Media Matters, who excoriated the Marines in a video where they appeared to urinate on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters who tried to kill them in combat, have ignored the Occupy movement’s latest tactic: throwing urine on members of the
During the rise of the tea party Anderson Cooper called conservatives “tea baggers” on CNN and remarked about “teabagging.” The network featured a multitude of guests and contributors who likened tea partiers to nazis, bigots, pick your poison. No pressure was ever brought about
– Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch and a good chunk of the Breitbart crew will be at CPAC beginning today. Loesch will broadcast from radio row, is scheduled to receive the AIM award today, present one of the Bloggers’ Red Carpet Award tomorrow,
– This is now beyond stupid and ridiculous. Progressives are now angry at Roland Martin because he was making jokes during the Super Bowl. There is a scary, fascist trend developing here in the United States where people too sensitive to apparently
Reuters: U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources
– Bill Maher tells Occupy Wall Street to “get a job,” and says: “As I watch them on the news now I find myself almost agreeing with Newt Gingrich. Like, you know what – get a job…Now it’s just a
– Google joins the censorship fun at the request of repressive governments. – If only outlets reacted this way when the issue isn’t editing an image into a frog, but rather manipulating or omitting facts to convince the reader of
Unless you missed it this week: Media Matters still refuses to condemn the violence in the Media Matters-endorsed OWS movement. Media Matters also refuses to answer why a “media site” is seemingly in violation of the rules binding 501 c(3)s
Media Matters continues to deflect from accusations of antisemitism and extreme bias by trumping up nontroversies on other conservatives. In addition to watching Fox, scouring Andrew Breitbart’s Twitter feed, and recording Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch’s shows, Media Matters for
Trying. Not. To Smile. Failing. AMY CHOZICK in the New York Times: The New York Times Company reported on Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit declined 12.2 percent as rising subscription and digital advertising revenue at its largest newspapers could not
– Branded Twitter pages are here! But only, apparently, if you’re a progressive news outlet. Seriously, Al Jazeera? What’s next, RT/ Russia Today / Komrade Kommuniqué? Rhetorical question. – Real headline: Barack Obama controls media more than presidential predecessors. President
– How Pininterest uses content without violating copyright laws. – On crackers. MSNBC set the rules when it declared “food stamps” as a Racist Codeword . Going by MSNBC’s rules, “cracker,” even when used on Floridians, is Racist . –
Just announced from Accuracy in Media: WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012–Accuracy in Media will honor Dana Loesch and Sharyl Attkisson for their outstanding contributions to journalism in a ceremony taking place at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference. The Reed Irvine
– Juan Williams adds “Founding Fathers” and “Constitution” to the Big Book Of Words You Can’t Say Because They’re Racist, According to Me. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears
Via Project Veritas: PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY- On New Hampshire Primary Day, Project Veritas, while violating no laws, exposed the ease in which voter fraud can occur in states lacking voter identification requirements. Project Veritas’ work has been praised New Hampshire’s
– Adam Jacobi, formerly with CBS, says the network fired him over reporting Joe Paterno’s death before it happened. Also: CBS was not the only news site to falsely report Paterno’s death. But it was the first major news site
The protest endorsed by progressive media. From Huffington Post San Francisco: Have you noticed that MSM started distancing itself from the occupy protests? Media Matters for America — busted last week after it embarrassed itself with an email appealing its
Thursday the Drudge Report had no less than 13 anti-Gingrich links scattered across the page with somewhere around five “above the fold.” The same day, National Review Online, the American Spectator, and pundit Ann Coulter all published missives railing against
– The National Journal fact checks and compares Obamacare and Romneycare. – Hysterical. Jeopardy contestants can’t identify Rachel Maddow: [youtube s-aTMDKZMYM nolink] Obviously they, along with most of the country, don’t watch MSNBC. – Newt Gingrich isn’t the only thing
From Newsbusters, via Fox Nation: ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: So you are optimistic for this election? You think, no matter who the Republican candidates are, you think Obama is going to win? BILL MAHER: Oh, definitely. My money is still on
– Irony: super transparent, no government secrets Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is getting his own television show … on Kremlin funded and comically controlled RT America, aka Komrade Kommuniqué. It’s the television channel that has given voice to a thousand
Let’s commend Jon Chrisos, co-host of Good Day Maine on WPFO Fox 23 in Portland, ME, for posing a simple and direct challenge to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius: [youtube frWlBWqY0gM] Last night, the President gave his
– Ridiculous. The arrest of “journalists” at the Occupy movement has caused the US to drop in its ranking of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders’ latest Press Freedom Index was released on Wednesday, and the list reflected some of the
– Geraldo: Newt Gingrich called Juan Williams a ‘racial epithet.’ [youtube eiI3EcQ-gBQ nolink] Yes, seriously. [via] – Former John Kerry Staffer Arrested For Disclosing Identities of CIA Operatives Who Interrogated Top Al-Qaeda Leaders To The Media: The Justice Department charged
COnsider it your screencap of the day. I caught this on the livestream for C-SPAN. “Anti-abortion” rally? They don’t even bother to caption the event with its name? Compare to C-SPAN coverage of pro-choice rallies. Did C-SPAN call these “pro-abortion?”
