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CNN Demos 'Cheap,' 'Easy' Pressure Cooker Bomb

CNN Demos 'Cheap,' 'Easy' Pressure Cooker Bomb

CNN commissioned an explosives expert in New Mexico to build and detonate a homemade bomb built from a pressure cooker, filming the blast in slow motion to study the damage it can cause. The demonstration, which premiered on April 22

Alleged L.A. Times Hacker Fired By Reuters

Alleged L.A. Times Hacker Fired By Reuters

Matthew Keys, deputy social media editor at Reuters, was fired by the news agency Monday. Reuters hired Keys in 2012 but suspended the editor in March after federal prosecutors accused the 26-year-old of conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to

More Media Excuses for Ignoring Gosnell Trial

More Media Excuses for Ignoring Gosnell Trial

Liberal commentator Kirsten Powers is credited with shaming the national news media into covering the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Begrudgingly, some of the main stream media have given it lip service as a result. Recently, another liberal pundit, Marc

Barnicle: Bombing A Criminal Act Before Terrorism

Barnicle: Bombing A Criminal Act Before Terrorism

Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC was an endless roundtable of navel gazing and hand wringing over the astounding weekend events in Boston. Regular panelist Mike Barnicle chastised politicians, specifically senators from South Carolina (probably not Tim Scott,) to think stop and consider

Media Campaign Begins to Kill Koch Bros. Tribune Purchase

Media Campaign Begins to Kill Koch Bros. Tribune Purchase

The recent plunge in ratings, readership, revenue, and credibility doesn’t frighten the media — but the idea of diversity-of-thought sure does. With the  news breaking Monday that the Koch Brothers might be interested in purchasing the Tribune Co., the media

Koch Brothers Consider Purchase of Tribune Co.

Koch Brothers Consider Purchase of Tribune Co.

As you read this New York Times story about the Koch Brothers’ apparent interest in making a serious bid for the Tribune Company (publishers of eight local newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune,) ask yourself how outlets

New York Times Rips CNN's Boston Bombing Coverage

New York Times Rips CNN's Boston Bombing Coverage

David Carr of the New York Times details CNN’s “self-inflicted” wounds over the course of last week’s unfurling coverage of the Boston Marathon-bombing manhunt:  But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted — never more so than in June,

New York Times: Gosnell Trial Inconsequential

New York Times: Gosnell Trial Inconsequential

For The New York Times, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal penned an apologia for the progressive media’s disinterest in covering the abortion trial of Kermit Gosnell and essentially claimed that the trial is a meaningless incident when all things are

Flashback: Remnick Accuses Tea Party of Being Motivated By Race

Flashback: Remnick Accuses Tea Party of Being Motivated By Race

What a wonderful character insight it is to discover that David Remnick, the same biographer capable of summoning all kinds of eloquence and empathy for Boston’s accused mass-murdering terrorists, is also the same David Remnick that publicly smeared the ridiculously

Boston Bombing: David Remnick Waxes Sympathy Over Evil

Boston Bombing: David Remnick Waxes Sympathy Over Evil

***ADDED: What a non-shock to discover Remnick is able to summon more empathy and eloquence for terrorists accused of mass murder than he did for the ridiculously peaceful Tea Party. Story here. Original story below… It is one thing to

Politico Says Bombers' Motives 'Far From Obvious'

Politico Says Bombers' Motives 'Far From Obvious'

For Politico, the motivation for the bombers who murdered innocent civilians at the Boston Marathon simply isn’t very clear.  Politico asks rhetorically, “Chechens have been locked for nearly two decades in a bitter, violent conflict against the Russian government. But