NYTimes: We Won’t Publish "Statements that Were Never Intended for the Public Eye."
With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster their own arguments — even the New York Times [...]
"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 [...]
What’s wrong with this correction?
In their September 18 story on the exposure of ACORN by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, Washington Post reporters Darryl Fears and Carol Leonnig fabricated the existence of a quote indicating the existence of a racial animus behind O’Keefe’s work. When called on to supply the quote, the Post instead ran this correction:
Th[e] article [...]
Analogy of the year
Newsweek has selected comedian Steven Colbert to be the “guest editor” of its next edition. Peter Wehner writes:
For those who lament the state of American journalism as having become increasingly unserious, tendentious, and willing to blur important lines, this will become one more data point for them to cite. It is the journalist [...]
Some Muslims Tell Obama What They Want To Hear About From Him
And it’s not how we Americans have maligned the greatness of Islam for far too long, or the importance of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” Pressuring Israel is something he can do on his own time, they seem to be suggesting by omission. What they want to hear about is freedom: freedom to speak without fear [...]
‘It’s hard to get to the truth when your being lied too so eloquently!’
Steve Foley on the Obama administration’s tendency to overstate (and distort) it’s figures (and facts) (Title lifted from Steves piece at The Minority Report).
[...] This administration has a very unnerving tendency to completely overstate it’s figure especially when it comes to the so-called “Stimulus Package”
ABC’s Jake Tapper (who’s fast becoming my favorite MSM journalist [...]
