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The Audit Bureau of Circulation has released circulation figures on the nation's top twenty newspapers, and the overall news isn't good. ABC is an independent organization which measures paid circulation...
Posted on April 29, 2008 1:30 AM
According to a press release from the network, Tony Snow will be joining CNN "as a conservative commentator beginning today." I wish him well. I've always enjoyed his commentary, and...
Posted on April 21, 2008 4:44 PM
Despite a multi-million-dollar contract which runs through 2011, the Katie Couric era could be over at CBS as soon as next January, reports Rebecca Dana for The Wall Street Journal:...
Posted on April 10, 2008 12:31 AM
James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman have lost their "analyst" spots on CNN, perhaps as a result of persistent complaints from the Obama campaign. Greg Sargent reports at The...
Posted on January 26, 2008 1:04 AM
I have a list of complaints against Bill Clinton that would make James Carville wince, and I think he has behaved in a manner unbefitting a former President during this...
Posted on January 24, 2008 3:14 AM
Who knew there was yet another nefarious threat to public safety? That, lurking behind the newspapers, magazines, and glitzy television news shows were violent perpetrators, just waiting to commit mayhem...
Posted on January 21, 2008 4:19 PM
Amid mounting pressure from feminist groups, MSNBC host Chris Mathews apologized for remarks he made about Hillary Clinton, reports Howard Kurtz for the Washington Post: Under pressure from feminist groups...
Posted on January 19, 2008 5:32 AM
At a campaign stop in South Carolina, Mitt Romney gets into a testy exchange with AP reporter Glen Johnson. CBS has the video. To summarize, Johnson - who resembles a...
Posted on January 18, 2008 3:12 AM
The Associated Press has released it's Top Ten News Stories of 2007, as voted by its member editors and news directors: Here are 2007's top 10 stories, as voted by...
Posted on December 22, 2007 2:25 AM
Time magazine has named its "Person of the Year" for 2007: outgoing President Vladimir Putin of Russia. David Morgan reports for Reuters: Time magazine named Russian President Vladimir Putin its...
Posted on December 19, 2007 2:30 PM
You may recall, during the deadliest months of the Iraq War, how major media defended their incessantly negative coverage. It was, as one CNN big-wig put it, their "obligation to...
Posted on December 18, 2007 3:46 AM
Before last week's Democratic debate in Las Vegas on CNN, Hillary Clinton backers issued "warnings" to moderator Wolf Blitzer. Since a Clinton supporter in a conference call had suggested Tim...
Posted on November 20, 2007 4:00 PM
The Audit Bureau of Circulation released circulation figures for the nation's daily newspapers based on the reporting period ended in September, and the news isn't good. Only four of the...
Posted on November 6, 2007 12:43 AM
Take The New York Times' Employee Entrance Exam over at The Nose On Your Face. Proficiency at writing fiction preferred; the ability to ignore inconvenient facts required. My favorite question:...
Posted on October 20, 2007 2:10 AM
The Washington Post has done as fine a job of any Old Media outlet in burying good news from Iraq, including regarding the "surge" strategy, deep inside the paper or...
Posted on October 15, 2007 2:48 PM
After The New Republic published purported "Iraq diaries" by an active-duty deployed soldier, Scott Beauchamp, which swiftly proved implausible and unverifiable, they promised a swift investigation into the matter. Since...
Posted on October 11, 2007 2:10 AM
In the posturing world of Middle Eastern diplomacy, you don't have to be "peace loving," just claim you are. Caroline Glick reports for the Jerusalem Post: As Abu Toameh noted,...
Posted on October 2, 2007 1:52 AM
Several prominent Democrats, including Senators John Kerry and Jim Webb, have condemned Rush Limbaugh for a comment he made on his radio show about "phony soldiers." The leftist website Media...
Posted on September 30, 2007 3:19 AM
Challenged by Bloomberg Television's Al Hunt that Senator Barack Obama is the same age Clinton was when he first ran for President, President Bill Clinton brought the hammer down. Kristin...
Posted on September 29, 2007 2:31 AM
Rudy Giuliani is being endorsed by Pete Wilson, while Hillary Clinton gets the nod from Evan Bayh and Wes Clark. But who will God vote for? Check the God-o-Meter from...
Posted on September 27, 2007 4:01 PM
The most influential spiritual leader in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has issued a statement condemning media depictions of the situation in Iraq as a "civil war." The Iranian Mehr...
Posted on September 27, 2007 5:18 AM
National "Public" Radio has turned down an interview with the President, Howard Kurtz reports for the Washington Post : The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the...
Posted on September 26, 2007 1:54 AM
Ah, the independent press. . . Ben Smith reports for The Politico: Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for president learned that the men's magazine GQ was working...
Posted on September 24, 2007 5:28 PM
Now that The New York Times has declared the discount rate given MoveOn.org for their "General Betray Us" ad attacking the character of General David Petraeus was an "error," MoveOn...
Posted on September 24, 2007 3:17 AM
The official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority - yes, that same outfit we are sending millions of taxpayer dollars to support because they are the "moderates" - has once again...
Posted on September 17, 2007 5:37 PM
ABC News is re-opening its investigation into news reports based on information from Alexis Debat after he was discovered to have a phony resume and published fake interviews, Bill Carter...
Posted on September 14, 2007 2:49 PM
The recent video from Osama bin Laden raises as many questions as it answers. Is it a "trigger" for new attacks? Did these include the recently thwarted plots in Denmark...
Posted on September 9, 2007 2:49 AM
While you peons are expected to bike it or car-pool, the self-indulgent elitists look down on you from their fossil-fuel-guzzling private jets, and sneer. Via Drudge: As former Vice President...
