tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76312262012-01-31T07:54:07.693-08:00Because it helps to remember the stuff that the media buries.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; <b>THEY</b> are in the business of air brushing history. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; Bloggers are in the business of exposing the deceit.Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-70705053973379082492008-11-07T22:34:00.000-08:002008-11-07T23:06:53.960-08:00

"In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism. All that was before is now over, as this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again." - Victor Davis Hanson In the 3rd book of his history, Thucydides has some insightful thoughts about destroying institutions in times of

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If you want to read the obituary for the mainstream media, it's here.Columnist Michael Malone "Looks at Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why"--------------------------Malone doesn't attempt to understand why. It's suicidal, yes. But, it's more than that. It's just plain visceral hatred because they blame everyone else for their demise.The unfaithful readers. The Internet unleased by

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The latest FAS-FAX figures from the Audit Circulation Bureau show another decline for U.S. newspapers. The reporting is for the six months ending September 2008. Overall losses were - 4.6% on daily circulation. Last year, the overall circulation decline ending September 2007 was -2.6%The list of losses, as presented by Editor & Publisherwas by circulation.USA TODAY -- 2,293,310 -- 0.01%THE WALL

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This unusually candid story from the San Diego Union-Tribune about the economic decline of newspapers gives a more realistic view of the state of the industry than any take by Editor & Publisher. Things haven't gone smoothly in Minneapolis, either. In May, the Star Tribune reported that Avista had written down $75 million of the $100 million it invested in the purchase, reflecting the estimated

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-14606879113427516122008-09-02T06:38:00.000-07:002008-09-02T06:58:23.428-07:00

May 2008 - A prominent liberal talk show host in San Francisco for two decades who denounced President Bush and the war in Iraq and was known for hosting "God Talk," a Sunday morning program on the problems with slandering religion will be going to a jail nearby sometime soon.Bernie Ward pleaded guilty to a charge of distributing child porn. The plea agreement he signed, quoted in court,

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-62299707096505701792008-08-18T22:14:00.000-07:002008-08-18T22:58:59.911-07:00

In an August 14th article in the Wall Street Journal, on the Tribune Co. shows they're still deeply troubled. They took a $3.8 BILLION accounting charge in the second quarter. Gannett Co., New York Times Co. and other publishers have taken similar charges, an acknowledgment that newspaper assets are worth less than the value shown on the companies' books.In Tribune's case, the charge shows the

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-3208661279361436702008-06-30T09:33:00.000-07:002008-07-03T14:27:53.754-07:00

Rumors abounded in the 1990s that the Los Angeles Times was doing so poorly that they were considering selling the Los Angeles Times building. Apparently, it might come to pass. The announcement this week that Tribune Co., which owns The Times, is considering selling the paper's downtown offices is the latest sign of a decades-long corporate disappearance from the city center.Arco, Standard Oil,

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-77540365902630944102008-06-18T16:53:00.000-07:002008-06-18T20:55:17.338-07:00

Musicals might be making a comeback. Earlier this year, the Indian company, Tata Motors Ltd., agreed to buy Britain's Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford Motor Co. for $2.3 billion. Now, Dreamworks' producer Steven Spielberg and the rest might be up for sale, much like the studio was a few years ago.According to the Wall Street Journal, Mumbai-based Reliance ADA Group would provide Mr.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-2570272320859802332008-04-09T22:51:00.000-07:002008-04-09T23:29:20.160-07:00

How come news like this never makes national headlines?When he was expelled from the House in March 2008, it was the first time in 128 years that the NC General Assembly had expelled one of their own. North Carolina state Rep. Thomas Wright has another first to his name. He is the first member of the North Carolina House to face jail time since 1880.The North Carolina General Assembly voted

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Reuters headlines the story: "More Americans turning to Web for news" to report that. Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-90651304055238675642008-02-29T10:10:00.000-08:002008-02-29T10:19:28.032-08:00

McClatchy is reporting a Q4 $1.4 Billion Loss. What a surprise. It's an "impairment charge" on the value of their newspapers. Specifically, in the value of those papers acquired from Knight Ridder. McClatchy has written off half the value of the $4.4 billion blockbuster purchase of Knight Ridder in the summer of 2006. McClatchy stock has lost more than half its value since the Knight

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-83736695636923056742008-02-29T09:30:00.000-08:002008-02-29T10:09:44.427-08:00

Newsday will be cutting about 120 jobs that includes 25 in the newsroom - on top of 13 vacant positions that have not been filled - pressroom reduction of 24 union positions and 5 drivers in the transportation bargaining unit.Dennis Grabhorn, president Local 406 of the Graphic Communications Conference/International Brotherhood of Teamsters, didn't agree with the cuts or the newspaper's lack of

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-24409820140116641382008-02-28T10:11:00.000-08:002008-02-28T13:01:35.048-08:00

