Obama Seeks to Ban Fox From Press Pool
So first of all a bit of background. The White House press corp has an arrangement called a pool. How it is they take turns covering certain aspects of the…...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
GF Herald Reporter Refers to Tea Party Attendees by Obscene Act
Not that I’m surprised at a lack of class. In other news, teabaggers are mounting an attack on the one party that is sympathetic to their message. And you wonder…...
Friday, August 07, 2009
Americans Approve Of Town Hall Protesters
49% believe “that the protesting citizens are reflecting the concerns of [themselves and] their neighbors.” Looks like that coordinated newpseak campaign from the White House and the MSM isn’t working…...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Ed Schultz: Let’s Make Dick Cheney Pay For Our Health Care!
Yes, it’s a moment of unabashed stupidity from the least-watched man on cable news, but what’s really sad is that Schultz’s blathering is actually the Democrat strategy for selling government…...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Rupert Murdoch Forms External “Diversity Council” For News Corp Media Empire
Folding to pressure from civil rights groups and, uh, “community organizers” still upset about that dead chimp editorial cartoon. News Corp. is forming an external diversity council in response to…...
Monday, June 08, 2009
Economic Reporting Under Bush Vs. Economic Reporting Under Obama
When Bush was President and we were seeing economic expansion the media was nothing but doom and gloom. Now that Obama’s President, no matter what happens to the economy the…...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Bailouts For Newspapers Could Mean Government Trained Reporters
An excellent report from Reason Magazine about newspaper bailouts, including these words that should make chills run down your spine: “a massive public-works program to train journalists.” Because nothing says…...
Monday, May 18, 2009
Fair And Balanced: Television News Was Overwhelmingly In The Tank For Obama’s Stimulus
The liberal, pro-Obama bias in the media is so pervasive that it’s almost not worth mentioning any more. But for what it’s worth: This from the much-heralded “fourth estate,” that…...
Monday, April 20, 2009
Two Pulitzer Prize Winners Unemployed After Winning Award
A sign of the times for big media. No fewer than two winners of the Pulitzer Prize this year were laid off by their employers between the time when they…...
Moral Issue: Grand Forks Herald Shock Reporter Wonders If Controversy He Published Will Get Ugly
Yesterday I did a story about Grand Forks Herald’s outrageous smearing of UND benefactor Ralph Englestad. In a nutshell, Grand Forks Herald Employee Tu Uyen Tran ran a story about…...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Moral Issue: Grand Forks Herald Smears Dead Benefactor To Affect Referendum
Yesterday I did a post about how the Grand Forks Editor and Publisher considers eliminating the University of North Dakota’s athletic nickname a moral issue. A moral issue. Right on…...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Conspiracy News Network (CNN) Reporter: Tea Party’s Are Anti-Government, Anti-CNN
Of course they have every reason to be: But Roesgen cut him off him, saying, “But sir, what does that have to do with taxes? What does this have to…...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Obama Loving Reporters Now Quoting Themselves As Experts On Obama
The self-parody has begun. The insular world of NBC News and MSNBC. In her Tuesday NBC Nightly News story on President Barrack Obama’s status of the economy speech, reporter Savannah…...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Ed Shultz Driving Away MSNBC Viewers Faster Than You Can Say Blowhard
Damn, I was hoping he was leaving North Dakota for good. Initial viewership figures haven’t provided reason to cheer, at least not yet. Debuting on Monday to an average audience…...
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Remember When The New York Times Criticized Obama For Bowing To A King?
Of course you didn’t, because it didn’t happen, but the Times certainly criticized Clinton for almost bowing to Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994: It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr.…...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Democrat Wants Bailout For Big Media
Well, not bailouts specifically, but rather a change in law to allow newspapers to claim tax exempt status. Mar 24th, 2009 | WASHINGTON—Struggling newspapers should be allowed to operate as…...
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Fargo Forum, Grand Forks Herald Slash Jobs Due to Mismanagement
At least the paper’s good for something. How many rounds of job cuts for the Herald? The Grand Forks Herald announced the layoffs of eight full-time employees Thursday. Publication of…...
Friday, February 20, 2009
New York Times Suspends Stocholder Dividends
Uh oh: The New York Times Company suspended dividend payments to shareholders on Thursday for the first time in four decades as a publicly traded company, another in a series…...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Grand Forks Herald Reporter: It’s None of Your Business How Your Tax Money Is Spent
A Grand Forks Herald Reporter’s blog reported on the head of the Grand Forks Economic Development Corporation resigning. In the comments I took the liberaty to question why it’s impossible…...
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The Grand Forks Herald’s Policy of Holding the News
The Grand Forks Herald’s editor had a column today on why they spiked the news story on the sad story of Tom Clifford’s last days. I find this column to…...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Will Obama Be Called Out For Having Scripting His Press Conference The Way Bush Was?
Back in 2003 Bush was criticized by some in the media for scripting his press conferences. Which means, essentially, picking out which reporters would answer questions prior to the event. …...
Friday, February 06, 2009
MSNBC To Republican: Will You Take Credit For People Wearing Cardboard For Shoes If Stimulus Fails?
Because that’s obviously what would happen. MSNBC host Contessa Brewer, in an interview that seemed a lot like a lobbying campaign for the stimulus set for a vote in the…...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Media Begins Hyping Military Suicides Again
It’s the beginning of a new year, so I guess it’s time for the media to start hyping military suicides again. WASHINGTON — The Army is investigating a stunning number…...
Monday, February 02, 2009
NBC: Obama Has “Home Field Advantage” During Interview With Us
Well, you’ve got to give them credit for being honest I guess: During the Superbowl last night, NBC News was running ads for the Today Show touting an interview with…...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Liberals Trying To Revise The History Of Bush’s Tax Cuts
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says that Bush’s tax cuts were “the single most significant bad decision George Bush made” because they squandered an opportunity to pay down the national debt: But…...
Monday, January 05, 2009
Ann Coulter Banned From NBC For Life?
So says Drudge. I wouldn’t call a privately-owned television network’s decision to no longer engage a particular pundit or author for on-air political discussions a “ban.” That smacks of the…...
Saturday, December 27, 2008
In Film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I walked away from the predictable end of Benjamin Button with three nagging sensations: A sore butt from three hours’ sitting, a staunch conviction (read: cognitive dissonance) that those three…...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Grand Forks Herald Worships John Hoeven
This is got to be one of the most sycophant passages the Herald has ever put in one of their editorials. Gov. John Hoeven has shown himself to be a…...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Tax And Spend: Hoeven Announces Plans For A 26% Increase In Government Spending
Which, if Hoeven’s budget were to be passed unchanged, would come on the heels of a 24% increase in spending from the last legislative session. Hoeven’s budget requests $3.11 billion…...
Friday, November 28, 2008
The New York Times: A Confederacy Of Conflicted Buffoons
I couldn’t help but admire the cognitive dissonance on display in the New York Times today. First there was this editorial castigating Americans (not necessarily incorrectly) for spending too much…...
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