Bookworm on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
The answer to the above question: When it’s impossible to distinguish the satire from the real thing.
I received several emails today alerting me to a post at Power Line that purported to reprint a directive from a powerful person at a major media outlet, describing how to cover the upcoming Republican Convention. Here, let me [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Energy, Media matters, Republicans
You’ve all heard the question that is the title of my post, haven’t you? Is an audience necessary for a sound to have meaning or even existence? And what if, in our world, the intermediary to the audience bugs out? That’s today’s question, as Republicans vigorously debate the new drilling despite the fact that, Pelosi [...]
Bookworm on Jul 28 2008 | Filed under: John Edwards, Media matters
Yesterday, I blogged about the fact that the British media is not only noting the John Edwards paternity scandal, but is pointing to double-standards in the American media. (Say it ain’t so, Joe!) Today, Deceiver.com has a splendid rundown of the scandal’s history, from the first moment Rielle Hunter appeared on the world’s radar. It’s [...]
Bookworm on Jul 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
I can’t stand Stephen Sondheim, but I’ve always found rather amusing one of his songs from Into the Woods, the one that tells the boring and pathetic tales purportedly behind the fairy tales). The song is called “Your Fault,” and sees each of the lead characters passing the buck, disclaiming any responsibility for all the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Media matters
The LA Times has mounted a spirited defense against the ever increasing volume of reader complaints the Times is getting about its loving coverage of Obama, especially when contrasted with the fact that its McCain coverage is minimal and fairly hostile. Here’s the key part of its defense:
[I]t’s the string of Page 1 stories and [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe, Media matters
In an amusing article that compiles examples of American and European media hysteria about Obama’s world tour (think Madonna and the Beatles, only bigger), Denis Boyles makes an interesting point about the European fixation with an Obama (read: black) Presidency:
Anyway, the gist: Europeans really really want Obama to be the next U.S. president, just as [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Media matters, Presidential elections
The Times may have refused to publish McCain’s Iraq editorial (afraid, no doubt, that publishing it would cast a shadow on Obama’s purported wisdom), but I have no such fear. Here’s, courtesy of the Drudge Report, is the op-ed McCain wrote — and it’s an op-ed that any reasonable, non-partisan newspaper would have freely printed:
In [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters
I’ve been moving around the internet a bit looking at stories about the way in which Israel turned a brutal, mass murderer over in exchange for two bodies. What’s fascinating is that the stories keep calling it a “prisoner swap,” as if there’s parity in the exchange. Prisoner swap, after all, implies that Israel gave [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Muslim violence
Palestinians and Hezbollah are wildly celebrating the release of a great Lebanese hero, Samir Kuntar, from Israeli prison. Their excitement matches that felt in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was finally released. Nelson Mandela, of course, was a principled man who spoke up against apartheid and was imprisoned for exercising his freedom of speech against [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
The press continues to shape public perceptions, but people are starting to wise up to the fact that the press often has no idea what it’s doing (especially when it comes to military matters) and that it either outright lies or misrepresents through omission. The Confederate Yankee just found a photographic example in which the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I know that you’ve already read about, and probably seen, the New Yorker’s latest cover, the “parody” of “right wing” views about Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama. I think Charles Johnson has the best summation of the New Yorker’s thinking (along with a reproduction of the cover):
The cover is obviously a moonbat parody of what [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters
The story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing. According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose:
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Honest Reporting captured the first spin that the BBC put on the terrible story of the latest massacre in Israel (a Palestinian versus Israelis, of course) — and, as always, it was Israel who was spun as the brutal aggressor. Orwell clearly understood something in the British psyche when he wrote 1984 — or, more [...]
Bookworm on Jun 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
If you haven’t already heard it, please listen to Dennis Prager’s June 26th interview with Dick Morris about Morris’ new book Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies … Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It. You can find [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
There has been speculation lately from those with little us to occupy their brains about whether the snazzy red loafers that adorn the Pope’s feet are Prada. It turns out that they not. Never say that the modern media isn’t heavy on the investigative reporting, right?
This inordinately silly story would not be noteworthy were nit [...]
Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
This sounds dreadful — until you read this, and discover that it’s not dreadful, it’s profoundly dishonest. And it’s the dishonesty that’s the true horror.
Have past elections been characterized by such terrible dishonesty? I wonder if these lies, damn lies and statistics were always out there tainting the flow of information, and we simply didn’t [...]
Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Did you know that a rocket could break a truce? I didn’t. Being neither a scientist nor a weapons expert, nor a member of the MSM, I kind of thought that, absent human intervention, rockets would just lie around inert. It’s just always seemed to me that, for a rocket to fly through the air [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Media matters
One of the things I’ve always admired about Harry Truman is the fact that he was able to separate principles from personal preferences. He was a racist who integrated the American military and an antisemite who was among the first to recognize the State of Israel.
I keep thinking of Truman when I see the American [...]
Bookworm on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Media matters
I highly (really highly) recommend that you read Paul Kengor’s piece in today’s American Thinker, Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists. In it, he describes a struggle I remember well from the 1970s (when I became politically aware during the end of the Vietnam era) through the 1990s (during which time I was [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Iraq, Media matters
There is an absolutely staggering editorial in today’s Washington Post — it admits that, John Rockefeller’s “official” indictment to the contrary, Bush did not lie. If anything, Rockefeller, in his official Senate Intelligence Committee report is lying by reaching conclusions at odds with his own evidence:
Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
One would think that, now that the candidates for both parties are known, both of their vice-presidential choices would be the issue. How naive I am. In media-land, there’s really only one party running for the White House — the Democrats and some sort of vaguely known, but not really worrisome, opposition. Or [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Media matters
Remember a year and a half ago when the MSM, directly and indirectly, assured us that Hillary’s candidacy was inevitable?
Bookworm on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sex
The CDC did a study about teen sexuality. Here’s how The Telegraph, a leading British news paper spun it:
American teenagers are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and drinking less alcohol than those who grew up in the 1990s, according to a new study.
Amid growing concern about teenage behaviour in Britain, the report by [...]
Bookworm on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
In keeping with the halo the media has placed on Obama, not to mention his own sense of spiritual destiny, PoliSat has written a post and put together a video envisioning the Church of Our Lord Barack Obama — with a hat tip at the end to yours truly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8plz0Qks4o
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Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Medicine
If you stop at the first paragraph of this AP article, you might think that Teddy Kennedy is the only person on earth who has ever faced a cancer surgery as daunting as the one he underwent (emphasis mine):
Bravery in the face of cancer? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has given it new meaning. Few things [...]
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