You might have missed this. In fact, you might have missed the death of 800,000 people, the rape of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, the 99 days of killing. A Belgian journalist jailed for inciting Rwanda's 1994 genocide was handed over on Thursday to police from Italy, where he will serve the rest of his sentence.Georges Ruggiu, 50, is the only non-Rwandan convicted by an international

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A recent mayor of Oakland is now the Attorney General for the state of Calfiornia."Homicide Rate Overwhelming Oakland Police"There have been 21 homocides in Oakland since the start of the year. The police announced a gun buy-back program and the line stretched for several blocks. Police ran out of money and had to hand out IOUs. Now the cash-strapped department is reportedly on the hook for

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-12055247871585157662008-01-10T17:58:00.000-08:002008-01-10T18:24:53.212-08:00

The Financial Times remarked on the crackdown of insider trading that resulted in the sentencing of Goldman Sachs & Co. associate Eugene Plotkin, another Goldman Sachs employe, a Merrill Lynch analyst, a federal grand juror, and two employees of a printing firm in Wisconsin who who furnished pre-publication copies of Business Week’s “Inside Wall Street.FT says that while certain colourful

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Taxing 40% of the U.S. and you didn't even know it.Long Beach OKs fee on cargo to fund green effortsThe Port of Los Angeles is expected to enact a similar measure. Drivers protest, saying they can't afford to operate newer, cleaner trucks.By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 18, 2007 After years of unsuccessful attempts, the Long Beach Harbor Commission on Monday approved a

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Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony was attacked on the street in July. He spoke about it at a recent conference of priests.Mahony told the priests that the man began shouting expletives and knocked him to the ground. It took a month for his injuries to heal after the attack.He said it gave him a deeper understanding of the suffering endured by victims of the nationwide scandal.For those who do not

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What an understatement.Study: More Than 60% Don't Trust Campaign CoverageIt's from a Harvard study. Key among the findings according to E&P:• 64% of those polled do not trust press coverage of the presidential campaign.• 88% believe that campaign coverage focuses on trivial issues.• 84% believe that media coverage has too much influence on American voting choices.• 92% say it is important that

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Are these stories related, or what???!!!From Editor & Publisher, the Dutch-owned, self-described, "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry" is news of some changes at the LA Times. 'LA Times' Creates Reader Representative's Blog Editor James O'Shea said, "The ongoing changes reflect The Times overarching goal of becoming a more transparent and integrated news organization. Most

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-23763719438382340922007-11-26T21:01:00.000-08:002007-11-26T21:07:03.229-08:00

The FBI responded to an article in the Congressional Quarterly alleging that the FBI had a program to monitor the sales of Middle Eastern food products in the San Francisco Bay area in support of counterterrorism intelligence gathering.They don't. As John MillerAssistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, wrote, Having never heard of this, I spoke to the counterterrorism managers, who in the

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Nov 13, 2007 - This story will be underreported. An illegal immigrant from Lebanon with ties to the militant Islamic group Hezbollah lied her way through background checks to become an agent for both the FBI and CIA, and then used her position to obtain information about her relatives and a U.S. investigation into the group, authorities said Tuesday.Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, pleaded guilty to

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-83794664454827442572007-11-02T09:53:00.000-07:002007-11-02T11:21:04.210-07:00

Interesting article at E&P on the speech by Tom Curley, CEO of the Associated Press. As usual, E&P doesn't provide a link to his speech. They excerpt from it. These are some points he made and how they saw his message.- Young people the world over are hungry for news. They just don’t prefer our traditional platforms and packaging.- The first thing that has to go is the attitude. Our institutional

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-18793749417522386172007-11-01T17:03:00.001-07:002007-11-01T17:18:14.022-07:00

I have not labled the more than 2,153 stories in this blog and don't intend to do so. It's too time consuming.

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Steep circulation declines continue in the newspaper industry.At Editor & Publisher (the Dutch-owned publication that follows the newspaper industry) - where editor Greg Mitchell perpetually proves that your brain stops growing from the acid in the 60's and where Vietnam flashbacks can occur daily and in response to every topic, at least for anti-war activists - are releasing the bad news a day

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It's one of those rare and wonderful moments in life. Arlington, VA - A former Arlington little league coach will be sentenced Friday for possessing child pornography that two judges described as the most-disturbing evidence they have ever seen.Fifty-one-year old Charles Rust-Tierney pleaded guilty in May.Court documents indicate Rust-Tierney, a former president of the Virginia Chapter of the

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-69240312852250955622007-08-24T07:48:00.000-07:002007-08-24T08:09:22.623-07:00

Anything to make money in Russia.The artist was given access to the morgue to take photographs of eight bodies with various objects including sheet music, a key and an apple. The coronor was accused of abuse of a corpse for letting the artist take the pictures, and he was convicted. However, another court ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict him.This isn't the first time the morgue

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Gov. George Ryan pardoned Aaron Patterson in 2003, saying there was no credible evidence against him. Ryan also pardoned three other men and commuted the sentences of all other death row inmates to life without parole. Today Ryan, sentenced to six and a half years, is likely to go to jail after his appeal is completed , and Paterson is back for 30 years. A former death row inmate who became a

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There are times when you shake your head at the absurdity of the Associated Press. In a story on the number of black murder victims, the writer, LARA JAKES JORDAN, reports the facts and then, well, goes out on a righteous cause limb.FACT: Nearly half of the nation's murder victims in 2005 were black, and the number of black men who were slain is on the rise.(The number of white victims also rose.

