“And what was astounding to me, to see my name quoted in the online version of the New York Times, as well as the Associated Press, I was just astounded that I was being quoted from a document that I eventually found at the website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that was part of the case, and it wasn’t my handwriting.”

h/t
Related – CNN lost “almost half” of their viewers in the last year

These are surreal times for America: a nation under siege by a violent, hate-filled, politically inconsequential mob of dozens that nobody has ever heard of.
*Related.

And worth every penny. he is.

Not just a book title* anymore!

And you thought Peter Mansbridge wore his heart on his pants leg.
h/t kmn

“You know Canadian newspapers don’t pay for interviews.” –Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail.

And the Bret Baier buzz begins.
You can watch the full interview here, or read the rush transcript.
Update: This QOTW from the NYT David Brooks… (via Hotair)

Either this whole city has gone insane or I have or both. But I’m out here on the ledge and I’m not coming in the window. In my view this is no longer about health care. It’s just Democrats wanting to pass a bill, any bill, and shredding anything they have to in order to get it done. It’s about taking every sin the Republicans committed when they were busy being corrupted by power and matching it with interest.

And now, for the “Hawaii earthquake” moment….

In this case I think Newsbusters is going a bit hard on the New York Times.
It’s likely that the editorial staff noticed the intersecting lines in the image, but just couldn’t quite put their finger on where they’d seen it before.

The Telegraph, doing the job N. American media refuses to do.

Good on Kady O’Mally (warning: CBC link) for digging into the truth about the nefarious relationship between the PMO and Google Canada . I suppose the Prime Minister could have gone on to Redtube (NSFW) instead of Youtube.

All sarcasm aside, it’s probably worthwhile bringing up a potential conflict of interest between Google and the PMO. I just think that the rest of her blog post is absurd. When challenged about the CBC being a registered lobby she states the difference being that ‘Google isn’t actually a media outlet — no, not even “new media”‘.

While I do applaud O’Malley’s raw blogging, I do think she should apply some traditional journalistic practices to her commentary. Like say, research. Google’s Section 11. Content licence from you.

Now, lest you think that I’ve gone off my rocker, remember, Google owns blogger.com and youtube.com to name only two. In short, Google shares all rights (except liability) with a content provider utilizing any of Google’s services. If a traditional media outlet spends most of it’s coverage replaying Associated Press, Canadian Press, et al., just like Google does, is it excluded from the ranks of ‘media’ too?

Kady continues sticking up for the Corp by saying that the PMO organized PM Harper’s YouTube conference and so it isn’t media. Well, of course, she would say that taking questions from ‘the media’ is much more important than taking questions from citizens.

For what it’s worth Kady, the term ‘media’ is a generic term. I wonder if you can find anything in here that might qualify? Maybe you should have used the more explicit, “traditional news gathering entity that hires people like me to follow specific stories and then to emit twaddle about them.” Oh, wait, Google does that too.

At least, it’s only a $B a year for this…cheap, really.

Cheers,
lance

ABC News is poised to make a major round of cuts that will reduce the size of the news division by as much as 20% and radically reorder the network’s traditional approach to news gathering.
in a startling coincidence – The FOX News Channel (FNC) operating income, as compared to the prior year, increased 50% for both the fourth quarter and the full year, primarily from increased affiliate revenues. For the full year, FNC primetime ratings were up 45% compared with the same period a year ago.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Bush president headline: U.S.-led coalition air strikes left 76 civilians dead…
Obama president headline: NATO airstrike kills 27 civilians…
Related;

The Left’s silence on Mullah Baradar is convenient. Gone are the hysterical cries of torture. Missing in action are the opponents of rendition. One searches in vain for impassioned denunciations of Obama’s outsourcing of interrogations to countries with long histories of torture. What happened to the sputtering self-righteousness of yesteryear, when Bush and Cheney were routinely compared to Hitler and Pol Pot? To the Left, it would appear, it’s totally cool as long we’re not the ones doing it.

h/t Maple Stump

“We are now coming after you…”

Sign of the times.

h/t Pete

Also not dead: Burton Cummings, Joni Mitchell, Randi Bachman, Neil Young (unconfirmed)…

“The poodles are heading for the endangered species list, and deservedly so.”

“That my friend, is not media bias. It’s contempt for the American people.”


Via Gateway Pundit, h/t Fritz

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Drudge Report – CBSNEWS anchorwoman and 60 MINUTES contributor Katie Couric faces a dramatic pay cut at the network, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT. CBS boss Les Moonves is determined to save money and trim expenses — from top to bottom — at the former crown jewel of broadcasting.
Mediaite – Fox News had its best January in the history of the network, and was the only cable news network to grow year-to-year.

Eye (Don’t) Witness News – The Lech Walesa Story