Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If any of you bloggers are getting disheartened, don’t. The internet does matter, even if gains are slow and grudging. Case in point: the bombed out mosques in Baghdad. The story began in November when the AP reported that Shiite fights had destroyed four Sunni mosques in Baghdad and burned
Continue readingWhile we were all delighting in the tough stance the Australian government has taken towards terrorism, it seems that Australian TV has fallen into the same swamp as American TV, which insists that all people who can claim victimhood must be heard, their complaints taken seriously, and the rest of
Continue readingIt’s not daily media, like the New York Times or the WaPo, but the New Yorker is still media. At Irish Pennants, Jack Kelly details how, in a single paragraph, Nicholas Lemann, the Dean of Columbia Universities Graduate School of Journalism, makes five major factual errors. Kelly’s gracious enough not
Continue readingMy friend Curt, at Flopping Aces, opened the AP can of worms when he questioned an AP report regarding concerning a series of Shia militia attacks upon Sunni mosques in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The reports painted the battle as a fiery bloodbath, with Iraqi Troops just standing
Continue readingAngelina Jolie generally doesn’t even make it as a blip on my radar. To say I find her uninteresting is already to accord her too much space in my brain — except, that is, for today, when a headline in the New York Times piqued my interest, not because it
Continue readingBrent Bozell on identity politics on the road to the White House: The campaigns have just begun, and already, I’ve had just enough of this pandering. Is being black or being female a qualification, something that makes you a superior president? Or is the election of 2008 going to operate
Continue readingDuring a stimulating lunch time conversation, DQ expressed genuine mystification at my post asking whether the media was right all along. In that post, I said I wasn’t going to quarrel with whether the media was right or not about getting into the war (and some post commentors correctly noted
Continue readingIn some recent writings, Rich Lowry and Max Boot have announced that the MSM was right all along in claiming the war a disaster from the get-go. J.R. Dunn, writing at American Thinker, disagrees, and carefully explains why. As for me, I was not a huge hawk at the war’s
Continue readingWe’ve all laughed at Billy Crystal’s savage caricature of Fernando Lamas, a sketch character reportedly born when Crystal heard Lamas, on The Tonight Show, announce that “it is better to look good than to feel good.” That quotation popped into my mind when I read a New York Times style
Continue readingAs we know, reporters in war zones get hurt. In just the most recent war, Michael Kelly died and Bob Woodruff was seriously injured. It’s not new. The famed Robert Capa died in Indochina reporting on the war there. Indeed, reporting can often be a dangerous business, and we can
Continue readingGeorge Bush is such an easy target for the media that it often seems like just a waste of time to go for factual accuracy. Take the Kyto Protocol. A recent AP article makes the casual assertion that “The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush
Continue readingAmericans are increasingly convinced that the war in Iraq is a failure and that the Iraqis are desperados, desperate to see the US leave. Their understanding is unsurprisingly, given that the MSM keeps pressing this view, despite the fact that there is more and more evidence that the media, unable
Continue readingHere are the facts — undisputed facts — as the Defense Department reports them: All active-duty components made their recruiting goals in November, Defense Department officials said today. The Army made 105 percent of goal, the Navy 100 percent, the Marine Corps 104 percent, and the Air Force 100 percent.
Continue readingIf you were wondering about the MSM’s orientation when it comes to war reporting — that is, whether to report good news or bad, failures or successes, spilled blood or new buildings — wonder no more. Howie, at the Jawa Report, ran a test. He took three morning news stories,
Continue readingMy understanding is that, if you have an abuse problem, you can’t treat it until you acknowledge it. I’ve already alluded to the fact that the AP resolutely refuses, ever, to acknowledge mistakes in its reporting. Apparently those who rely on its reporting to advance their agenda also refuse to
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