Posted on September 7, 2007 4:35 PM
The award-winning mini-series "The Path to 9/11" was supposed to be released on DVD this spring, but it still hasn't been, nor has a date been set. The writer claims...
Posted on September 5, 2007 2:44 PM
CBS is sending Katie Couric to Iraq. Unfortunately, they also intend to bring her back. Michael Learmonth reports for Variety: One year after Couric jumped from NBC's "Today" to CBS...
Posted on August 29, 2007 4:28 AM
Two cable networks have declined to run pro-war commercials, John Hinderaker notes at Power Line: We wrote here about the television commercials that Freedom's Watch has produced, featuring veterans and...
Posted on August 28, 2007 2:35 PM
A new Harvard study shows newspapers and television losing news audiences to the internet. The AFP report is at Breitbart.com: News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the...
Posted on August 16, 2007 11:15 PM
Pew Research polling is generally regarded as leaning somewhat to the left, but their new poll on news media echoes mainstream conservative opinion. From Breitbart.com: And poll respondents who use...
Posted on August 9, 2007 11:08 PM
ABC's World News Tonight won the ratings race for April and is leading the May sweeps period so far. CBS' Evening News with Katie Couric is last with a 20-year...
Posted on May 9, 2007 1:14 AM
Especially on days when they give me so many good stories to blog about. Today's one of those days, and there are so many, I'm gonna stick a bunch in...
Posted on January 12, 2006 2:00 PM
"[Y]ou know, they're talking about giving Katie Couric $20 million. I say take that $20 million you could buy 40 reporters, 40 new reporters. You could give them each $250,000."Andy...
Posted on January 9, 2006 1:12 AM
Confederate Yankee has a rather good piece up that takes the New York Times to task for an article they published on body armor and the US Marines. CY points...
Posted on January 7, 2006 11:00 AM
Editor & Publisher is doing post mortems on the print media meltdown in the wake of the tragedy at the Sago mine in West Virginia. They call it "one of...
Posted on January 4, 2006 2:10 PM
I've been a listener to Paul Harvey, off and on, for about 30 years. He's a good touchstone for me -- a brief recap of news, commentary, and general oddness...
Posted on January 4, 2006 5:00 AM
Until Tuesday, the NSA site created two cookie files that do not expire until 2035 -- likely beyond the life of any computer in use today. NSA Web site places...
Posted on December 29, 2005 10:52 PM
I'm not an expert in the housing market but I bet I know more than the reporters who are writing of the bursting of the housing market "bubble" today. For...
Posted on December 29, 2005 4:19 PM
Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right. * Tuesday's cover story in The Los Angeles Times, by Times Staff Writer...
Posted on December 29, 2005 11:20 AM
Yesterday, I mentioned my brief appearance on a Boston talk show, being hosted temporarily by Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney. Brian has invited me back, this time not as a caller,...
Posted on December 24, 2005 2:00 PM
I've always felt that blogging and talk radio had a lot in common. The immediacy, the interaction between host and audience, the chance for expression for vox populi -- there...
Posted on December 23, 2005 6:30 AM
With Wednesday's announcement that Mitt Romney would not be running for governor of Massachusetts, the state's Democratic machine kicked into high gear. One candidate immediately stepped up his attacks on...
Posted on December 16, 2005 8:00 AM
Others are doing far better job of deconstructing the Pajamas Media experience (or lackthereof), but I did want offer a quick visual that points out one of the early worries...
Posted on December 14, 2005 12:42 AM
Dennis The Peasant, delivers what may be the definitive criticism of Pajamas Media.Pajamas Media, as it stands now, is simply a vanity project. Thats why it is so laughably dull....
Posted on December 12, 2005 12:14 PM
"I'm on my way, I'm making it..." A little while ago, I started "feeling my oats" as I noticed that I was getting a little bit of notice. But I...
Posted on December 2, 2005 8:00 AM
Geeze how's this for a lede... As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights, Samuel Alito... WOW- He opposes people's rights. Forgetting for a second the word abortion doesn't...
Posted on November 30, 2005 8:09 PM
For reasons that escape me, the mainstream media has completely ignored the fact New Orleans was not flooded by a hurricane but by an act of negligence by the Federal...
Posted on November 30, 2005 12:12 PM
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Britney Spears is on vacation in Costa Rica with Mel Gibson and his wife. Of course the paparazzi weren't far behind. These bikini photos do beg the question, "is...
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"They're trying to fool you. They're trying to scare you and they're not telling the truth," a fired-up Obama declared while campaigning in South Dakota. "But it's not going to work. Both Bush and McCain represent the failed foreign policy and fear mongering of the past," Obama said. "I believe the American people are ready to reject this approach and to choose the future."
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A few years ago, I had the privilege of speaking to a gentleman who worked for the Gallup Organization. We had a substantive discussion about the business and standards of...
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Sen. John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an Arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors, public records show.
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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter known as the fastest man on no legs, will be allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics after a ban on his prosthetic limbs...
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A spy in the audience of this Thursdays taping of the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" tells us that after Ellen mentioned the California Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's...
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Forget the engagement buzz. Not only are Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson not getting married, they're not even an item anymore. After reuniting less than two months ago, the...
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Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer. A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments"...
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Actress Anne Heche has blamed the cancellation of TV series Men In Trees for her inability to pay child support. The star was granted a reprieve in the monthly...
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More secret details of Angelina Jolie's pregnancy have been exposed by a Kung Fu Panda co-star - Dustin Hoffman has revealed the actress is due to give birth to...
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