And to think that when Rush Limbaugh calls them state-run media, people think he’s joking.

Meets the long memory of the internet.

“As we think about ways to both inform and surprise readers of the magazine, the notion of having him as a guest editor seemed like a good one.”

“Unsurprisingly the study of all the favorable coverage received little coverage.”
h/t Robert W.

A banana! A banana! His network for a banana!

“To be in the hallway when the president walks by with a handful of M&Ms, popping them in his mouth as he goes to visit his chief of staff — it was unbelievable.”

This is how Strategic Counsel polls “most Canadians” for CTV…

Results are based on a national sample size of 1,000 voting-age Canadians with an over-sample of 500 respondents from Quebec.

That Peter Donolo, he’s quite the joker.
h/t Orville H.

“You have worked in a newsroom, haven’t you? It shows.”

Robert Werner discovers Alexander Panetta.
In the comments: “You have worked in a newsroom, haven’t you? It shows.”

After seven years * of punishing positive US economic data with negative headlines, signs that some in mainstream media are mending the error of their ways – “Rosy Headlines And Few Read the Data”

Take the chipper headline about durables Durable-Goods Orders in U.S. Increase More Than Forecast on Autos, Defense. The article appropriately points out that the decline is not even bottoming (i.e. private business investment is sure to keep slowing).
[…]
Let’s just hunt for green shoots in a different place. How about the weekly unemployment report? Nice headline there Initial U.S. Jobless Claims Fall in Signal Biggest Rounds of Firings Over. So what does that mean?

What it means is that they finally got what they wanted!

Where the story begins is last Thursday afternoon, the day before Mancow was scheduled to be waterboarded, when the person slated to do the waterboarding suddenly backed out…

h/t

Uh, oh…. new reports of collateral damage…

The shutdown by Chrysler and General Motors of roughly 10% of the surviving auto dealers in the United States could cost newspapers and local broadcasters millions in annual revenues they can ill afford to lose.

Hey, they voted for him.

Another great moment in the demise of television news.
Faster, please.

Please note:
An Islamic thug screaming “death to Jews” in the streets of Sweden is a “youth” or an “activist”.
An Islamic thug screaming “death to Jews” from a podium at the United Nations is a “conservative”.
Thus concludes your Media Terminology Update for today.
(second link fixed – sorry!)

Tremble before the awesome fact-checking powers of Reuters…

h/t Eric D.

“And you wonder why so many of us aren’t just unsympathetic, but are actually pointing and laughing at seeing you go down in flames?”

Faster, please.

Killing A Story: How It’s Done
h/t

From one of several emails I’ve received;

I write to draw your attention to a situation I just encountered with Shaw Direct (the satellite TV provider formerly known as Star Choice). Returning from a short business trip my daughter advised me that there was a “message” from Shaw and I could read it on the TV.
The message advised me that in response to complaints (unnumbered and unspecified) about some disparaging comments about Canada’s military folks made by a Fox News show personality Shaw had decided that those persons subscribing to Fox News would have until May 18 to affirm their desire to continue their subscription to that Channel or else it
would be shut off.
This struck me as outrageous on so many levels. First, if people didn’t like the comments then they could turn the station or cancel their subscription. Why should those who didn’t complain and wanted to keep the station have to be the ones to take action? And why not sent people an email or put a notice in the monthly bill – communication methods much more likely to be seen and understood than the rarely used “mail” option on the satellite system. And what about those of us who find the CBC commentary about just about everything completely biased and idiotic? If an unspecified number of us wrote in to Shaw with generalized complaints about the bias at the CBC would all CBC subscribers have to take affirmative action or risk losing that station on their
receiver? Would the CRTC allow that to happen to the beloved CBC?

Indeed. The email address for comments/complaints AskJim@shawdirect.ca
Telephone number: 1.866.782.7932
Fax: 1.800.872.8219
Snail mail:
Your Feedback
Shaw Satellite G.P.
Suite 100, 2400 32 Ave NE
Calgary, AB
T2E 9A7
If any of you have other contacts, drop them in the comments and I’ll update the list.
Joel Johannesen. – “Much credit to a couple of the many Canadian pretenders of conservatism, Conservative Defence Minister Peter McKay and a Conservative Party genius strategist, Geoff Norquay, for their superb help in the constant drumbeat to defeat conservatism in this country, by helping to foment this sort of garbage”
Double indeed.

Why we despise you….

h/t Cal2