The New York Times is facing hard times. Readership has been falling since 1990 and the trend shows no signs of reversing. The paper’s motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, but is more accurately described as “”All the News That Fits the Leftist Agenda.” A study of media bias by the University [...]
A few years back, MSNBC published an excellent bit of investigative journalism, The list: Journalists who wrote political checks, on the topic of professional journalists who give money to politicians. In the article, Bill Dedman identified 143 journalists who had given money to political causes. He found 125 journalists who had given to Democrats and [...]
MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann indefinitely and without pay. This is effectively the same as firing Keith, but keeping the door open for an easy re-hire if the ratings suffer as a result of the change. The mainstream media is more about ratings than morals. Chris Hays is currently replacing Olbermann; if his ratings are good [...]
NPR recently fired Juan Williams for comments he made as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor. The key comment that NPR management appear to be opposed to is: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I [...]
I just finished reading Glenn Beck’s Happy Warriors in the Wall Street Journal. It was an editorial piece by James Freeman, the assistant editor of the Journal’s editorial page. The piece reminded me of how much I love the WSJ. Newspapers across the country are failing and being closed. Most of the newspapers that are [...]
Thomas Jefferson wrote “When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.” I had to count well past a hundred before I could write this blog post about Glenn Beck’s recent error. The time has allowed my anger to mellow into deep disappointment and sadness. Over the last few years, I have [...]
