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For the Mainstream Media, the news is not good. A new Pew Research Center study is out today as part of its ongoing Project for Excellence in Journalism. Here’s the headline: NEWS EXECUTIVES, SKEPTICAL OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, SEE OPPORTUNITY IN

In his latest column, Bill O’Reilly thinks it just might be: While many Americans believe the national press is biased toward the left, a more damning charge is now being debated: Are U.S. media outlets actually corrupt? Those who believe

It seems the lovely and talented Rachel Maddow – whose chief claim to fame, besides her sneer, is …what, exactly? – has got her Rhodes Scholar knickers in a twist over the famous O’Keefe/Giles ACORN tapes. She’s seized upon a

First, take a look at this story, which appeared today in Foreign Policy: This week marked the international coming-out party for a new media organization that could upend the sacred cows of traditional journalism. Wikileaks, an Internet-savvy investigative journalism outfit,

Here’s the latest bleat from the not-quite dead-yet MSM, complaining that anonymous commentary is somehow… what? Unfair? Hurtful? Makes you want to run home to mama and cry? Meet Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg: Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote a column

Just in time for Holy Week, the New York Times has escalated its war with Pope Benedict XVI over the “pedophile priests” scandal in a series of harsh attacks, both in the pages of the newspaper and in its editorial

Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times‘s “Top of the Ticket” blog — one of the best, fairest and most readable MSM blogs in the country — comes this lesson in, shall we say, contrast. First this photo, released by the

To close out our day’s discussion of race and racism and the “N-word” — be sure not to deprive yourself of Frank Rich’s latest crazed rant on the subject, ludicrous even by his appallingly low standards of argument and those

The caption contest is now open, so have at it:

First, the obligatory media chorus of “ugliness” at Saturday’s anti-Health Care Bill rally at the Capitol, then the unsubstantiated claims of racist speech. So far, so Saul Alinksy. Now the escalation continues. From Politico: Steny Hoyer: Members are at risk

This hilarious moment of defiant bravado from the Undead brought to you by taxpayer-funded National Public Radio and the Black Knight: ACORN CEO Reflects On The Group’s Hard Times ALLISON KEYES, host: I’m Allison Keyes and this is TELL ME

In the wake of last night’s passage of “Health-Care Reform” — WASHINGTON –The House of Representatives Sunday passed by a 219 to 212 vote the biggest overhaul of the nation’s health care system in more than four decades, sweeping changes

So… what did you think? Or “deem?” Or…? [youtube 5CtaAHn0XwE&feature nolink] As the Poet said: Of Man’s Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of

Pretty darn ignorant, to judge by this story by Ron Grossman in the Chicago Tribune: I took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day, something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz, asking younger colleagues to identify

Would you pay to read the MSM? Not if you’re like most people, according to this AP report of a Pew Research study: Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies

Holland today is probably the worst country in Europe, a sinkhole of social pathologies that would make Berkeley blush. And yet, at every step, the decisions the Dutch took to liberalize their formerly straitlaced Calvinist society seemed to make sense

Failed former New York Times editor and “self-hating Southerner” Howell Raines — whose dubious journalistic legacy includes the Jayson Blair, Rick Bragg, and the Martha Burk fiascoes — has lurched out of the fly-fishing shadows with this bizarre op-ed piece,

Credit where credit is due: Wired Magazine’s Noah Shachtman and Conde Nast have a scoop on their hands. In the course of researching his new and largely fair piece on Andrew Breitbart and the “Big” websites, during which he was

The Left is obsessed with finding “racists” under every bed but their own. No need to go into the long history of institutional racism on the part of the Democrat Party and its stalwarts, no need to remind people that

Is this the new face of the Republican Party? A contender in 2012? Or the male version of Sarah Palin? [youtube nzUqVzlmHzk nolink] In a 24/7, horse-race handicapping, ADD, MSM culture, it’s never too soon to start speculating, is it?

David Broder is known as the “Dean of the Washington press corps,” but it can more accurately be said that he’s the “David Gergen of the Washington press corps:” the apostle of conventional wisdom/custodian of institutional memory/protector of Democrat Party

Ever feel that you’re trapped inside a lunatic asylum, where all the normal rules of logic and discourse have been turned on their heads, and screaming nutbags roam the halls, hurling imprecations at imaginary enemies? A place where up is

New York State, one of the most corrupt political entities on the planet, has long been a graveyard for aspiring African American politicians. As Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins — the first and so far last

For intellectual laziness, lackluster writing and sheer historical dishonesty, it’s hard to beat Frank Rich of the New York Times. Week after week, and at tiresome length, Rich dishes out his regurgitated pensées regarding his pet hobby-horses, including the evil

The Obama Administration’s definition of “bipartisanship” is: “do it our way or else,” which is why — as the sham of the “healthcare summit” plays itself out on national televion — John Kass’s explanation of the Chicago Way is such

Look! It’s you-know-who — the Former Sportscaster and most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College — making a fool of himself again as his unwatched and unwatchable show, Countdown, stumbles clumsily yet vaingloriously toward its inevitable destination, the cancellation slaughterhouse.

No one fully understood how corrupted the American military had become by the corrosive influence of “political correctness” — which more properly should be call “fascism of the mind,” since it seeks to control thought by controlling speech — until

The great Victor Davis Hanson, over at his blog, Works and Days, in the peroration from yesterday’s column, “Where Did Our Real Wealth Go?” Why am I not too optimistic right now? Our President, who submitted the largest deficits in

You probably already know that Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times‘s Week in Review and Book Review sections, published a book last year that must have seemed like a good idea at the time he pitched it

No matter what you think of J.D. Hayworth — former Congressman, talk-show host, anti-illegal immigration hardliner and Abramoff-scarred beneficiary — one thing you’ve got to like about him is that he is mounting a primary challenge to Sen. John McCain

If there’s one thing the Snowpocalypse-hastened collapse of the Great Global Warming Hoax has shown us, among other things, it’s that Mark Steyn, as usual, was right all along, and “Anthropogenic Global Warming” — ridiculous on its face, as anyone

Oops! The wheels may have just come off Al Gore’s Oscar-winning, eco-friendly tricycle/global-warming scam. From the U.K. Times on Line today (Sunday): World may not be warming, say scientists The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists

Is there something in the water at MSNBC that makes everybody there crazy? Morning Joe, which ought to be the premier political talk show on morning television — but won’t be until it expands its guest list beyond Mrs. Alan

As anyone who’s ever lived in our nation’s capital knows, Washington D.C. — which, as JFK famously remarked, combines northern hospitality with southern efficiency — is abysmal at snow removal. And with two major blizzards within a week, the city

Short answer: nobody knows. But given that the West has consistently underestimated — or misrepresented — the Iranian government’s intentions and capabilities, maybe we ought to be paying attention. Especially since they’ve warned us about a stunning “punch” today. Farsi

Try to control your incredulous laughter as Jim VandeHei of Politico heatedly explains to Bill O’Reilly that most MSM reporters don’t really hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. VandeHei acknowledged that the mainstream was late to the tea