Archives for the 'media' Category
FuFu Kuku
Published on 8 May 2008 at 11:27 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, Palestinians.
What, no YuYu? A couple of great new characters at Hamas TV. FuFu and KuKu want to eradicate the Zionist Entity, you know the usual, but I like this part:
Sons of Iraq
Published on 4 May 2008 at 11:39 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Ardolino at Long War Journal on Baghdad’s Shia Awakening, some Sadr City neighbors who aren’t crazy about the Mahdi Army.
More Attacks Like This, Please
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:42 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Insurgents take troops by sandstorm! Exclamation mark mine, as the Sydney Morning Herald, irrationally exuberant, apparently forgot to add one when it was busy missing the point:
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Watching the BBC Makes You Sick
Published on 22 Apr 2008 at 5:52 am.
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No, it’s not the bias. This time, at least:
It cost £550,000 and was supposed to usher in a new era for the BBC. But the much-heralded redesign of the corporation’s flagship news bulletins got off to a shaky start after viewers complained of dizziness and nausea.
So where’s the real news here? I know many viewers […]
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All the News that’s…
Published on 20 Apr 2008 at 5:18 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under media, military.
Dave, from Small Wars Journal, here. It’s quite an honor to be Jules guest and I am humbled. A hot topic of discussion over at SWJ is today’s NYT item Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand that makes the claim that a “Pentagon information apparatus” has used a group of retired military officers in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance. So, in my first post as a guest blogger, I give you SWJ guest blogger LTC Robert Bateman…
Umbrage Taken
Published on 18 Apr 2008 at 11:28 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under media.
As a professional tabloid journalist, I take offense at the suggestion that there is something wrong with what I do for a living. The Nation:
Brave New World
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 9:41 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
That’s what Bilal Hussein will walk into when he is freed Wednesday, if he’s heading home to Fallujah.
Frippery Decried
Published on 13 Apr 2008 at 8:11 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under media, military, moronocy.
Dick Cavett uses up valuable bits of Internet space making fun of “fripperies” (military awards) and dickering over semantics in an anti-Petraeus, anti-Crocker, anti-war rant that contributes exactly zip to the debate. Wasn’t that guy the host of a somewhat intellectual kind of lefty talk show about 100 years ago? It’s pathetic when the opposition is this lame. Here’s […]
ONN
Published on 11 Apr 2008 at 2:03 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, mockery.
9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says
My new favorite news source. Onion Network News. 9/11 conspiracy theories “ridiculous,” says al-Qaeda. Tastelessness alert.
Reality Checks
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 9:31 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Iran, media, military.
Lots of talk out there about what’s real, what’s not. Big reality roundup below, but first, this week’s Irony Cross with oakleaf clusters to repeat honoree Harry Reid.
“We are stuck in a twilight zone in Iraq,” Reid said.
He hasn’t been in the news much lately. You’ll remember him as part of the war-ending Democratic mandate. No cruel Twilight […]
Long Walk
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 8:14 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
One more anniversary nod to the late, great Michael Kelly from my friend Sig at the San Antonio Express-News. Sig describes a long walk and some talk along Gulf Road. Familiar ground along the bay in Kuwait City, my old running route from the apartment at Bibi House. Then,
Hopes Quashed
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 12:12 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
This is really terrible. It looks like the murdering Americans have made a real mess of things in Baghdad. Again. AP:
Wife-Beatage Journalism 101
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 8:47 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
A fascinating exercise in elementary “When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife” journalism at a top-shelf deep-think venue is made all the more ironic because it involves 60 Minutes’ Kroft misrepresenting what Douglas Feith is saying about the administration’s line on the Iraq invasion. It could be used as a textbook case of Bush lied, people died logic:
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Israel = Hamas
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 6:33 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, vietnam, Israel, Palestinians.
That’s the official NYT Radio position. Powerline.
Meanwhile, in other NYT distortions, Basra = Tet. Malkin.
Charlton Heston
Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 11:43 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under media, guns, Hollywood.
Won’t be down for manna. LA Times proclaims larger-than-lifeness, cites gun advocacy and conservative darling status like its something to be apologetic about.
