Good on them. The AP just sent out a new version of their dubious-sounding story where they say Obama claimed there were 10,000 deaths due to last week’s tornadoes in Kansas (12 people died). Here’s what the new version includes:
Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas […]
I just went to USA Today’s website, and there’s zero mention of the big stories that are rocking Washington. No mention of Kyle Sampson, no mention of Alberto Gonzales, no mention of the US Attorney firing scandal at all.
No mention of the Senate passing the Iraq bill, and only one mention of Iraq and has […]
Fox News pretty much is a dis-information network. They’re the people who labeled Mark Foley a “Democrat” multiple times, the people who said Libby had been found innocent of 1 count, while not mentioning he was guilty on the other four. Check out the below chart I whipped up to show the real world effects […]
Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert asked several guests if they though the cost of war in Iraq was worth fighting. Before he allowed the guests to answer, he flashed a graphic so viewers could see four statistics with which to measure the cost of war in Iraq.
The graphic, which measured the […]
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell shocked quite a few bloggers yesterday on Hardball when she said on air that polling “indicates that most people think in fact that he should be pardoned, that Scooter Libby should be pardoned.” Catch a video of her saying it here.
In fact, the exact opposite is true: an overwhelming majority of Americans […]
Eleven newspapers in six states have now dropped Ann Coulter’s column due to a combination of their own disgust with her recent remarks in which she labelled Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot” and pressure from readers who found Coulter’s remarks and lack of apology inappropriate. Here is the complete list, as compiled by […]
Turns out three other papers announced last week that that they were dropping Coulter and nobody noticed the Reuters article about it. So here’s the new, complete list:
Antelope Valley Press (California)
Pasadena Star-News (California)
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (California)
Whittier Daily News […]
Two more papers just dropped Coulter’s syndicated column today. That makes 7 and you can bet there are more of them that will do the same if we pressure them enough. Here’s a list of the 7 papers who have now bowed to readers’ requests and dropped Ann Coulter’s column as a result of her […]
Leaked… The current issue of TIME is the March 12th edition. The next one, March 19th, will feature this cover:
As part of CBS News/Katie Couric’s bid to “revolutionize the nightly television news” format, they’re trying all sorts of new things. And one of them is to expand their “nightly news” brand to, well, things that are neither nightly, televised, nor news.
One of the ways they’ve tried to expand is by offering exclusive web content. […]
Man, what is it with people saying awful stuff over the last couple of days on air? Here’s a couple of things I’ve heard over the last few days, each with videos.
NBC “Today Show” co-host Campbell Brown:
It’s difficult to say that you’re against the war and at the same time not say that you’re against […]
Dear Politico’s Mike Allen,
Stop writing inane stories about Barack Obama that blow trivial things out of proportion.
(I should explain that Allen has a personal grudge against Obama because the latter wouldn’t answer questions once when Allen ambushed him coming out of a campaign event at a time he wasn’t taking any questions from the press […]
ThinkProgress has some astute observations about the media’s coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death:
NBC’s Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds to Anna Nicole. CNN referenced Anna Nicole 522% more frequently than it did Iraq. MSNBC was even worse — 708% more references to Anna Nicole than Iraq.
Here’s […]
News organizations will fight to make Lewis Libby’s grand jury testimony public, a new report from the Associated Press indicates. Just getting the tapes allowed in testimony was a task Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald took on personally, with Team Libby fighting it all the way. Says the AP: “Trial evidence is normally public and all […]
The New York Times and the Washington Post, the two most influential newspapers in Washington (the Post does not publish nationwide unlike the Times) have matching headlines today calling the situation in Iraq “bleak.” From the Times:
The release on Friday of portions of a bleak new National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq’s future left the White […]
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