Bookworm on Nov 04 2009 | Filed under: Communism
One of my favorite books, and one I highly recommend, is Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. The title is self-explanatory, so I won’t belabor what you’ll find when you read it. I mention it here because I believe it was in that book that I read that, from the 1950s [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
We conservatives have tended to be “go along to get along” people. If the media says someone is crazy, we back off, ’cause we don’t want to scare ordinary Americans. Mark Steyn usefully reminds us that the media isn’t “ordinary Americans” and that media goals are antithetical to conservative success:
The media would like the American [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
The media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change. That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans (particularly American humans) are solely [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood, Media matters
Hollywood and the media establishment as a whole are inescapable parts of American and, indeed, world culture. It’s fascinating, therefore, to think about the type of patriotism our American media now espouses and that which it embraced in the past. Depending on how one defines patriotism, whether as love of country or love of a [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
The San Francisco Chronicle, although the major newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, is basically fish wrap. Today’s front page story about the protests at town hall meetings, in just the first few paragraphs, reports as true proven lies:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her chamber home for the summer recess with a list of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Media matters
Our world view determines how we process new data. If your world view is bounded by race, every new bit of information is going to be run through that racial filter, and divided into “racist” or “non-racist” categories. If you only have two intake bins, the information has to go into one of them. For [...]
Bookworm on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters
The news story was the beating the Iranian thugs and terrorists took in Basra. But there was another type of thuggery going on, too, and Ralph Peters attacks it with a righteous zeal:
LIKE many Americans, I get angry at biased “reporting” about Iraq and the spin from dishonest pundits. Usually, I get over it [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Media matters
The MSM is going after McCain, but the fact is that, the more they dribble out details about the man, the more I admire what I learn. Regardless of his sometimes flawed political instincts (that campaign financing thing, again), he is a very good human being, and an honorable one too. We know the same [...]
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