Tag: Media

Late Night Video — Ginger Gibson on the Fact Checker Hotseat

Filed in National by on October 14, 2013 3 Comments
Late Night Video — Ginger Gibson on the Fact Checker Hotseat

Former NJ reporter Ginger Gibson was on Reliable Sources on Sunday speaking to their stand in media critic (Frank Senso), who asked her what she did with the factchecking that gets produced by the various organizations doing this. She told him she ignored it, and we’re off to the races:

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A Short History of ‘Liberal Bias’ in the Media

Filed in National by on April 20, 2012 2 Comments
A Short History of ‘Liberal Bias’ in the Media

When Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum both complain of bias from Fox News that catches one’s attention. When two columnists “report” that some see “that Fox News is morphing into just another liberal leaning voice” (link), one starts to laugh and laugh.

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Sunday Open Thread [2.5.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on February 5, 2012 22 Comments

It is Super Bowl Sunday and many of you are tending to the food and drinks (and fine tuning the color calibrations on your TVs) that you’ll serve at your parties this evening. In case you’ve a few lazy minutes today to catch up on some reading, the theme of this Open Thread is The Media.

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In Which We Find the Media as Broken as the Republican Party

Filed in National by on July 31, 2011 10 Comments
In Which We Find the Media as Broken as the Republican Party

I wish I could stop being stunned at how badly our MSM can be in telling the public about the issues of the day. But I’m seeing more and more criticism of the coverage of this issue that I wonder if we aren’t looking at a point somewhere in the next weeks or months where our media does some of the sheepish navel gazing that followed when it became really plain that the Iraq War was done on a very large bed of lies that the media did little (except for the McClatchy organization) to try to check up on.

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BBC Criticized for “Fake Balance” in Science Reporting

Filed in Science and Health by on July 25, 2011 3 Comments

The British Broadcasting Corporation recently commissioned a report surveying the coverage of science topics across all of their departments and networks. Led by Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London, with content analysis support provided by a team from the Imperial College London.

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Farewell — Bob Herbert’s Last NYT Column

Filed in National by on March 27, 2011 1 Comment

Bob Herbert has spent years writing about lives and challenges of those increasingly voiceless and often invisible in our society.   He has been a fiercely moral voice writing about the immorality of torture, killing, institutional injustice against the poor, or working people or minorities — always making the case that you can’t be a great nation by demonizing and dehumanizing those who aren’t so fortunate.  There is alot to commend about his career — I probably remember best his writing against torture and his dogged effort to not let the people of Tulia targeted by law enforcement out of control get out of our sight.

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AOL To Buy The Huffington Post

Filed in National by on February 7, 2011 6 Comments

AOL has announced the acquisition of the Huffington Post for a reported $315M. Arianna Huffington will become the editor-in-chief of the new entity.

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30 Media Heroes

Filed in National by on November 30, 2010 6 Comments

Having some fun with the Salon Hack 30 list, Greg Mitchell over at The Nation challenged his readers to create the 30 Media Heroes list.

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Fake Objectivity

Filed in National by on November 18, 2010 12 Comments

Not sure how many of you have been following the fallout from Keith Olbermann’s suspension from MSNBC. There has been Ted Koppel getting the vapors over the loss of objectivity and waxing nostalgic over perfectly objective times gone by. Or how about Howard Kurtz trotting out some of the tick tock on the MSNBC/Olbermann war.

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It Would NOT Be OK If A Democrat Did This

Filed in National by on October 18, 2010 8 Comments

You’ve probably read already how the teatard candidate for AK-Sen had his hired security guards handcuff and detain — at a public event — a local blogger who wanted ask Miller about some questionable bits about his employment with the Fairbanks North Star Borough. But if you look around the intertubes today, you can see […]

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The Rules of Lying in American Politics

Filed in National by on October 17, 2010 7 Comments

Or….how to lie without the media scrutinizing those lies.

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The News Journal Admits to Deficient Political Coverage

Filed in Delaware by on October 4, 2010 15 Comments

Yesterday, John Sweeney took to the pages of the NJ OpEd page to tell us what we already know — that the media isn’t doing an especially good job at getting political candidates to discuss in detail their approach to issues of concern to voters:

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What If Political Scientists Covered the News?

Filed in National by on June 9, 2010 2 Comments

I’m going to know for absolute certain that there is really and truely a God if I could ever get news written like this:

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