiers were killed by an American bomb…

Christie Blatchford , via Mark Collins;

This mess is not a WikiLeaks problem, nor a Canadian military problem, nor a Canadian government problem. It is a problem with the Canadian media – Ottawa-centric, conspiracy-embracing, unquestioning and unskeptical so long as the information seems damaging to the government, too quick to publish and, of course, absolutely without a shred of accountability. Shame on us.

Indeed.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Columbia Journalism Review, December 2009 – When the [Climategate] e-mails first leaked, however, reporters and bloggers on both sides of the debate expressed reservations about the legality and ethicality of publishing information acquired illegally.
New York Times, July 2010 – Below are a selection of the reports from a six-year archive of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks…

Moe Lane;

The Daily Caller has released the contents of a Journolist thread involving Sarah Palin’s uterus that took place between August 30th and September 1st, 2008. Now, let me be clear: most people involved in that particular thread thought that believing this nonsense was crazy – and even many of the ones who didn’t still thought that such a discussion was beyond the pale, for a variety of reasons. We will let those people pass on by, with only a cheerful suggestion that they never, ever take a Trig Troofer seriously in public again if they wish to avoid being raked over the coals for their silence to date. I think that’s fair: don’t you?
But then there are the crazy people.

Paul Waldman Aug 30, 2008, 4:04pm If the date on this photo from the Anchorage Daily News web site is correct, she is absolutely, positively, not seven months pregnant. Some of the pictures are doubtful, but this could barely be clearer: http://www.adn.com/2008/03/09/v-gallery/339576/baby-news-strikes-a-chord-030908.html

I assume that this is the Paul Waldman who is a Senior Correspondent of The American Prospect?

William A. Jacobson; “Of all the banter, perhaps the most important big picture item is that the discussion frequently centered on whether the story was worth running. This is the type of coordination and groupthink which has generated the criticism of the Journolist.”
Sarah Palin’s response.