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An editorial in the Detroit News, "Put up or shut up on global warming" nails the issue. Fighting global warming isn't so much fun now, is it? When the battle targeted almost exclusively Detroit's auto industry, volunteers were falling all over themselves to sign up.But now it's about to hit closer to home for most Americans. U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the Dearborn Democrat who chairs the Energy

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Altering images isn't new as this site proves. Absolute best denial that we did it on purpose and we did it on purpose in the same obfuscating paragraph, was from New York Times Magazine. "The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-80364686101147939552007-07-18T19:58:00.000-07:002007-07-18T20:17:58.036-07:00

WoW Dancing - My all time favorite. So far, 4,630,831 views.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqkAnd I thought Too Sexy was funny.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oKaCL-OA8Jimmy: The World of Warcraft Story"Hey, Bitch. I don't wanna bind!"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUhSjuhQYE

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The former president of the Dallas Press Club is being sued, accused of rigging several prestigious journalism competitions. Elizabeth Albanese denies the accusations She was president of the Press Club August 2005 until March 2007.The lawsuit was filed by the press club and the Press Club of Dallas Foundation. At the center of the case is the question of whether Albanese rigged the Katie Awards,

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July 6 - The Christian Science Monitor on "Al Gore's inconvenient tax" - wants to replace the current payroll tax with a consumer tax on fossil-fuel use.This "carbon tax" would, of course, raise the price of gasoline and home heating/cooling. And it would put the burden of generating the same level of federal revenues on consumers while reducing the tax burden on labor and capital (workers and

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Par Ridder (former publisher of the Pioneer Press) claims he didn't intend to harm the St. Paul Pioneer Press when he took confidential computer files from his job there to his new post as publisher and CEO of the rival Star Tribune of Minneapolis.The spreadsheets contained sensitive data on advertising, finances and personnel. He was only, he claimed, going to reproduce the forms. Of course, he

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Nothing illustrates the deficiencies of socialized state health care more than Adolfo (Tony) Flora. He was infected with hepatits from tainted blood in 1973. He was diagnosed with with liver cancer in 1999. He was told there were no viable treatment options and was given six months to live.But he didn't die. Flora refused to accept the death sentence and travelled to England for a

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In a first, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney, was ordered by a judge to testify in a "in a lawsuit alleging that he failed to protect parishioners from a pedophile teacher." In a city where radio ads are heard daily criticizing the Catholic Church, and Mahoney in particular, in "How DARE you!"ads condemning the church for opposition to Right to Die, it wasn't unexpected. It's very easy to

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-63372156246516907092007-06-03T08:45:00.000-07:002007-06-03T09:07:48.323-07:00

Unemployment figures in the EU, as reported by Expatica.comThe EU average fell by 0.1 percent in April to a new low of 7.1 percent. That represents about 17 million people in the EU.Poland continues to have the highest unemployment rate (11.2 percent), although the number of unemployed Poles has nearly been halved since the country's accession to the EU. (Which may in fact be the result of EU

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-15489225697683789912007-06-03T08:16:00.000-07:002007-06-03T08:34:56.659-07:00

The Guardian (U.K) thinks emission credits and carbon trading are bogus.The CDM is one of two global markets which have been set up in the wake of the Kyoto climate summit in 1997. Both finally started work in January 2005. Although both were launched with the claim that they would reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, evidence collected by the Guardian suggests that thus far, both markets

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-86448277081261253672007-06-03T08:01:00.000-07:002007-06-03T08:15:29.743-07:00

Margaret Carlson on Bill Richardson's appearance on Meet the Press was a barbacue. On the Supreme Court, one debate ago, Richardson said his favorite Justice was Byron White. That was before it was pointed out to him that White wrote the dissenting opinion in Roe v. Wade. Since then, his new faves are Justices Earl Warren and Ruth Ginsburg.Richardson stubbornly refused to end a fight with the

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If you want to know the real New Orleans, don't visit during Mardi Gras. Just read The Times Picayne daily and weep at the murder rate and the unsolved murder statistics. They're appalling.FINDING: Prosecutors have successfully prosecuted just one of the 162 homicides committed last year, convicting a man of killing his lover. A second trial, also a more easily prosecuted domestic killing, ended

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-70372294760599766292007-06-02T17:52:00.000-07:002007-06-02T18:08:01.745-07:00

