"Real" Journalism
Anita Dunn, architect of the administration’s “Fox isn’t a real news network” strategy, has singled out one person who does “amazing…journalism.” Who is that? Comedian Jon Stewart.
Of course, to be fair to Ms. Dunn, she may have inferred from the fact that Stewart isn’t funny that he was trying to be a serious [...]
A COIN Flip
Yesterday, rumor swept the dextrosphere that President Barack H. Obama was prepared to accept the recommendation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal; the president, quoth the Great Mentioner, would send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.
And who could doubt the gossip? After all, it came from CBS, bastion of unbiased and utterly credible journalism at the [...]
Civility Quiz
Which is more uncivil and damaging to the very fabric of the Republic?
Michelle Malkin’s politely worded e-mail of inquiry to a pro-Obama activist, which warranted A-1 hand-wringing from the Washington Post?
Or, a newsroom environment where reporters call their editors [expletives that are too dirty to even shorten or suggest on a family blog such [...]
ACORN "Busted" Again: Second Video Released Of Office Willing To Give Tax Advice To Child-Sex-Slavers
ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson’s claim that the initial videos filmed in Baltimore and presented by O’Keefe and his partner-in-sting Hannah Giles were a “smear” and “defamatory,” and that they’d tried the same trick at other offices and came away with no shock video at all, turns out to be only partially true. As it turns [...]
WaPo "selling access" to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors
Is this even legal? How can the Washington Post sell access to what they refer to as “those powerful few”?
And to think that I thought Obama and Congress were already bought and paid for. Now it appears that they and the WaPo are taking it up to a whole new level of corruption in [...]
A tribute to Fox News
Yesterday in Washington Charles Krauthammer received the 2009 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, named for New York Post’s late editorial-page editor. Krauthammer took the occasion to salute FOX News in a speech that will ring a lot of bells with Power Line readers.
Via Lucianne.
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