Here Is Your War
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 1:04 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Title borrowed from the collected columns of another great dead war correspondent. As long as we’re on war correspondent tributes. Kelly was a literary big-picture guy. Bloom was a gritty this-is-what-it’s-like TV guy. But nowadays GIs can tell their own stories in real time every bit as well as Ernie Pyle, as the great Gordon Alanko […]
Michael Kelly
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 11:28 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Newsbusters on Krauthammer, looking for Obama’s Michael Kelly. Hillary already got hers. He was killed five years and a couple of days ago. Wehner at NRO remembers that. I remember Kelly, when I met him and David Bloom on March 11, 2003, the last time I saw him on March 31, 2003, and April 6, 2003, after […]
Pneumatic Petard Hoist
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 8:35 am.
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Filed under media.
It’s powered by potty gas.
Air America corks it. I don’t see what the problem is. I thought that was the norm for political discourse leftward.
Hang on. Althouse explains calling Hillary a whore is comedy. Well, humor does have to have an element of truth to be funny. Patterico re other funny stuff at Air America.
Crooks and Liars […]
Another Bite at the Apple
Published on 1 Apr 2008 at 9:26 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, transsexuals.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s new prisons commissioner will consider whether to continue to deprive a murderer of his right to state-subsided gender-bending surgery. via Boston Herald:
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Bad VooDoo’s War
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 8:56 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, media.
On Frontline April 1, 9 p.m. Note ad at right.* I got a review tape, but didn’t have much time for watching TV this week, and was a little Frontlined out after 4.5 hours of utter crap last week anyway. Here’s a review by Blackfive, who liked it and suggests you watch. He knows some of […]
Old Geezer Acts Normal
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 7:26 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under media, McCain.
Rosen gets it. Why does the press by and large like McCain?
Grim Milestone
Published on 24 Mar 2008 at 11:19 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Grim milestone headline, grim milestone lede, grim milestone 2nd graph in this AP article at MSNBC. It can’t get much grimmer. AP posits hopefully:
Bush’s War
Published on 24 Mar 2008 at 8:07 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Frontline’s four-and-a-half-hour epic, airing tonight and tomorrow night on PBS, isn’t actually about Bush. It’s not really about his war, either. “Cabinet Infighting” would have been a better title.
Short review: Cheney-Rumsfeld Junta lied, people died. Surge? What surge? Longer review here.
Disclosure: Frontline paid me money for that ad to right. I endeavored not to be influenced by that […]
It’s the Clintons, Stupid
Published on 22 Mar 2008 at 7:29 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, Clintons.
Exasperated Politico, scratching its head over the indomitable Energizer Clinton, examines the “Clinton myth,” informs us the media is too much invested in Clinton to admit her defeat, does the math that incontrovertibly shows Obama just squeaking past her, talks about how all she has left is “electability” and the hope of an Obama disaster … brushing […]
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Islamic Jihad
Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 10:14 am.
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Filed under media, Islam, rage.
Gets its own rage boy. Snapped Shot captures a Reuters snapper’s love of his subject.
That rage boy looks better fed than this one. TNOYF, howzabout a little dueling rage boys.
No Money No Honey
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:29 pm.
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Filed under pols, media, sex, America.
Here’s what purports to be the alleged hooker’s putative ambulance chaser’s letter.
Mudville Spots a Trend
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:07 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
It’s not the same one assorted media outlets started touting after a bad week in Iraq.
Speaking of assorted media outlets, here’s one that can’t wait for a certain grim milestone:
“Ever Been A Pallbearer Before?”
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:02 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
“No, what do I need to do?”
“Just carry him.”
AP’s Todd Pitman, who has done good work as a grunt-level newsman, on the death of a friend last year in Diyala.
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Precedent Set
Published on 14 Mar 2008 at 2:55 pm.
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Filed under media, sex, money.
Great news for people who think they should be able to grab any newsworthy photo off the Internet and use it as they choose. You know, comment on it, mock it, point out that it was staged, stare in slack-jawed goober amazement at it, etc. The Associated Press agrees with you. Ironically enough, it’s about that hooker. […]
Yeah, But
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 8:08 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Kuhn at Politico thinks last month’s Pew poll showing growing confidence in the Iraq war effort will remake the presidential debate. With Dems still pushing unconditional withdrawal, independents will swing McCainward. What Kuhn fails to note, however, is the return of the “Yeah, But” narrative in war reportage.
Big-Hearted Man
Published on 11 Mar 2008 at 12:38 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, food, romance.