If you want to see an example of newspaper coverage that would be worth paying money to read online, the Appleton Post-Crescent (Wisconsin) has it in their coverage of the trial of Steven Avery.Take the story of a man released after being exonerated by DNA for a previous crime who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Steven Avery was convicted of killing a freelance photographer in

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-20633559699793049062007-05-27T14:51:00.000-07:002007-05-27T15:07:33.729-07:00

When Air-France-KLM orders more planes from Boeing than they do EAD-produced Airbus planes, you know that Airbus is in trouble.Despite what the Wichita Eagle says, Air-France-KLM isn't buying 30 Airbus A320 planes. They're buying 12 and leasing 18. In all, European socialism isn't doing well, as I have reported before.HereHereHereHereHere

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The money quote is the last paragraph. Five formerly communist states of eastern Germany where deserted factories and blocks of flats already blot the landscape are set to lose another third of their population by 2050, German statisticians said Tuesday.The figures are based on current birth and death statistics in a region where the economy imploded after the end of communism in 1989. Major

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It's official. The Airbus venture is a mess. That doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the saga. Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois says national pride has been the downfall of the European aircraft manufacturer in which France and Germany are the biggest partners in an interview in the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune.Airbus airliners are assembled in France

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The the head of the state's Republican party likened to "Doctor Kevorkian teaching health maintenance." when he heard that ex-N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey has started teaching courses at a New Jersey university on ethics and leadership. McGreevey has become an Episcopalian and enrolled in a "discernment" program to help prospective candidates for the priesthood decide if it is their true

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-28680157767328598552007-04-25T20:45:00.000-07:002007-04-25T20:58:34.478-07:00

As Part II of cleaning up their act, Rosie O'Donnell is now overboard. Not immediately, but certainly before the elections. The payoff? A show of her own in 2009. Or other options. as the Associated Press noted.Options discussed include another syndicated, celeb-focused show; a game show; a late-night network program; or a cable show, where her colorful language could be less inhibited.

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I've been waiting for Don Imus to be fired to comment on the manufactured outrage of the MSM. Manufactured because they've adored him for years. More so than the public. In 2005, David Kiley of Business Week wrote about Imus' rating. Book sellers, Senators, Congressmen, media personalities and even clergy are always after the same audience as Imus’s advertisers: affluent, educated and influential

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-3474647039986461242007-04-09T14:13:00.000-07:002007-04-09T15:33:08.703-07:00

Thought: We don't have a federal government anymore; we have a Republican government or a Democrat one.Increasingly, however, the Democrats who spend more time out of the White House than in, think it doesn't matter what the electorate says. Who voted for Nancy Pelosi to conduct our foreign policy?It sounds like a dumb move, and having watched Pelosi for years and coming from a state that elected

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-63537994980241552372007-03-31T13:24:00.000-07:002007-04-09T15:34:23.717-07:00

"It's intended as a meditation on the Holy Week," is how the artistic director at the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan described the artwork they intended to display in a street-level window. Days ahead of Good Friday. It is a 6-foot tall, naked Jesus sculpted in chocolate.How devout do you have to be to loving sculpt the genitals of Jesus in chocolate? How stupid do you have to be to

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-56184096479864487642007-03-28T22:16:00.000-07:002007-03-29T00:12:54.019-07:00

It is semi-annual because that's all I can tolerate.Headline: "Mitterrand's son may face trial in arms to Angola affair" is more hope than possibility. The son was detained for three weeks in December 2000 and January 2001 as an accessory to arms trafficking, but the charge has been dropped. Judiciary wants to try Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, who was an adviser on African affairs at the Elysee

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Michael Massing, a contributing edtor to the Columbia Journalism Review, ponders "Missing Middle." (For the uninformed, that's the middle of the country most often referred to as "fly over" America.)What he finds missing are the stories that originate from middle America. He wonders if major media was located in the Midwest, would there be more stories about religion? Or the unemployment in the

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-67618970403750848762007-03-25T10:36:00.000-07:002007-03-25T10:44:47.819-07:00

From the Bill Roggio's "We no longer question their patriotism" file.Portland, Oregon protesters.Poster at the website: 'I grew up in Portland and just recently moved to the Seattle area. Portland is a great town...the anarchists are probably from Eugene (University of Oregon), the same group of losers as those that rioted at the WTO meeting in Seattle in the 90s. "-------------- I kept expecting

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-83451895853416599772007-03-16T21:47:00.000-07:002007-03-16T22:11:34.993-07:00

I don't read the Washington Post anymore. It's surreal and gives me a fuzzy head that comes from a conviction that reality is distant and elusive. For some. Mostly, the people at the Washington Post. First, there's the story of one the top contributors to Hillary Clinton , the firm of International Profits Associates, (ranked 12th) that is facing new allegations of racketeering from

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-51872995843908575012007-03-16T21:12:00.000-07:002007-03-16T21:20:31.548-07:00

