Category: News Critique

From The “I Know It Won’t Happen, But” Dept.

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Though it would probably be a sign of the apocalypse, wouldn’t be fun to have Olbermann end up getting a show on FOX? Do you know how many partisan heads would explode? And no Cliff, this is not what I mean!!! PS. It appears Olberman’s exit was not quite as sudden as it appeared.

Monday January 24th, 2011 in News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | 1 Comment »

Why Journalism Is Dying: Pt… Oh, I Lost Count.

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Dana Milbank has written an article on the recent RNC chair debate, noting how the vetting process shows nothing more than an “ideological cleansing” of the Republican party… Well Duh, I’ve been writing about that for years! And history shows that after a party loses power, as happened to Republicans in 2006 and 2008, they […]

Tuesday January 4th, 2011 in News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | No Comments »

Question Of The Day – “Does It?”

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Read this article about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s behind the scenes dealings with Feisal Abdul Rauf and the planners of the “Ground Zero” mosque. It ends like this: It seems that these emails show more than the usual amount of support coming from the mayor’s office. What’s missing from this article??? Showing that […]

Friday December 24th, 2010 in News Critique | No Comments »

Misleading Headline Of The Week

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“U.S. conservatives at odds with Vatican over condoms Several say they will only accept a more formal papal pronouncement” If you didn’t read the article, you would immediately think the “Conservatives” are referring to US politicians. That said, this is my favorite line from the story: “We’re in for a long period of confusion,” said […]

Wednesday November 24th, 2010 in Journalism, News Critique | No Comments »

FOX, Please Fire Glenn Beck.

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I was first alerted to this story by my blog friend David Schraub. Here’s more from The Daily Newsweek… er, I mean The Daily Beast (it was just announced that they had bought out Newsweek this morning). I watched some of the video of the Glenn Beck Show called “The Puppet Master” (hint, the movie […]

Friday November 12th, 2010 in Journalism, News Critique, Stupidity / Satire | 2 Comments »

Sarah Palin Versus Reading Comprehension!

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Either that, or she has a DeLorean Time Machine, in which case I apologizes in advance. So, upon my usual morning web surfing, I came across this headline: Sarah Palin Shreds WSJ Reporter For Not Being Able To Read His Own Paper Uh Oh, some reporter from the “lame-stream press” as she is so fond […]

Laugh Of The Day! Opinion – Uninterrupted; Olbermann unsuspended.

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Golly, I do hope those two days off learned him a lesson! Restating my assertion that Keith Olbermann never should have been suspended, NBC has thankfully ended it. He’ll be back on the air on Tuesday. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Olbermann’s program by any means, but to punish him, […]

Monday November 8th, 2010 in Journalism, News Critique, Stupidity / Satire | 2 Comments »

The Price Is Wrong!!!!

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This is the part where “The Price Is Right” music plays in your head. The price, of course, is for the trip to India President Obama is about to take. According to conservative rabble-rouser Mike Huckabee and Rep.  Michele Backmann, President Obama’s trip will be costing $200 million per day! WOW! Great Headline! Too bad […]

Saturday November 6th, 2010 in Journalism, News Critique, Stupidity / Satire | No Comments »

Stupid Headline Of The Day – “Your move, GOP: What about the empty houses?”

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Good Lord!!!! When you read this piece, it’s clear that the headline should be something like “Obama’s failed housing policies helped ensure GOP victory”. The writer spends most of the time being critical of Obama and the Democrats lame efforts to “keep people in their homes”. They failed miserably. Yet, it’s only two days after […]

Thursday November 4th, 2010 in Economics, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | No Comments »

NSMBC Versus The Tea Party Are Racists Meme

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MSNBC is showing a photo album of various Tea Party members / attendees, and many of the pictures includes… gasp.. “people of color”. Uh Oh… Someone’s going to get fired over this! Jeez. Next thing you know Scientific America will carry an even handed article talking about “climate skeptics”… Oh Crap!!!! Is hell freezing over […]

Monday October 25th, 2010 in Journalism, News Critique | No Comments »