Big Journalism

We are used to shocking billboards in Las Vegas. Usually they are near The Strip and they show bodies in various stages of undress. These latest shocking billboards make a clear political statement.  The War on Wall St. took to

Former Vice President Al Gore once joked, “Al Gore is so boring, his Secret Service code name is Al Gore.” Gore is poised to become a prominent player in Current’s political convention coverage and this may not bode well for

It did not take long for a mainstream media organization to exploit the tragic Sikh temple shootings to link White supremacist groups, of which the shooter was allegedly a part, to the Tea Party.  And of course, the offending organization

How did Joe Soptic become the centerpiece of the attack against Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital? Since the media simply accepts the notion that this guy came out of nowhere and won’t bother to find out, we’ll do the

Air America’s radio efforts failed miserably. Any number of left-wing challengers to Rush Limbaugh have gone down in flames faster than the Hindenburg. Despite all that left-wing radio carnage, the Soros-funded, extreme left-wing Internet site Media Matters for America is

According to The New York Times, President Obama is a “voracious consumer of news.” But he’s not at all happy with a media that has engaged in a one-sided love affair with him. He has harsh words for the media

Mark Bittman, a New York Times food critic, admits he used an “inappropriate phrase” in an August 3 blog posting about Chick-Fil-A. In fact, it was down right Bitter, man, because he seemed to be rejoicing that a vice president

U.S. Olympic Hurdler Lolo Jones was slammed by The New York Times as a woman of little accomplishment, a flimsy girl not sufficiently woman’s libby enough, one that is all show and no go and during an August 8 appearance

In 2010, stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harmon bought Newsweek for $1. This year his surviving family members ended their support for the magazine. It may have been a good decision, since Newsweek can’t even seem to keep its own cover

Huffington Post chose some rather odd rhetoric to identify Romney’s Jewish fans that were eager to get the candidate’s photo at a Wednesday appearance. The Aug. 8 HuffPo posting carries the odd headline, “Mitt Romney’s Motorcade Chased By Pack Of

I spent this last week vacationing with my wife in Paris. Between visits to historic sites like the Louvre and Versailles, my wife and I noticed something very odd: nobody seemed to be working. The sidewalk cafes were chock full

When word leaked that a conservative super PAC run by Joe Ricketts had considered–but had decided against–an advertising campaign highlighting Barack Obama’s 20-year relationship with the incendiary pastor Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media, and the New York Times in particular,

Right now the biggest political story of the day is the disgraceful ad released by the pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA, that shamelessly, openly, and falsely blames Mitt Romney for the death of a woman afflicted with cancer. In the

ABC News is at it again, misidentifying a mass murderer as part of the “right” in America today. And, naturally, it was Brian Ross who did the dirty deed, claiming the man responsible for killing several Sikh temple goers in

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed The Drudge Report, one of the most popular news aggregation websites on the net, as an unworthy source of news. During the August 7 Press Briefing, Carney said “be mindful of your sources”

Obama’s super PAC, Priorities USA Action, put out an ad so vile, so filled with lies that even his usually lapdog media couldn’t stand by and strain credulity to say that the ad was anything other than a lie. Even

ABC has now doubled down on its “happy talk” towards gang warfare. I don’t know what else to call this.  This is about Serena Williams and the Crip Walk, Part II. After the weekend crew called the “Crip Walk” a

Alan Caruba, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for over 30 years and founder of The National Anxiety Center, which serves as a clearinghouse to debunk mainstream media “scare campaigns,” took ABC News to task for its

AOL’s Huffington Post featured a joke about the Wisconsin shootings by Twitter “personality” @Shoq on their front page only hours after the tradegy. While most civilized human beings would consider the incident off limits for a humor, since the joke

The new owner of the Orange County Register is telling his new employees that he wants to hire “more of them.” He also intends to actually expand the paper whereas the rest of the industry seems to be contracting. New

For the Minneapolis Post, columnist John Reinan has a very interesting piece noting that many once powerful city newspapers are being forced by industry loses to abandon their palatial, decades old headquarters buildings. Many of these buildings are grand, often

A University of Missouri study has found that nations with the happiest citizens share something in common. They also have an established tradition of a free press. Missouri University Journalism student Edson Tandoc, Jr. and co-author, Bruno Takahashi from Michigan

We now know that the Old Media has arrived at a two-pronged attack on Mitt Romney in order to help Barack Obama win a second term. The first is repeating false claims that Romney is a tax evader — thereby

Ben Smith of Buzzfeed recently wrote about campaign donations — both Romney’s and Obama’s — for this presidential election. In an otherwise fairly informative piece, Smith feeds into one of the myths about the 2008 election, the claim that Obama’s

There’s no question that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is an absolute political genius — as is the Obama campaign and Obama’s Palace Guards in the media. Having Reid openly and audaciously lie about a Bain investor telling him that