Is this a romance made in hell or what? The governor of New Jersey broke up with his girlfriend and forgave a half-million-dollar mortgage loan he had given her. He also may have paid her kids' tuition and helped her with other expenses. He's Gov. Jon S. Corzine and Carla is Carla Katz, president of New Jersey's biggest state employee union -- Communications Workers of America local.The

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-89064485659313188702007-03-07T14:39:00.000-08:002007-03-07T15:04:19.475-08:00

You can put this down as another definition of chutzpah, once defined by a physicist I knew as "killing your mother and father and throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you're an orphan."That ceased to be funny when the Menendez brothers nearly got away with murder. And there's nothing funny about Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.A medical school that trains minority

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-31028624314358408352007-02-26T15:19:00.000-08:002007-03-07T15:03:35.795-08:00

There's hope for our culture. In a survey of readers, the Star-Telegram reported that nore than 10,000 surveys arrived in response to the invitation to help decide if the comics lineup needs improvement. Online readers returned 6,307 surveys and an estimated 4,000 others were mailed.The results for the "Bottom 10, combining "Drop It" and "Don't Care" and comparing with their totals from "A

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-7403897712133862752007-02-26T13:53:00.000-08:002007-05-22T11:46:06.628-07:00

Virginia apologized for slavery. It was a political performance worthy of what we expect from the French Party, formerly known as the Democrat Party.Just as the Academy Awards focus more on the international nature of films, echoing the Cannes film festival as a Green Message Machine and endorsement of innane acting and self-congratulatory ego fest for films no one cares about, the French Party

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-88038856402444416282007-02-20T10:27:00.000-08:002007-02-20T10:36:21.180-08:00

Feb 20, 2007 - When a French judge was interviewed by Radio Netherlands he was candid. Eric Halphen, vice president at the Paris municipal court, says that most French politicians are corrupt and there is not much anyone can do about it. We meet judge Eric Halphen in a Paris café. He says corruption is everywhere in French politics. High and low, on the left and on the right. But convictions

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-55529586365638139542007-02-12T21:40:00.000-08:002007-02-12T09:28:43.044-08:00

Ole Joe Biden will be a keynote speaker for trial lawyers meeting somewhere. Not that he's ever, ever going to be president, but he is on the Judiciary Committee. No, they still love Edwards.Edwards was a principal beneficiary of the group’s giving in the 2004 campaign. Lawyers’ contributions accounted for almost two-thirds of the money he raised during the first quarter of 2003, when he

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-70227457681105700242007-02-12T08:55:00.000-08:002007-02-12T09:28:03.719-08:00

The Dixie Chicks won 5 Grammies, an example of a politicized entertainment industry rewarding the group's political loudness. The infotainment business is also rewarding another political hack - Former Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran has a radio talk show, as SouthofBoston.com notes, just five weeks after pleaded guilty to federal charges. (The crime was perjury.)They go on to note

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-46661908563597442462007-02-06T14:11:00.000-08:002007-02-06T14:22:23.733-08:00

Three more snotty reporters have been fired by the Santa Barbara News-Press. They thought they were immune after an overpass demonstration.Predictably, a Teamster spokesman calls it "a blatant bare knuckled attack" and confirming that an unfair labor practice charge is being filed today with the National Labor Relations Board. yada yada yada The comments at the story are insightful. Of

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-6398692530586360682007-02-03T12:53:00.000-08:002007-02-03T13:18:38.039-08:00

The Schulzberger family is pulling $100 million out of Morgan Stanley after a London- based managing director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management who has been trying to incite a shareholder revolt against Sulzberger. As a result, the New York Times family finances are now public."Morgan Stanley had been the longtime custodian of the family's assets, including its stake in the Times company -

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-9515092878385947662007-01-26T10:04:00.000-08:002007-01-26T10:10:15.736-08:00

The media industry slashed 17,809 jobs last year, a nearly two-fold increase from the 9,453 cuts in 2005. The New York Times Co. and Time Inc., have already laid off 2,000 employees in 2007. The hate-America first crowd at our media certainly deserve unemployment.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-81720873908648736742007-01-25T09:38:00.000-08:002007-01-25T09:46:54.428-08:00

This news item from the Palm Beach Post is curious.BRIEFLYThe U.S. Treasury Department rejected the World Trade Center Palm Beach's plan for a humanitarian, educational and information-exchange trip to Cuba in June, The Miami Herald reported. The WTC Palm Beach, a not-for-profit trade group affiliated with 278 similar organizations around the world, unveiled plans to take about 30 South Florida

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-34585619116121898572007-01-22T15:04:00.000-08:002007-01-22T15:21:52.282-08:00

McClatchy newspapers looked at 'Rational standard' missing in capital punishment cases. And this is the best they can do. Was he guilty? Beyond doubt. But his path to the death chamber was cleared by 11 judges who watered down a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that require lawyers to defend their clients' lives vigorously.Vinson's attorneys had never looked into the iron-pipe beatings their

