In which the Washington Bureau Chief still doesn’t get foreigners

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 12:00 pm, January 25, 2012

One must suppose any state with a functioning hereditary monarchy has let obsession with the rich and famous get out of hand.  Here in the states, we got rid of royalty and replaced it with Hollywood, the U.S. Senate, and drunk Kennedys.  These individuals support a rip-roaring pulp journalism industry, which those of us with degrees pretend not to [...]

ICYMI: Do Journalistic Ethics Still Apply?

by admin | 6:09 pm, January 23, 2012

From a piece at Colorado’s new Open Government Institute: If we assume that Univision’s ethics policies are in line with other large media outlets, we can’t help but wonder why [Mario] Carrera recently received a large promotion, instead of a large pink slip. As reported by the Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels, Carrera, previously the vice [...]

Brave New Films Bravely Fails in Koch “Setup”

by T.L. James | 11:45 am, November 13, 2011

Oops. “Truth-telling” filmmaker Robert Greenberg needs to find less-inept assistants. Apparently, in trying to “prove” that the Kochs are “unresponsive” to critics, Greenberg’s team made several phone calls to a Koch number in rapid succession, leaving a recorded message each time — and in a couple of cases, accidentally recording themselves after they thought they’d [...]

PPC’s Re|Education Camp: A Value Proposition

by elpresidente | 3:44 pm, September 20, 2011

Why PPC’s Re|Education Camp you might ask? Simply put–we’re better than the competition. More advanced and thorough than similar digital training camps, yet at a better price. That’s not to say that other training camps aren’t helpful or useful. We’ve been to some of them ourselves, and found them to be good in areas PPC [...]

Incuriousness From The Washington Post

by Joshua Sharf | 10:23 pm, August 30, 2011

In a generally upbeat assessment of how Muslims feel about America, and about their place in it, the Washington Post drops this bit about how American Muslims feel about the job their own clergy is doing in fighting radicalism: The Pew study found that six in 10 U.S.-born Muslims faulted Islamic leaders for not speaking [...]

Media Bias? What Media Bias?

by elpresidente | 9:38 am, August 29, 2011

There is a media bias, according to Professor Tim Groseclose of UCLA, and a rather substantial one at that. His new book, “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind,” uses what he calls peer-reviewed (Harvard) “political quotient” measurements to establish where any particular person falls on a political spectrum. Groseclose also measures [...]

‘Wrong, But Accurate!’

by T.L. James | 9:31 pm, June 6, 2011

Charles Johnson says he won’t apologize for treating the Weiner Twitter scandal as a phony ‘nontroversy’ fabricated by Andrew Breitbart now that Weiner has admitted to it, because…umm…Andrew Breitbart is dishonest and sleazy. And even if Breitbart’s right, being sleazy makes him wrong. Or something. If anyone actually cares. ADDED: HotAir has a clip just released by ABC [...]

Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, June 2, 2011

Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer.

Why Cato’s Michael Cannon has boycotted PolitiFact:

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, May 19, 2011

Why PolitiFact’s claims are not always factual.

Can we trust the media?

by Amy Oliver | 3:22 pm, May 18, 2011

When it comes to transparency and a free society, the fourth estate is vital. So what does it mean when the news media becomes the story? Consider these gems: Liberal billionaire George Soros has spent more than $48 million funding media properties, including the infrastructure of news – journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry [...]

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