Jon Stewart recently claimed on Fox News that the media was not partisan, just lazy. I thought I’d offer him an example to the contrary. This could be a continuing series, but I’ll start with one glaring example. Pay attention,
Jim Treacher posted this great clip on Twitter. Watch as Cenk Uygur of MSNBC tells his audience how pathetic Andrew Breitbart is, and by extension all the bloggers who believed the Weinergate story. [youtube ris7kWRonW8] Olbermann was a loudmouth misogynist
His name is Lee Fang and he specializes in splashy claims that sound great but frequently turn out to be completely false or very nearly so. Last October his splash was that the pro-business Chamber of Commerce was taking foreign
Ellisa Martinez, who made false threats against Broward county schools last year after watching an episode of Rachel Maddow’s television show, has pled guilty in federal court and faces up to five years in prison. I wrote about this story
I know what you’re thinking. This is news? But this statistical study covers 50 years of the Times‘ history from 1946-1997. Here’s what author Riccardo Puglisi found: The main finding is that the Times displays a Democratic partisanship, with some
As expected, the first line of defense against the budget cuts proposed by Paul Ryan will be to demagogue the issue of Medicare cuts. Ryan’s budget essentially turns the system into a subsidy for premiums. Over on MSNBC, Cenk Uygur
The Washington Post deserves credit for letting some embarrassing material slip into this story about Media Matter’s efforts to train progressives for TV appearances: The morning was dominated by a PowerPoint presentation by Drew Westen, the Democratic message guru and
On Saturday, a man broke into the home of an Israeli settler family and murdered them all with a knife. There were three children in the home including an infant girl. A three year old boy still had a pulse
The folks who warned us John McCain would die of cancer in office are back. This time they are targeting the Koch brothers with an 8-part film series designed to warm the hearts of liberal paranoiacs everywhere. Step one seems
A couple months ago I wrote a piece about RT (formerly Russia Today) titled, Mr. Putin Tear Down this Network. It seems Hillary Clinton has reached much the same conclusion. Note, this clip comes from RT itself, which seems quite
Here at Big Journalism we’re pretty tough on the media when they behave badly, but we also try to offer kudos where they are deserved, even if that’s only with benefit of hindsight. Yesterday I pointed out that three high
They got it right. Sure I would have loved to see the $40 million dollar version of the same movie, but the bottom line is that it works and works well. With the executive summary out of the way, let’s
In the wake of Tucson, we’re all supposed to be employing a New Tone. In fact, failure to do so is considered grounds for being hounded off the air, at least that’s the standard the shills at Media Matters have
If you’re not familiar with Righthaven, it’s a fairly simple organization: Righthaven LLC is owned 50/50 by two limited liability companies. The first is Net Sortie Systems, LLC, which is owned by Las Vegas attorney Steven Gibson – the Nevada
ABC has a piece today that offers some concern from professors of journalism that the Obama White House has gone further than any administration in memory toward creating a kind of state run media: The White House Press Office now
It was big news on the left when serial fabulist Lee Fang put together a video of supposed racism at tea party events for his website Think Progress. Blogger Bob Owens did an excellent job showing that nearly every element
This is really priceless. Since the Arizona shootings, Sullivan has been on a tear about the right’s rhetoric. After more than a week of this nonsense, Megan McArdle finally let Sullivan have it: Andrew’s defense seems to be that there
Greg Sargent at the Post had an interesting theory on the real meaning of Obama’s memorial speech: It’s true that Obama stated clearly there that rhetoric didn’t cause the shooting. But these lines are best understood as a set up
From ABC: An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska governor’s team has been talking to security professionals. Since the shooting
When Clay Duke walked into a Florida school board meeting last month and attempted to shoot several people, Paul Krugman said nothing. A cynic might suggest this was because Duke’s Facebook page contained a rant about “the rich” and a
The NY Times finally wrote something about the public sector pension crisis which manages to be critical of unions. Still, it’s every bit the dishonest mess you would expect from the Times. Author Michael Powell isn’t straight with his readers
Video of Clay Duke threatening Florida school board members with a gun: [youtube bB-cJWIZexM nolink] Did he have “caps” and not real bullets as someone in the video claims? According to the AP as of this writing, after being wounded
From Judge Henry Hudson, an early Christmas gift to America [pdf of decision]: Despite the laudable intentions of Congress in enacting a comprehensive and transformative health care regime, the legislative process must still act withing constitutional bounds. Salutatory goals and
For as long as there have been Communists abroad there have been useful idiots here at home. In the ’30s we had Walter Duranty at the NY Times and today we have a 24/7 news network called RT. Launched as