Too big to make his date:
Irreverent, Annoying, Irksome, Badgering, Outrageous, Embarrassing
Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 11:43 am.
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Filed under blogs, media.
… media criticism as a Classical Value.
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Scribbler Rage
Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 11:01 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under media, griping.
At AngryJournalist.com. Type and gripe just hit the 21st century. Type and whine was already there.
KNews
Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 8:54 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under media, Kim, Korea.
WSJ’s “Rare Glimpse at Pyongyang” vid. What is interesting is how closely this supposedly objective reactionary propaganda resembles the demented, madcap, anti-Juche presentation of “Team America: World Police.”
Here’s your one-stop spot if you want some straight NK reporting.
Race, Sex, Religion
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 10:09 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, racism, sexism.
There’s something to piss off nearly everyone.
PTSD Watch
Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 5:47 am.
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Filed under media, PTSD, McCain.
Will he get annoyed? Irked? Strike a tone? Fail to be sufficiently deferential? Temperament watch on John McCain catches him expressing frustration with an idiotic needling by a NYT reporter. I bet some grumpy old editor put her up to it.
Sick Joke?
Published on 6 Mar 2008 at 11:16 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, moronocy.
Or utter cluelessness? You decide. NYT: “The One-Eyed Invader in the Bedroom.”
It’s an article about children. Which makes what would otherwise be a funny headline, and the cluelessness, kind of disturbing.
Legal Jihad
Published on 2 Mar 2008 at 7:52 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under blogs, media.
America’s largest news agency has sent the lawyers after a blogger, who happens to be a long-time critic, on fair use.
Last Harrah
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:50 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under media, military, Britain, Afghanistan.
The best part about a combat deployment in Afghanistan? No paparazzi. A chance to be normal. via Boston Herald:
Bias Bias
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:31 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media.
Results in bias. And a correction. Who else? NYT, skewered by Powerline.
Global Panic
Published on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:13 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, Boston.
As Boston’s Gray Baglady gets ready to sell off more jewelry. Boston Herald:
Flanking Attack
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:58 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, McCain.
Having failed as yet to get McCain on a morals charge, NYT mulls the question of whether he’s sufficiently American:
Txt Msg: The Redcoats Are Coming
Published on 24 Feb 2008 at 10:35 am.
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Filed under media, military.
2nd Stryker Btn CPT Hsia at Small Wars Journal says the US military needs to rethink OPSEC because it’s spilling out all over the place between embedding and rampant wiredness. Embedding, troop wiredness, contractors and joint operations all create vulnerabilities.
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Unfit To Print
Published on 24 Feb 2008 at 9:12 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under pols, media, McCain.
NYT Public Editor says of McCain smear job. NYT:
Gray Lady
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 5:53 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, McCain.
Still a powerful voice. Con cons influenced to back McCain after NYT attack. NYT:
NYT Scandal
Published on 22 Feb 2008 at 10:42 am.
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Filed under media, McCain.
NYT would like to hear from you. Talk to the Newsroom:
Embedded Romp
Published on 20 Feb 2008 at 8:48 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, media, military, lebanon, Afghanistan.
Sounds like Danger Room blogger and serial embed David Axe has a book in him. Here’s a five-minute spin through multiple embeds with seven armies in three countries. CJR.
Jihad
Published on 20 Feb 2008 at 10:41 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military, Jihad.
ABC likes it. Walking around it with Petraeus, sans body armor, that is:
Mean-spirited Rightwing Scribbler
Published on 20 Feb 2008 at 8:44 am.
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Filed under pols, media.
Cuts Obama a break, accuses Clinton of ripping him off. Boston Herald’s Howie Carr, in his defense of Obama, notes he’s accused Obama of regurgitating Patrick lines long before Hillary did. It’s not so much honor among thieves … let’s face it, all professional bloviators, pols and otherwise, are practitioners of Grand Theft Wordo sooner […]
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“ROE” Reviews
Published on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:36 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military, lawyers.
Jimbo likes it. PBS convinced the Blackfive stalwart the 3/1 Marines were innocent at Haditha. That may be preaching to the choir, but Jimbo’s astonished considering who was in the pulpit. My thoughts on that here. Jawa, similarly astounded, weighs in with a conviction: Murtha, jackass. Awaiting further reports, particularly interested in what the anti-war faction […]
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