– 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
by P.J. Salvatore30 Jan 2012, 7:05 AM PST0
If you’re a Twitter user, you might start getting notifications just like this from Twitter in the very near future if you tweet something that some foreign governments don’t like. On Thursday, the social media company announced on its blog
by Liberty Chick30 Jan 2012, 4:58 AM PST0
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
by P.J. Salvatore29 Jan 2012, 5:40 PM PST0
by James Hudnall29 Jan 2012, 2:30 PM PST0
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is featured prominently in a new ad from the Romney campaign focusing on Newt Gingrich’s House ethics violation in the mid-1990s. The ad, entitled “History Lesson,” is a 30 second excerpt from NBC Nightly
by Larry O'Connor29 Jan 2012, 12:18 PM PST0
This may be an all-time record for a “hit piece.” If there is a Hall of Shame for journalism, the Reuters piece done on Marco Rubio will be at the front entrance emblazoned in flashing lights next to the Dan
by Ron Futrell29 Jan 2012, 9:45 AM PST0
This is what real journalism looks like, folks. Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes a 2,300 word piece about Newt Gingrich’s relationship to ethics charges (those brought by and against him) that ends with this rehash of his fall from grace: In
by John Sexton29 Jan 2012, 4:58 AM PST0
by NewsBusters28 Jan 2012, 2:30 PM PST0
Oh look! The Justice Department decides to dump 500 pages on Congress on a Friday night! If they really want to be secretive or different they’d choose to dump documents on a Tuesday night. We’re almost looking forward to Friday
by Mary Chastain28 Jan 2012, 10:08 AM PST0
Real Clear Politics (RCP) soothes me. Just clicking over to their homepage, which I do a few times a day, isn’t just about getting an information fix on the latest polls and headlines, it’s about reaffirming my belief that objective
by John Nolte28 Jan 2012, 9:30 AM PST0
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
by P.J. Salvatore28 Jan 2012, 5:00 AM PST0
As reported by Big Government: Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), who was the subject of allegations of congressional insider trading, has indicated that he will not seek to extend his term as chair of the House Financial Services Committee after 2012.
by Dana Loesch27 Jan 2012, 5:17 PM PST0
If you want a case of clear bias, the Washington D.C. affiliate of CBS will surely fill the bill for its bias against pro-life supporters. On January 23 the DC affiliate featured on its website a photo slide show of
by Warner Todd Huston27 Jan 2012, 3:54 PM PST0
Tablet magazine, the new online Jewish-themed publication that focuses on a broad range of current affairs topics, has taken Media Matters for America (MMfA) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) to task for using antisemitic language in criticizing Israel.
by Joel B. Pollak27 Jan 2012, 12:07 PM PST0
Yesterday Elliot Abrams was part of a calculated effort against one of the GOP primary candidates whose last name wasn’t “Romney.” It’s typical in any primary, but what wasn’t typical was that in this republican primary, the information was misconstrued
by Dana Loesch27 Jan 2012, 9:35 AM PST0
Media outlets didn’t cover March For Life while it happened, despite knowing it was going to happen and hundreds of thousands of people there. News outlets do have stories on it now, but of course the number of people there
by Mary Chastain27 Jan 2012, 9:05 AM PST0
– 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
by P.J. Salvatore27 Jan 2012, 9:01 AM PST0
Is WikiLeaks biased against the West and the US in particular? This news item would tend to indicate so. According to Christian Science Monitor Moscow correspondent Fred Weir, Kremlin-funded media outlet Russia Today is set to hire WikiLeaks founder Julian
by Trevor Loudon27 Jan 2012, 7:10 AM PST0
It’s hard for the Activist Old Media to out-do itself with their leftist bias, but the Romney tax returns have them freaked out. This fits right in their wheelhouse of deception and class envy. The latest is an ABC story
by Ron Futrell27 Jan 2012, 4:58 AM PST0
When John King opened the last CNN-hosted GOP debate with a question regarding Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife, Newt lit into him, putting King on the defensive early. In fact, King remained defensive during CNN’s post-debate report. “This story did not come
by Dan Riehl26 Jan 2012, 3:08 PM PST0
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
by P.J. Salvatore26 Jan 2012, 11:10 AM PST0
Marketplace, the daily business program produced by American Public Media (APM) and broadcast by public radio stations throughout the country, has been doing its best lately to support the decrepit Occupy Wall Street movement. While odd, perhaps, for a program
by Joel B. Pollak26 Jan 2012, 10:49 AM PST0
Reuters this morning published a grossly inaccurate story on Senator Marco Rubio. Among the eight fallacies: Rubio also voted against Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee who is of Puerto Rican descent, and more recently blocked the confirmation of another
by Retracto, The Correction Alpaca26 Jan 2012, 9:53 AM PST0
Big Government reported earlier this morning on a Media Matters for America email on the Keystone Pipeline that exposes the true, partisan lobbying agenda behind everything the tax-exempt group does. The email was sent, apparently in error, to key staff
by Dana Loesch26 Jan 2012, 9:22 AM PST0
– 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
by P.J. Salvatore26 Jan 2012, 8:44 AM PST0