Media Bias

Fairness Doctrine Attempt Voted Down

June 30, 2007

Sunday, July 1: I like it: ————————————————————————————————- Envy is ugly. All humans are capable of it, and some display it more than others. It’s always, always unattractive. When I feel a wave of it coming on, I channel the energy toward productive pursuits, drawing on my own strengths to create something instead of wallowing in [...]

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Airwave Envy II

June 21, 2007

Liberals are such crybabies. (By the grace of God, I’m no longer a liberal. No more tears!) They’re still whining about the domination of conservative talk radio. The Center for American Progress and Free Press, liberal “think” tanks, put out a joint 40-page report titled, Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio (PDF). They outline the [...]

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Duke Case: Journalists’ Rush to Judgment

May 22, 2007

I will be in the audience at “The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Rush To Judgment and Journalism’s Future” at the National Press Club this morning. Participants are Stuart Taylor, columnist and co-author (along with KC Johnson) of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case; Joseph Neff, reporter [...]

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Airwave Envy

May 17, 2007

Great article in The Politico yesterday about the Fairness Doctrine. The writer notes that liberals, unsuccessful on the radio talk show circuit, are trying to use the government to stifle opposing viewpoints, which the First Amendment was created to prevent. Envy is very unattractive. For my take on the so-called Fairness Doctrine, see Democrats Seek [...]

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Newspapers Agonize Over Allowing Comments

April 26, 2007

*** Scroll down for updates *** I never thought I’d see the day when newspapers would be agonizing over whether to allow readers to comment on stories. An excerpt: Faced with declining circulation, many U.S. newspapers are trying to engage readers by allowing them to respond to news stories online. But the anonymity of the [...]

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Democrats Seek to Resurrect Dead Fairness Doctrine

January 18, 2007

Now that Democrats are back in control of Congress, for however brief a time, they’re ready to use government intrusion to ride the coattails of conservative talk radio. Whenever things aren’t going well for liberals, they fall back on the only thing at their disposal: Big Government. When outgunned and outmanned, they create more government [...]

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TIME Person of the Year: Me!

December 18, 2006

Update II (12/20): Some truth, much exaggeration…and a bit of blog envy? More on media bashing. Update (12/19): Fellow Examiner Blog Board of Contributors blogger Dan Gillmor on “Citizen media is shifting power back to the people.” ———————————————————————————————————- AND YOU, TOO, bloggers, blog readers, Wikipedians, YouTube-ers, and everyone else who contributes to and consumes a [...]

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Three Diversity Birds, One Stone

December 11, 2006

Deborah Howell, Washington Post Ombudsman ombudsman@washpost.com Dear Ms. Howell, In yesterday’s Washington Post, you bemoaned the excess of white male opinion writers and columnists and the paucity of blacks and females. You wrote that the Washington area is “a remarkably diverse region, and that should be better reflected in columnist jobs” and proceeded to list [...]

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NYT Public Editor Byron Calame Should Resign

October 23, 2006

I was determined to take the whole weekend off from this bloody blog, so I let a Sunday blog swarm pass me by. Time to play catch up. Background Back in July, the New York Times decided to run a story on a “secret” government terrorist-fighting program. Through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication [...]

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Duke Rape Case, Media, and the Law

October 10, 2006

Update II (10/11): I haven’t watched “60 Minutes” in years, but I’ll catch it this Sunday. The indicted Duke lacrosse players and stripper-embezzler Kim Roberts, who was sentenced to house arrest last month, will be interviewed. ——————————————————————— Last month I told you about a discussion panel at Syracuse University on constitutional issues in the Duke [...]

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New Media Power

October 9, 2006

It’s beyond dispute that the blogosphere played a role in the 2004 elections. How big a role can be disputed, but that doesn’t matter. The new medium has made its mark, and politics will never be the same. The Foleygate fiasco is the most recent example of the blogosphere’s ability to keep stories front and [...]

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Media and Dog-Bites-Man Crimes

July 10, 2006

***Scroll down for updates!*** Close your eyes and imagine reading a news story about two white men breaking into a black man’s house in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., slashing his throat and killing him, and attempting to rape his girlfriend, also black. Picture a white woman waiting in the getaway car. Now envision [...]

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Loose Lips, Sinking Ships, and the Fourth Estate

July 3, 2006

Update (7/7): Patterico chronicles his ongoing tussle with LA Times editor Dean Baquet. Update (7/4): Michelle responds to critics: “This blog says spokespeople for Rumsfeld and Cheney are denying any security threat from the publication of the article…But none of this answers the question I posed to the Times’ editors repeatedly in my original post…” [...]

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Washington Post Journalist Admits Biased Immigration Coverage

June 1, 2006

Journalist Robert J. Samuelson of the Washington Post admits that his newspaper, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal (which has a conservative editorial page but advocates open borders) missed an important part of the immigration story because of “selective journalism.” In What You Don’t Know About the Immigration Bill, he intones about [...]

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State of the News Media 2006

March 17, 2006

It’s Friday! And I’m too busy to blog. On this blog, that is. Well, I guess I’m not that busy because I’m blogging. Hmmm… So I’m going to let you blog. Here’s a topic: State of the News Media 2006. Since 2004, the journalists at the Project for Excellence in Journalism have released an annual [...]

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