Filed at 5:43 pm, Friday February 02nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
If you’ve been to the Drudge Report today, you might have noticed the an ad from CNN attacking Fox News. Although it advertises Anderson Cooper, here’s one of the frames in the animated ad, which ends with the words “It’s called journalism.”
Apparently CNN is placing a print-version of the advertisement in Television Week, which you […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Fox News Vice President John Moody admitted to the New York Times that the network’s hosts made mistakes promoting the hoax story published by the right-wing online magazine Insight (a publication of the also hyper-biased and unreliable Washington Times), which suggested the Clinton camp was had discovered that Obama was raised as a fundamentalist Muslim […]
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Filed at 4:49 pm, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Ugh. Seems like The Politico is a fan of Little Joey:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman D-Conn., will be on [Fox News Sunday], sounding hawkish yet soothingly sensible about the war.
Eh, well maybe they’re fans, or maybe they think they’re sounding snarky or “fun” like ABC’s The Note. By the way, Little Joey announced on FNS […]
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Filed at 3:24 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Photo by spcoon.
As you probably already knew, there’s a major rally down on the Mall in Washington today protesting against the President’s escalation plan in Iraq and in favor of withdrawal. While no hard numbers are available for how many people are in attendance, most news organizations are estimating in the tens of thousands.
Among the […]
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Filed at 8:30 am, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
And the worst headline of the day goes to…
… The Washington Post. It’s borderline irresponsible to use the words “Bush,” “Solve,” and “Iraq” in the same sentence, much less a headline. Is it just me, or does this headline suggest that by ignoring a co-equal branch of government (in this case, Congress), the President will […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Tuesday January 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I have to say, I feel really sorry for anybody who believed for one second either that Senator Obama was raised as a radical Muslim, or that Senator Clinton’s oppo-research team wants you to think that he is. Luckily, both right-wing smears have been entirely debunked. If you haven’t been following the story, here’s […]
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Filed at 2:48 pm, Monday January 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Purely hypothetical situation here.
Let’s say that government officials are investigating an alleged plot to attack the USA, and it remains totally quiet, airtight, and 100% classified for six whole months, and then all of a sudden it gets leaked the day before before a major policy address (let’s say the State of the Union […]
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Filed at 10:34 pm, Saturday January 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Ugh, captains-of-the-obvious Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny of the NYT, emphasis mine:
“I’m in,†Mrs. Clinton said in an e-mail message to supporters early yesterday. “And I’m in to win.â€
If successful, Mrs. Clinton, 59, would be the first female nominee of a major American political party, and she would become the first spouse of a former […]
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Filed at 7:25 pm, Monday January 15th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Welcome to the Associated Press comedy club. Typical one liners two liners include:
President Bush once said he was determined to stick with the Iraq war even if his wife and his dog were the only ones left at his side.
It’s moving in that direction.
Badabummpa! (That was a drum-roll and a cymbal in case you couldn’t […]
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Filed at 9:49 am, Saturday January 13th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I discovered yesterday that the hotel I’m staying at in the DC area offers the Washington Times. Not the Washington Post, the Washington Times. I guess that sort of alleviates any doubt as to what the political views of the manager of the hotel are. Anyways, after getting over my initial shock, which turned to […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Wednesday January 10th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
What do Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have in common with each other that John McCain and Barack Obama don’t? Hometown press that’s out to get them.
On the “left” in Massachusetts (where Romney finished his Governor’s term on January 4th), The Boston Globe will be hitting the Mitt with all they’ve got- and investigating the […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Saturday January 06th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
CNN has another one of their “hard news” specials on their website for you to enjoy:
Oh brother. I can’t link to it directly, but they’re probably still advertising it on their homepage. If not, check their video player where you should be able to browse to it. That is, if you’re in the mood to […]
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Filed at 3:41 pm, Friday January 05th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I talked with the reporter who wrote that “Light moments” McClatchy article I mentioned earlier today. It turns out that he originally had worded things differently but that his editor had changed his more appropriate wording to “walked” in order to save space. He seemed a bit bemused as well and thanked me for the […]
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Filed at 6:21 pm, Wednesday January 03rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Saddam- Mystery solved
As people who have seen the officially released video of Saddam Hussein’s execution courtesy of Iraqi state television already know, there was no audio released with it. In an analysis I wrote for TVNewser hours after the video was released, I noted this lack of audio, saying:
CNN’s international channel broadcast footage of Saddam’s […]
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Filed at 6:48 pm, Tuesday January 02nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Feeling down? Knight Ridder papers (recently bought by McClatchy) now have a “Special Reports” section section devoted solely to “good news.”
What’s it called? “Some Good News.”
And it’s got nothing but uplifting stories, such as “Fewer Americans injured, killed on the job” and “A new approach reveals which social programs work.” Hahaha this is hilarious. Interstingly […]
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