All Posts Tagged With: "Media Watchdog"
Roger Ailes Exposé in Rolling Stone
If you have 15 minutes, do yourself a favor and read the exposé of Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News in Rolling Stone. I had heard a good deal of the information before, but the story has been well researched and documented and weaved into a full picture of the man, his mindset and [...]
26May2011 | liberalgeek | 8 comments | Continued
News Journal Deathspiral News
Gannett confirms more furloughs.
Despite all of your truly remarkable efforts to reverse the trend, our revenue numbers continue their downward slide and we have been faced with more difficult decisions.
One of those choices was between more layoffs or another round of furloughs. We chose, for most employees, a furlough program consisting of at least one [...]
Celia Cohen: A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Delaware Way
One of the first businesses affected by the downturn in business was Celia Cohen’s Grapevine “blog.” Perhaps Celia had seen her 401K get large enough that she didn’t have to work any more. Who knows. But one thing is certain, she wants back into the game.
We know Celia for the fawning, inside [...]
If You’re Wrong, Get Out of the Way
This advise to the GOP seems perfect today:
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The Making of a Conservative Lie
Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly points out how a conservative set of lies became “news” this week. It begins with this lie from Betsy McCaughey who works for a wingnut think tank, published in the opinion section of Bloomberg:
Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a “new bureaucracy” called the [...]
And the Media Gets Played By the GOP Again
Remember that recent CBO report that media types and Republicans have been breathlessly citing as an analysis as to why the stimulus package won’t work?
Well, it turns out that no such report exists:
Reports of a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, showing that the vast majority of the money in the stimulus package won’t [...]
Chuck Todd to be WH Correspondent for NBC
We love Chuck Todd around here. Pandora quite possibly loves him too much. Apparently, he will be moving from the analysis chair to using the White House as his backdrop. NBC has named him their Chief White House Correspondent.
I remember that I was quite envious of a shirt that I saw on a college student [...]
Familiar Name on Tax Scofflaw List
A reader tipped us off to the fact that the Delaware Division of Revenue has released their annual list of top tax delinquents. On the list is an interesting name, James D Guckert. Mr. Guckert is also known as Jeff Gannon.
Gannon/Guckert became famous when he posed as a real reporter and made his way into [...]
Stab it, drowned it, shoot it, and still it lives….
A lot of people continue to document the fact that Republicans and outright Republican shills are WAY over represented on TV news and yet the myth of the liberal media is the unkillable Rasputin meme of our age.
Keeping Score
Highlighted this before, but on the teevee on Sunday we have:
7 Appearances by Republican current elected officeholders
3 [...]
Do This Today
Mike Matthews (from Down With Absolutes) has posted his excellent writeup on the utterly industry-funded candidate for Insurance Commissioner, Gene Reed over at his blog at Delawareonline. His blog entry is currently on the front page of the WNJ’s website.
Forget that the new version of delawareonline.com is a perfect mess (it simply won’t [...]
Allan Loudell Supports McCain?
Dear Allan,
I think you are great, but I might have to remove that question mark if I hear more drive time reports like tonights.
Now, I didn’t hear the whole drive time news, but what I heard was unsettling. First off, when Rakestraw was asked about her thoughts on the Democratic race he [...]
The New York Times (Hearts) Islamo-Fascisim
It is the evil Lib’rul media I tell ya!
Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail to Politico: “The story is not the story. The story is the Drive By media turning on its favorite maverick and trying to take him out. The media picked the GOP’s candidate, the NYT endorsed him while they sat on [...]
Huffington on Bhutto
I was checking out HuffPo this morning when I happened upon Arrianna Huffington’s post about the Benazir Bhutto that she knew. I think it is a wonderful epitaph.
31Dec2007 | liberalgeek | Comments Off | Continued
Remember the Days Before Cookie Monster Went Straight?
I laughed when I saw that the old episodes of Sesame Street (now on DVD) come equipped with a parental warning. Apparently, some of the scenes are too racy for kids today. I tell you, my biggest reservation about Al Gore as a public official is that his wife was so instrumental in creating the [...]
18Nov2007 | liberalgeek | 1 comment | Continued
wooohoooo, liberal media!!!
CBS Early Show Removes Anti-War Protesters from View in Kansas City
6Sep2007 | Donvictimiti | Comments Off | Continued
New media watchdog feature: Props and Flops
In the spirit of Stephen Colbert’s “Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger” I’ll be comparing and contrasting instances of Delaware’s crappy msm journalism with instances of Delaware’s even more crappy msm journalism. Volume 1 Number 1…here we go
Props to NJ Blogger Ryan comier for this observation:
“Oh man, I wish I could go back [...]
Fair Use Disney Mashup
This is pretty funny and informative.
Jason Ads this From Wikipedia:
The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998—alternatively known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act or pejoratively as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act—extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. Before the Act (under the Copyright Act of 1976), copyright would last for [...]
Comment Rescue: Waiting for the News Journal and other futile endeavours
Dana has a post up about how the News Journal is not covering an proposed change to the Wilmington’s city charter (HB 161) which, as Dana puts it “ would change Wilmington’s city charter to make Wilmington residents pay for their sidewalk repair: in effect, reversing by legislative fiat a change to the city [...]
22May2007 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
TUNE INTO AL’S SHOW NOW!
I just faxed a question to his “Rose and a Prayer” guest and if he reads it [AND SHE RESPONDS HONESTLY], it could be explosive.
In the event he does not get to it [OR CHICKENS OUT], I wrote:
please ask if you guest knows of anyone from the “pro-life community” that is considering running in [...]
Katie Couric as an Analog to Iraq
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story about how CBS insiders are calling Katie Couric “an expensive, unfixable mistake.“ I really don’t give a damn about Katie Couric, I’m sure she is a nice person. But this reminded me of another expensive unfixable mistake. Fortunately the CBS unfixable mistake doesn’t cost billions of dollars and thousands [...]
23Apr2007 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
Did anyone watch “Home Makeover” last night?
Personally I was wondering only because I couldn’t sit through all of it. If you didn’t catch it let me lay out for you who the needy family was:
An army veteran that was paralyzed from a roadside bomb. The guy was enlisted and was having a terrible time adjusting to his disability. His house was [...]
Republican Attack Machine Examined
I think we are well served to look back at the Republican attack machine that was unleashed on John Kerry in 2004 – in order to be ready for the next onslaught of lies, fabrications and character assassinations.
This Eric Boehlert column in Media Matters, which looks back at the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,” [...]
Imus is Done
Don Imus was cut loose from CBS today in the culmination of his week-long battle with his critics. Now I may be alone in this, but don’t think this was quite a fair state of affairs. I am no Imus fan, but a personality that I am a fan of, Bill Maher, was [...]
12Apr2007 | liberalgeek | 51 comments | Continued
Balance? Never on Sunday
Media Matters has done a survey of the Sunday morning talk shows and found that they are still more conservative than liberal. The leading theory on the imbalance in the past has been that the Republic Party had controlled both houses of Congress, so they got more time. Since the Dems won both [...]
13Mar2007 | liberalgeek | 5 comments | Continued
This story is going to go national
I’ll put money on it.
Man caught after pants fall around knees during foot chase
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