Michael Bloomberg has had a busy summer. The NYC Mayor has been waging a pitched battle against the 71% of New Yorkers who want the Cordoba House mosque moved from its present site. That event has gotten plenty of media
Call us cynical but we wonder whether Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s passionate backing of the building of a controversial mosque near Ground Zero stems as much from Bloomberg’s belief in America’s “freedom of faith” as it might from the Mayor’s belief
Read Part One here. Another reason for the spotty media coverage of the war along our southern border is manpower. Local media simply doesn’t have the resources to investigate and cover all of the stories in their area — even
Has the fog of war descended on the U.S. southern border, obscuring the reporting of news and concealing the truth about what is going on along the Rio Grande and in Arizona and California? Many violent incidents are not widely
This is a cautionary tale about reporters eagerly attacking other reporters working a developing story. Because it’s not possible to provide evidence as quickly as some might demand it doesn’t mean the story is false. On July 24, Kimberly Dvorak,
Texas Ranches Seized by Los Zetas Drug Cartel. Over the weekend this story caught fire in the blogosphere. One big reason the story went viral was that it fit the highly-believable narrative of violence spilling across a porous southern U.S.
Despite all of the attention the former vice-president’s been getting for his role in the National Enquirer‘s Al Gore Sex Attack scandal, Gore–or his spokespeople–have made only a couple of statements to the press. Taken together, the two statements prompt
*** UPDATED The National Enquirer has struck again in the Al Gore Sex Attack Scandal. Ahead of the print edition of the Enquirer hitting big city newsstands tomorrow morning, the Enquirer‘s website has just released it’s latest Al Gore Sex
The Washington Post had two pieces on the (forced) resignation of its “conservative” blogger, Dave Weigel: one by ombudsman, Andrew Alexander; and, another by the staff writer, Howard Kurtz. Both pieces make a bad situation worse: Alexander’s by unintentionally posing
How low have Senator Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer’s fortunes sunk to these days? Low enough that the three-term liberal Democrat doesn’t poll better than 43% against any of her three possible Republican challengers. Low enough that her primary
Will 2004 Democrat VP nominee and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards soon be indicted by the feds for campaign-finance violations? The National Enquirer says Edwards will be indicted — and in the John Edwards Scandal, where the Enquirer leads the
One small detail in an AP/Washington Post article of Feb. 10 has outed ABC News: the news network withheld a crucial detail in its reporting of the Andrew Young/John Edwards sex tape story. The crucial detail? ABC News had already
The Conservative 100, DBKP’s bi-weekly ratings of the most popular conservative websites came out today, and though the top ten places stayed the same, there were plenty of changes elsewhere. Fox News, Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, The Drudge Report,
Readers rarely get a chance to see the re-writing of history, but they’re seeing an attempt in the recent reporting by the Legacy Media of the John Edwards Scandal. Several recently-published books (Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Game Change and
Should the National Enquirer get the Pulitzer Prize for its multi-year investigation of the John Edwards affair, scandal and cover-up? That’s a question that’s been asked lately: in some cases, at the same Mainstream Media papers which participated in the
What do Jake Tapper, Alan Colmes, Rich Shapiro, John Cook and Mike Potemra all have in common? All of them reported that reliable media punching bag, Pat Robertson, blamed the devastating earthquakes in Haiti on a “pact with the Devil.”
Why did Game Change authors, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann keep quiet on one of the 2008 campaign’s juiciest stories–only to spill the beans eighteen months later? More importantly, why did they tell their readers about the John Edwards scandal