Posts tagged 'mainstream media'

CBS Evening News Decries Lack of “Diversity” in FDNY

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Media

On last Monday’s CBS Evening News, Katie Couric lamented the New York City Fire Department’s lack of “diversity.” She reported how “…a federal judge says something is missing in their ranks: Diversity.” Jim Axelrod noted: “Fire Captain Paul Washington has a big problem with his department.” Washington declared the FDNY to be “all-white, lily white.” [...]

Bill Press Mocks Those Who Criticize Interpretation of 14th Amendment

by SteveK @ Saturday, August 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education, Government, History, Judicial Tyranny, Media, National Security

In light of the resulting drain on social services, increased crime, school crowding, and economic impact of illegal immigration, the time to end so-called “anchor babies” is long overdue. However, on his Aug. 4 program, liberal talk show host Bill Press became unhinged over U.S. Senators who questioned the modern interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Sen. [...]

Shirley Sherrod Should Drop Case Against Breitbart

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Media

Shirley Sherrod plans to sue Andrew Breitbart over the excerpted videotape showing Sherrod expressing racist sentiments. The general narrative goes something like this: Sherrod is this innocent, non-racist woman who was unfairly depicted as a bigot by the ‘right-wing attack machine’, and very temporarily lost her job. Now it seems the video’s impression might be [...]

Disgraceful: Liberal JournoList Promotes Use of Lies and Misinformation

by SteveK @ Saturday, July 24th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Media

It matters little that JournoList founder, Ezra Klein, a prominent writer for the Washington Post, has recently shut the e-mail listserv down. Their intent was uncovered proving conclusively that our establishment media cannot be trusted.
Some background info:
Just in case you’ve been living in a cave, or if you only get your news from MSNBC, here’s [...]

Why Is Hollywood and the Big Media So Fond of Authoritarian Governments?

by SteveK @ Monday, July 19th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Media

Expanding on a Jonah Goldberg column in which he ponders New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s fawning admiration of Communist China:
According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in his mega-selling book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” China banned plastic bags a few years ago. “Bam! Just like that — 1.3 billion people, theoretically, [...]

Helen Thomas – Media Icon of Hate and Anti-Semitism

by SteveK @ Thursday, June 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Media

Helen Thomas, superstar of the left, was asked her opinion about the Jews at a Jewish heritage event at the White House. She replied that they should “get the hell out of Palestine,” and when asked where they should go, she snapped “home” to Germany and Poland, where butchered in the Holocaust.
In defense of Helen, [...]

Shameful Media Once Again Humanizes Terrorists

by SteveK @ Wednesday, May 12th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Media, Middle East, National Security, Religion

A recent article in The Associated Press highlighted the troubles of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, citing how “his life seemed to unravel.”
“He left a job at a global marketing firm he’d held for three years, lost his home to foreclosure and moved into an apartment in an impoverished neighborhood in Bridgeport.”
Of course, the [...]

Only 55% of Voters Believe Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Contributions

by SteveK @ Tuesday, April 13th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Media

Rasmussen Reports found in a survey of 1,000 “likely voters” that:
“Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters continue to think that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions, identical to the finding in August 2008.”
That number should be much higher.
However, the media is now quasi state-run, in that their political [...]

Keith Olbermann’s Race-Bating Attacks on Tea Parties

by SteveK @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Media

Olbermann believes that because he does not see X number of minorities at Tea Parties, the Tea Parties must all be racists. On a recent show he kept repeating the question: “Where are the people of color at the Tea parties?” (there are some, but not enough for Keith apparently)
The answer may very well be [...]

Over 40 Surveys Reveal The Views of Those in the Establishment Media

by SteveK @ Thursday, February 18th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Media

Here is an interesting compilation that is not new for many, but will be an eye-opener for many others.
The Media Research Center has assembled a new resource called Media Bias 101, which summarizes more than 25 years of research showing how journalists vote, what journalists think, what the public thinks about the media, and what [...]

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