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


Via Gateway Pundit, h/t Fritz

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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

h/t Alan

Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest…

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“The reporters present intimate and detailed portraits of the candidates that would have painted a very different picture for voters. Two years later, now we know.”

Media Bistro: Fox News Finishes Week #1 in All of Primetime Cable
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National Enquirer, December 2007 – JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!
Mainstream Media, January 2010 – JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!

“In some places, there are codes, there are images… You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.” – Howard Fineman, senior editor of Newsweek
h/t TimR

I placed his name in the headline so that should you run across it in the future, you’ll be cautioned that the content you’re about to read may be unreliable;

A couple of weeks ago, a few of us in the blogosphere were e-mailed by a journalist in Kabul who was looking to do some research for a story he was writing about military vehicles and IED deaths in Afghanistan. The thesis he ran by all of us was that “non-US coalition partners (Canada included) are taking casualities because they simply are not driving vehicles that are effective against the IED.”
We tried to gently turn his head from that over-simplistic notion. And at the time, I naively thought we were doing a decent job of it.

Day’s “research” was prompted by…. oh, I’ll let you figure it out.

Here’s a story that leaves me conflicted. On one hand, this politely worded complaint is completely justified, given the circumstances;

Le Devoir reports that some 20 Canadian journalists camped out on the grounds of our Embassy in Port-au-Prince — which is being protected by members of the Canadian Forces — have been asked by staff to leave as soon as possible. […] “The priority for our diplomats is to help those in greatest need… those who’ve been affected by the earthquake… Water and food will be given to everyone… and the journalists can stay, but if they can find some other place, it would be greatly appreciated.”

But on the other, opportunities for the Earth to open up and swallow the lot of them don’t come along that often, either.

Secrets of TV news: Confessions of an anchorman.
(h/t Canadian Sentinel)

What a difference an internet makes, eh?

It’s not a profession. It’s a tribe.

So, “climate change denial” is widely rumored to have been the last straw. Perhaps sensing the loquacious Newfoundlander would prompt unneeded bad PR if sacked; I’m told [Globe and Mail Editor in Chief John] Stackhouse offered to move him to Mondays. As evidenced by the quick decampment to the National Post, it seems that went over like a tonne of bricks with Murphy.
The move was announced this past Thursday by Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s the National, where Murphy still resides as one of the few opinion columnists left on television.

I was going to write something about how the mainstream media were once in the business of investigating cover-ups, while today they’re unindicted co-conspirators, or some other blah-blah-nonsense like that.
But to tell you the truth – that’s not entirely correct. The media powers of decades past were just as dedicated to the complete and utter concealment of inconvenient truth as they are today.
Ask yourself – if Nixon had been a Democrat, would East Anglia have a “gate”?
I don’t think so, either. The only thing that’s really changed is their success at pulling it off – along with their success at selling the product.
I call that progress on two fronts.
(h/t Gord Tulk)

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“In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. ”

2009: Annus malpracticus.

And the award for the Op-Ed Writer Who Most Reminds Us Why We Stopped* Buying Their Insipid Crap goes to….