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-82869597324300339452007-01-18T21:11:00.000-08:002007-01-18T21:25:45.111-08:00

Remember when Maryland passed a law in 2006 forcing Wal-Mart -- but only Wal-Mart -- to spend more on employee health care? The healthcare socialists cheered and the badly-managed state figured that they could shift some of their medicaid burden to a corporation loathed by Democrats. (Because Wal-Mart isn't unionized.)Not gonna happen. A second court found that the Maryland’s "fair-share health

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-45721025763041847662007-01-18T20:55:00.000-08:002007-01-18T21:04:31.475-08:00

VNU is changing its name to Nielsen Company "to capitalize on its largest brand." Better known as our television rating service among others.According to the New York Times, VNU, based in the Netherlands, was founded more than 40 years ago through the merger of two Dutch publishing companies. It was taken private last year after six private equity firms acquired it in a leveraged buyout for $9.85

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-22286974413744415472007-01-17T09:13:00.000-08:002007-01-17T09:38:47.508-08:00

Only in south New Jersey. The headline is "Political boss enters prison" and it starts out like this. Five minutes before noon Tuesday, former Democrat Party power broker John A. Lynch Jr. said goodbye to a friend who drove him to the Federal Correction Institute in Loretto, Pa., and became federal inmate 28068-050."You're a nobody. You're just a number. You just went from the limelight to the

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-10552871641756190462007-01-15T23:18:00.000-08:002007-01-15T23:24:39.950-08:00

A biggie you might have missed. Chris Dodd announced he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, saying problems at home and abroad meant it was time for him to "get out of the bleachers and onto the arena floor."Announced on Imus in the Morning show. I don't know if Imus asked Dodd about his real prospects of actually being elected. If that's the purpose. His role as chairman

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-47580116691351904842007-01-15T22:03:00.000-08:002007-01-15T22:17:27.238-08:00

Headline on an AP story from Editor & Publisher: "Whoops, They Did It Again: 'NYT' Reporter Describes Video of Another Grisly Execution in Iraq"Whoops??? Like, in we're dancing in the aisles over the grisly execution video leaks? Yes, that's Editor & Publisher, the self-described America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry. Greg Mitchell actually finding something morally

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-37062018739438797022007-01-15T16:39:00.000-08:002007-01-15T16:46:09.037-08:00

If you doubt socialism is an economic disaster, you only have to follow the Airbus saga. Today, finally, EADS is ending production of its A320 at a French factory and moving the operations to Hamburg. After how many years?The only reason part of the A320 was in Toulouse in the first place is because it is the headquarters of the company and as a sop to the French unions.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-70197656543030584802007-01-11T14:19:00.000-08:002007-01-11T14:26:11.927-08:00

Tommy Lee Jones would never do that. I'm kinda disappointed that he was hired in the first place. The Marcellos gave a hint about who their source was when they described "the baby-sitter" of Calabrese as the son of a corrupt Chicago policeman convicted of bribery in a celebrated case. That description only fit Ambrose. Damn.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-52744936423635717222007-01-10T23:13:00.000-08:002007-01-11T00:04:18.664-08:00

Philadelphia Weekly is playing the race card in reporting the layoffs at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Deepening the wound at a paper already struggling for readers, advertising dollars and some kind of identity, the layoffs represent a major step backward for diversity.Of those laid off, 16 employees—or 22.5 percent—are black.“It’s a very unfortunate situation,” says Inquirer reporter Vernon Clark,

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-64411180666864282252007-01-09T17:07:00.000-08:002007-01-09T17:17:33.005-08:00

I wasn't going to write another word about the Duke Rape case, but an article in the Huffington Post grabbed me.Not for clear-headed thinking but for the laughs. It's got all the elements of a blog piece with none of the originality. When you spell 'academic' wrong, it's a clue. The funniest part is the blatant attempt to posthumously award Ed Bradley with credit -- three months later --

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-73868057647447499212007-01-09T01:00:00.000-08:002007-01-15T23:52:12.322-08:00

The Times of London reports that Russians have turned off Europe's oil supply in a bitter dispute with Belarus. The scale of the problem can be seen in the volume of oil that will be affected."More than 1.2 million barrels of oil a day flow from Russia through the Druzhba, or Friendship, pipeline, providing almost a quarter of Germany’s needs and 96 per cent of Poland’s imports, as well as

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-80355987763973609952007-01-07T16:42:00.000-08:002007-01-07T17:15:48.717-08:00

Former House speaker Thomas M. Finneran reinforces the public image of politicians as crooks who exempt themselves from the laws they write.He was sentenced to an astonishingly inadequate 18 months unsupervised probation for lying under oath in a civil case. The plea agreement dropped three perjury charges in exchange for a guilty plea to obstruction of justice.US District Judge Richard G.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-49883073860032047682007-01-04T14:40:00.000-08:002007-01-06T20:34:33.558-08:00

