Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Thanks to the blogosphere, this hasn’t been a good time for the AP, since it’s been caught with its pants down, exposing what can at best be called shoddy reporting, and at worst reprehensibly dishonest reporting. Rather than apologize and fix the problem, AP has gotten arrogant and refused to
Continue readingI’m less interested in “Little Mosque On the Prairie,” a new Canadian show aiming to take a humorous look at how stressful it is to be a Muslim in the West (which is entirely different, of course from the stresses placed on Christians living in Muslim dominated countries), then I
Continue readingIsrael has usually, although not always, been adept in the battlefield. She’s been a total failure in the media. However, for the first time, I’m seeing signs that she’s fighting back: Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video
Continue readingJules Crittenden, writing at the Boston Herald, has this to say. I’ve added some less than sanguine comments at the end: When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual
Continue readingWorld War II introduced some famous correspondents and photo journalists on the scene, men and women who spread out with the troops and reported their story back to America: Ernie Pyle, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, William Shirer, and Edward R. Murrow, to name but a few. All staunch patriots during
Continue readingStung by charges that it was relying on named, but non-existent, official sources, AP has responded with a new tactic: no sources at all. That takes news to a whole new, very low, level, doesn’t it? del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingI’ve got actual work I have to do today (how dull), so blogging will be light. However, before I sign off to help support my family, I urge you to take some time to check out Michelle Malkin’s comprehensive summary about what’s going on in the fight between AP and
Continue readingDo you remember a duo of Gary Larson Far Side cartoons that took on the different way dogs and cats hear? The first cartoon published was entitled (I think) “What dogs hear.” The top panel showed what people say. With a speech balloon coming out of the person’s mouth, it
Continue readingHere’s a quick chronology, followed by my comments. First, during this summer’s Israeli/Hezbollah War, AP, along with several other news outlets, was shown to have relied upon doctored and staged photographs, and false and/or misleading stories fed to them by local stringers sympathetic to Hezbollah. (You can read all about
Continue readingAn NPR story has noted that the Iraq War has now gone on longer than World War II. That’s a fact and an interesting one. Even more interesting, of course, is how NPR spins the story: Monday, Nov. 27, marks the day when the Iraq war becomes longer than the
Continue reading….and this great “Day by Day” panel has a wonderful plug for Flopping Aces: I was especially glad to see that Chris’ cartoon is now entering the old media. It’s not that I’m an old media fan — as you know — but I do like the idea of his
Continue readingMy friend Curt, who blogs at Flopping Aces, has made a couple of major news discovery: First, the story about Shiite men burning Sunni men alive is almost certainly untrue. Second, the man the MSM identifies as the source for this story has identified himself as an Iraqi Captain is
Continue readingOmeed Aziz Popal, the Fremont, California, man who went on a car fueled rampage in August, during which he killed one man and injured 18 others (including one woman who ended up paralyzed from the neck down) will be tried: Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, faces 18 counts of attempted murder
Continue readingMy host during the Thanksgiving break introduced me to a newspaper called Muslim World Today. It’s editor-in-chief is Tashbih Sayyed, who is also the president of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, which sponsors the paper. The CDT is a grassroots organization which has as its unabashed goal the dethroning
Continue readingWhat were Jewish voters doing last Tuesday? To hear the MSM tout it, they were returning to the Democratic fold in droves, at least according to one exit poll. However, Richard Baehr rides to the rescue to say, “Not so fast, my fine MSM friends.” It turns out that the
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