Drive-by media
Reason number 1,352 why I don’t watch MSDNC
Read it at Politico.com
In not dignifying at least the office if not the man, the famed MSDNC duo of Olbermann and Matthews lose dignity themselves. Of course, they had none in the first place.
They also lose dignity for their network, but I guess the network bigwigs are finding their niche as evidenced by the recent [...]
Gannett plans to furlough employees for a week
From the New York Times
The Gannett Company, the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, said on Wednesday that it would force thousands of its employees to take a week off without pay in an effort to avoid layoffs.
This involves about 31,000 employees.
Also on Wednesday, USA Today notified its staff of a one-year pay freeze for all employees.
Most [...]
What would we do without CNN?
Civilians on both sides caught in crossfire
Amazing.
It does a heart good
The top ten media blunders of 2008
The media took its share of lumps this year, with persistent claims of bias and complaints about often wrong-headed speculation from a seemingly endless parade of talking heads.
The best part? Noting who made these blunders.
Pundits
NY Times
MSNBC, Olbermann, Matthews
FOX News (OK, one)
MSNBC again! Schuster
ABC, Gibson, Stephanopoulos
Main stream media
New Yorker
Pundits
CNN
Yes, it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The New York Times “error”
Ya gotta love it. You’ve about this, right? The NY Times prints a letter from the mayor of Paris. Only it’s not the mayor; the Gray Lady was punk*d.
Ann Althouse connects it with another famous punking,
Hey, remember that time Sarah Palin thought she was talking on the phone with Nicolas Sarkozy? The NYT presented that [...]
Mother of Palin daughter’s boyfriend arrested
And why is this relevant?
And what kind of headline is that? It sounds more like a West Virginia geneology.
Quick Hits 11/14/2008
Here’s more stuff I wanted to blog on but didn’t get to this week.
Chris Lufter was an able leader of the Waukesha Taxpayers League. It will be impossible to replace her. Hopefully she gets to enjoy her family now.
Remember how after the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis collapse, many shrilly indicted the infrastructure. I’m not saying [...]
Journal Sentinel announces new community columnists
I mention this because one of them may be familiar to some of us. Congratulations, Mr. Gravelle.
I always think of a guy I know who tells me that none of the other community columnists matched the first group. Would I be bragging too much if I agreed?
Media’s Presidential Bias
Elliot already linked and gave us a clip of this post by ABC’s Michael Malone, but here’s another which I think sums it up nicely,
If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, [...]
Good point, Mr. Kerrey
Former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey,
“If this thing was running the other way, if Obama was taking the public money and McCain had opted out and raised $150 million in September, do you think The New York Times would have an editorial against it? Do you think any of their columnists — do you think Maureen [...]
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