Category: News Critique

Dishonest Journalism – And Fact Check FAIL ( by me)

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Oooops! So, I woke up this morning, and while I was scanning the news, I saw this headline. CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs I scanned the short piece, and applied the usual safeguards: the meat of the article seemed plausible, there was a link to the CBO report, and the link […]

Wednesday March 14th, 2012 in Economics, Journalism, News Critique | No Comments »

Spoken Words And The Dead.

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There is a lot of conversation about how some are handling and writing about the death of Andrew Breitbart. Here are my thoughts. Being a student of mass media (BA in Telecommunication, specializing in Radio Video Film production – note – video editing) and also having family in the news business, I have more than […]

Friday March 2nd, 2012 in News Critique | 1 Comment »

From The “De Za Vu All Over Again” Dept.

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Trying to atone for the administration’s failure to support SOPA, in order to appease the tin-eared Tinsel Town transplants, Murdoch media paymasters, and restore the flow of money Hollywood moguls and their families and friends and neighbors and housemaids, etc. to his campaign, Obama must have hired Hollywood writers to create last nights SOTU address… […]

Wednesday January 25th, 2012 in Fun Bits!, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | No Comments »

Blind Spots And Seeing Things That Aren’t There

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While I agree with him that FOX news is not being very “fair and balanced” for not having Andrew Sullivan on any of their programs when discussing the recent article he wrote for Newsweek, Sully goes way too far in describing a phrase uttered by a Fox-ite as “homophobic”. Here is the conversation Andrew is […]

Domestic Terrorism… It’s What’s For Dinner

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There are times when I wonder if anyone is paying attention to anything anymore. A few days ago, a domestic terrorist group committed arson against Harris Ranch, one of the prominent local beef producers here in California. This is not one of those huge industrial farms run by AMD, mind you, but a truly local […]

Journalistic FAIL – Christian Group Prays For George Michael’s Death? UPDATE: There Were Prayers For His Death… But, Not By A Church.

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That’s what the story says. Here is the MSNBC take on this episode: Loving your fellow man…the golden rule…all concepts apparently lost on a radical, hate-propagating Christian group known as Christians for a Moral America. Back in November, when George Michael went through a lengthy hospitalization after a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, fans and friends […]

Thursday January 5th, 2012 in I Was Wrong!, News Critique | 1 Comment »

Things That Make You Go…. “Huh?” (the games people play) UPDATE X 2: So Much Dishonesty On Both Sides. This Stuff Is Just Pissing Me Off

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Republican House Leader John Boehner is complaining that the Obama administration is committing an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,” for making a recess appointment. “The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our constitution,” Boehner said. Checks and […]

Wednesday January 4th, 2012 in News Critique, Stupid Government | No Comments »

Real Clear Cognitive Dissonance!

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A headline from Real Clear Politics:   ABC’s Sawyer Says Palin “Targeted” Gabby Giffords In Special On Congresswoman   OK.  But then, they print exactly what Dianne Sawyer said: DIANE SAWYER: “So does Gabby Giffords really want to go back to Washington? Back where she was once called ‘the most positive person in Congress.’ “Staying […]

Wednesday November 16th, 2011 in News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | No Comments »

From The “Where’s Waldo” File

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When do Conservative news outlets shy away from covering a news story? What if it’s a Marine, participating in something you don’t approve of???? The Conservative news circuit loves to note, sometimes rightfully so, that when a Democrat does something stupid or shameful, they are treated with kid gloves in the main stream media when […]

Thursday October 27th, 2011 in News Critique | No Comments »

Barrack Obama… He’s Magical!!!!!

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Andrew Sullivan writes: Obama call for Assad to step down in a way calculated not to seem like internal meddling…. What???? If you’re demanding that a world leader step down even if you’re absolutely right in making that demand… I’m sorry, you ARE meddling in the affairs of other countries! I mean, really! If the Russian […]