Look who's asking the question now. None other than, the Columbia Journalism Review. Paul McCleary, writing in CJR, is asking the Associated Press to "Produce the Phantom Iraqi Source." It's significant that "phantom" isn't even in quotes in the headline.McCleary credits Editor & Publisher's Strupp for challenging the AP. However, what set E&P thinking (at long last) was Easton Jordan's

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-91953119429403465472007-01-02T21:23:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:37:46.896-08:00

I missed Gerald Ford's funeral. But, then, I missed his entire presidency. Leaving the snarky obituary to Christopher Hitchens, my complaint about Gerald Ford is that even in the timing of his death he did absolutely nothing for the Republican party. He's a man who was nearly assassinated three times and, amazingly, evoked no sympathy whatsoever. He was a staple entertainment on Saturday Night

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-5912549160812951482006-12-31T20:26:00.000-08:002007-01-03T11:26:03.965-08:00

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch said what a lot of us are thinking. About Google. Instapundit has similar thoughts, too.Above is a good example why Google is losing their reputation. (Click on image to enlarge and see the sponsored links to the right.)Now try the same search at Yahoo and you won't find pornograpy or sex aid sites. That is because Yahoo insists that such sites meet editor

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-10547051467014911362006-12-29T14:23:00.000-08:002006-12-29T16:02:25.825-08:00

A new Ipso-AP poll has been released just in time for those year-end stories.It's the Celebrity Ranking Poll Link It is worth reading if only because it is reported so widely that president Bush topped the list for biggest villain of the year with 25%. He's was the first name on the list of 32 read to those interviewed.The runner ups are worth looking at.The second biggest villain was Don't Know/

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-58790322234238057382006-12-28T17:24:00.000-08:002006-12-29T14:13:13.267-08:00

When I wrote about the sale of the Minneapolis Star-News, I thought it looked odd that Dutch-owned Editor & Publisher mentioned union contracts more than once. A new story today infers that McClatchy sold it off because it was union in "With 'Strib' Gone, McClatchy Sheds Another Union Paper -- Coincidence?"Seems the Star-News was the next to the last newspapers McClatchy-purchased Knight-Ridder

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-9978964276040439562006-12-28T17:04:00.000-08:002006-12-28T17:16:27.666-08:00

The Globe & Mail, Canada's lunatic leftwing newspaper - (think U.K.'s Guardian as opposed to the Independent) - has daily polls to test their readers susceptibility to their various campaigns. They must be gnashing their teeth after a prominent story, "Giant ice shelf snaps free from Canada's Arctic," and their poll question hasn't the desired effect.Question: If the unusual weather patterns

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-31180588103225646592006-12-27T10:04:00.000-08:002006-12-27T12:54:38.038-08:00

The guys at Power Line have long maintained that the Minneapolis Star Tribune, their home newspaper is one of the worst in the country. It's a view shared by many of us who have visited the newspaper.Today that view was shared by the marketplace and Goldman Sachs."While McClatchy will "generate a tax benefit of about $160 million," Goldman observes, it is also taking a hit on the sale price,

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-24989701795302486312006-12-26T13:26:00.000-08:002006-12-26T13:38:03.388-08:00

You mean Clinton and the United Nations are not perfect?????!!!! Who would have guessed?Well, maybe 800,000 Rwandans. And maybe those refugees in Darfur still waiting for the U.N. to do something -- anything -- to help them.One of the real problems, however, is that Amnesty International is so politicized** that they don't have any crediblity either, even when they urge Canada to do something

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-27976338830117513502006-12-26T12:03:00.000-08:002006-12-26T12:38:01.257-08:00

Finally! A reality check for the New York Times reporters who portray U.S. intelligence agencies everyone in the U.S. government as jack booted thugs.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-27442643862420598282006-12-24T12:07:00.000-08:002007-11-01T17:31:43.925-07:00

While the media derides bloggers, they're very, very busy creating and filtering blogs they can quote. And to help them, Reuters has just invested heavily in Pluck Corporation with their "BlogBurst capabilities".What's that, you ask?Well, first there is the "Editorial team: Our in-house editors manage the recruitment, filtering and maintenance of high-quality focused blogs." who will "Discover

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-90636272154528091392006-12-23T10:06:00.000-08:002006-12-23T10:33:32.490-08:00

Daily Mail (UK) headline: "Blackmail fear after Russia doubles the price of its gas"FACT: Moscow forced Georgia to accept a doubling of gas prices and has warned Turkey not to help Georgia.REALITY: No one really gives a darn about Georgia, especially in the EU (pronounced EWWWWW)FEAR: The EU (pronounced EWWWWW) currently gets 25% of their gas supplies from Russia and Russia is taking over gas

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-68466834217030653972006-12-22T10:38:00.000-08:002006-12-23T10:27:28.612-08:00

Celebrities then and now from WNBC. [Warning: Do not drink liquids while viewing.]

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A UK soldier has been arrested on has appeared in court accused of passing secrets to Iran. Daniel James was an interpreter for NATO commander in Afghanistan General David Richards. As an interpreter for the British general who commands some 30,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, James would be privy to highly sensitive military and political information.The charges are likely to embarrass

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-36113535202124871302006-12-22T09:50:00.000-08:002006-12-22T10:06:42.932-08:00

Trust Canada's Globe & Mail to run this headline: Kremlin scores another victory with Sakhalin energy deal as if the thuggish tactics Putin used to wrest control of Sakhalin from investors was a triumph of sorts. Maybe it was if you consider the takeover of AO Yukos Oil Co by the Kremlin a similar success story. This is another blow to the delusion of the EU that they would be partners

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-56509972656575495662006-12-22T09:33:00.000-08:002006-12-22T09:38:43.001-08:00

Thanks to PajamasMedia, you can download the Inspector General’s report on Sandy Berger's destruction of classified documents. HerePajamasMedia is inviting everyone to review the document with them. It's a case of many minds working to discover the facts the MSM folks are ignoring. We are confident that by releasing this document in this manner we can call upon the networked intelligence

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-36750301398151092482006-12-11T11:52:00.000-08:002006-12-11T12:32:11.811-08:00

Radio Netherlands is reporting Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip have shot dead three children of a senior al-Fatah official. The three boys, aged six, seven and eight, were being dropped off at school in a car when the shooting occurred. Two other children in the schoolyard were injured. The killings are thought to be part of the escalating conflict between the ruling Hamas movement and

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-65845676475905459322006-12-11T11:36:00.000-08:002006-12-11T12:14:48.976-08:00

Drudge has been running "Diana bugged by U.S. " story now for three days. It's tedious. And incomplete. The report also said that Henri, the driver, worked for French Intelligence Services. Which means, what????It means Drudge is missing the really BIG stories in Europe.As much as we complain about bureacratic stupidity, you only have to read about the EU (pronounced EWWWWWW) to feel slightly

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-65894045126818840382006-12-11T10:07:00.000-08:002006-12-11T12:36:49.595-08:00

FLATTERED. The U.S. should be flattered that Kofi Annan criticized the U.S. in his farewell speech. Annan is the tip of the corruption scandal that was the Food for Oil program. While he was in charge of peacekeeping forces, he was responsible for the delays in Rwanda that caused 800,000 deaths. And his reform of the Human Rights Commission that resulted in an even worse Human Rights Council is

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-61324007955574341372006-12-11T07:40:00.000-08:002006-12-11T10:20:21.965-08:00

The bad news is that William Jefferson (Democrat- Louisiana) was reelected with 57 percent of the vote.The good news is that the turnout was only 16 percent.The predictable news was that no one in the media thought a turnout that low was extraordinary.But, then, we are talking about Louisiana and New Orleans in particular. And our own lamebrain media and the Democrat party. No wonder the

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-10469073625494144442006-12-10T10:51:00.000-08:002006-12-11T10:22:10.256-08:00

Headline: UN downgrades man's impact on the climateReality: Global scammers have overhyped their predictions of dire hurricanes and rising sea levels and lost credibility. And -- this is where the gun meets the bullet -- none of the Kyoto Accord countries have reduced emissions. In fact, they have increased emissions.Plus, I strongly suspect the real reason is that those countries who intended to

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-13255453920573763492006-12-09T20:53:00.000-08:002006-12-10T11:02:06.966-08:00

The Joys of Marxism - Zimbabwe. ZIMBABWE has the highest inflation and lowest life expectancy in the world, not to mention the highest percentage of orphans. So desperate is the shortage of food that President Robert Mugabe’s own guards have been spotted shooting squirrels in Harare’s Botanical Gardens.Of course, the media is doing their part by not mentioning that Mugabe is a Marxist reviving

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-5067121488951965952006-12-09T20:23:00.000-08:002006-12-09T20:40:23.254-08:00

When the notoriously leftwing Toronto Star says the new United Nations Human Rights Council is "flirting with `irrelevancy'" and questions whether they are even necessary, you know the Council is so flagrant even the most leftwing can no longer deny it. With a range of experts already monitoring human rights, some critics question whether a human rights council made up of governments, which have

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-60959760670175193112006-12-07T15:22:00.000-08:002006-12-07T15:27:53.295-08:00

How many Democrats -- and independents and Libertarians -- would have voted for Democrats in the last election if they actually knew they were voting for this? European Socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats Howard Dean is attending the two-day conference together with the leaders of leftist governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.

Mediaskepticnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7631226.post-38129099920525745532006-12-07T09:19:00.000-08:002006-12-07T09:38:13.487-08:00

Why don't Republicans have these kinds of passions before elections? Sen. James M. Inhofe, in one of his final actions as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, held a hearing to investigate whether press accounts have "over-hyped" predictions of global warming.Yellow Republicans, who are afraid of shadows and media criticism, run away from convictions as though they were signs

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