Archives for the 'media' Category
Gray Lady
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 5:53 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under McCain, media.
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.
No Comments.
Filed under McCain, media.
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 Afghanistan, Iraq, lebanon, media, military.
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, Jihad, media, military.
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.
No Comments.
Filed under media, pols.
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, lawyers, media, military.
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 [...]
Frontline’s Haditha: “Rules of Engagement”
Published on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:02 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Airing on PBS Tuesday, Feb. 19. Check your local listings and make a note. Preview trailers here.
I just finished watching a review copy. If you want to know the basics on this political football, see principal participants and witnesses interviewed — Marines, Haditha survivors, reporters and lawyers — and see extensive private and military video [...]
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Scientific Enstupidment
Published on 15 Feb 2008 at 10:55 pm.
11 Comments.
Filed under media, moronocy, science.
Is tonight’s dorm room bull session topic. This starts to sound a lot like the way some people report the news and other people react to it. Among other things. Via the superlative John Hawks:
In behavioral studies, an anomalous individual may be identified as an outlier and excluded from statistical analyses so as not to [...]
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Voice of Experience
Published on 14 Feb 2008 at 11:16 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Clintons, media, pols.
States eloquently: Don’t get sucked in by the eloquence.
MSNBC, Pimp My Cause!
Published on 10 Feb 2008 at 9:19 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under media.
MSNBC, where content is controlled by the candidates! Surber wonders if everyone would get the same consideration. Hang on, we may have an answer: MSNBC’s double pimping standard, via Olbermann Watch. What’s in a word, anyway?
With a Fourth Estate Like This
Published on 9 Feb 2008 at 10:16 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Intel, media.
Who needs a 5th column? Gabriel Schonfeld at the Weekly Standard on a federal subpoena for an NYT scribbler:
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Safer
Published on 4 Feb 2008 at 1:25 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Veteran newsman shares views. There’s some doddering. Hartford Courant:
Tabloid!
Published on 1 Feb 2008 at 11:37 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Boston, media.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
You know, they say it like it’s a bad thing.
Gutter Press Gets Action
Published on 31 Jan 2008 at 8:10 am.
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Filed under Europe, media, money, moronocy.
Spanish talk jocks put ghoulish driver’s Herald wire:
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Debating Point
Published on 31 Jan 2008 at 7:57 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Boston, media, pols.
El Heraldo, wielded as a brickbat:
A First
Published on 25 Jan 2008 at 10:00 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Iraq, al qaeda, media, pols.
The long-term strategic agreement with Iraq would be an alarming one, according to this article that offers a critical look at i’s that must be dotted, t’s that must be crossed, but fails to note how alarming the lack of an agreement might be. Boston Globe:
Distorted Morals
Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 10:37 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under culture, media, motherhood.
For some reason this, Times of London “Pope attacks media for ‘distorted morals,’” and this, SF Chron’s Daily Dish, “Jamie Lynn Spears to give baby to mom?” seem related.
Bill Upset
Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 8:48 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Clintons, media, pols.
Despite the potential for this election year to end in disaster, it’s turning into a great ride. CNN:
Taliban Is As Taliban Does
Published on 23 Jan 2008 at 9:06 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Islam, media.
I thought the point of that invasion was to bring an end to this kind of thing.* Afghan journo sentenced to death for humiliating Islam.
Jihadwatch’s prior. Apparently the offending article notes that Mohammed ignored the rights of women. Stop the presses. Dawn over Mecca.
* OK, so the point of it was to destroy al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda [...]
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Bush Lied!
Published on 23 Jan 2008 at 7:28 am.
14 Comments.
Filed under media, moronocy.
According to exhaustive study by journo navelgazers. Shocking conclusions.
What You Done For Jihad Lately?
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 8:57 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under al qaeda, media.
Is the big question for al-Zawahri as frustrated AQ fans post questions.
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“I Swerve To Avoid Them”
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 10:44 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Confederate Yankee has the Beauchamp docs, in which the New Republic’s eyes inside the war pens a correction re dogs flattened, boneplay. Like ConfYank, Drew at Ace cocks an eye at the nuance, sees more than just dogs being swerved around. Driscoll, meanwhile with more on the soldier-slandering industry.
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What Is Hip
Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 8:15 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under America, culture, media.
Sunday morning deep thots compliments of West Coast hipster Driscoll, who weighs in on Kelly and Steyn re Sinatra, Wayne, Hope vs Fonda etal in The Birth of Cool. Whether or not Sinatra succumbed to irony or not could make someone’s dissertation, though. Kelly, in case you don’t know him, was very cool, unironic, made [...]
Grim Milestone
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 9:39 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, pols.
Approaching. AP’s weekly tally places Iraq war dead at 3,927.
Acute Photography
Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:36 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, literary, media.
Everyone’s favorite warrior poet is going to be a war snapper now. Teflon Don, headed back:
El Guacamole y Los Chips, Siempre Juntos*
Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 12:32 pm.
11 Comments.
Filed under Clintons, illegals, media.
“No woman is illegal,” exclaims Hillary, upon being notified she’s trying to get an illegal alien’s vote. Game recovery bid, but it does raise questions about her basic knowledge of law, gender equality, pretty much about her common sense. Las Vegas Review Journal:
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Terra Incognita
Published on 31 Dec 2007 at 10:00 am.
22 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, media.
Apparently the newspaper of jihad enablance has only just figured out it doesn’t know which country it lives in. NYT editorial:
Grim Milestone
Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 8:31 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Missed by milestone-obsessed press. Chuck Simmins of Terrorist Death Watch:
Bilal Zenger
Published on 24 Dec 2007 at 8:15 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under crime, media.
Harper’s declares Bilal Hussein the new John Peter Zenger:
Voted Off New Hampshire
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:33 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, pols.
Concord Monitor’s ed board a few weeks ago admonished voters, it’s time to get serious. Ed board recognizes its first-in-the-nation duty to play coy, however. Gets wistful about the marginal Biden, and unendorses Romney. It’s a little like the buildup in a reality TV vote-off: ”Those whose names I didn’t call … will find out after the commercial break whether they get to [...]
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Look Back in Anger
Published on 22 Dec 2007 at 7:42 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Weekly Standard picks Petraeus for POTY, picks apart Time:
Questions for No. 2
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 8:17 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under al qaeda, media.
Yours and mine, at Pajamas.
McCain
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 7:49 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, pols.
Boston Herald endorsement:
There are times in this nation’s history so perilous that they cry out for a steady, experienced leader, a person so trusted that we would put the fate of this country in his hands.
This is one of those times, and Sen. John McCain is that person.
Vlad the Stabilizer
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 10:34 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Russia, media.
Gets Time’s nod as Man, excuse me, Person of the Year. What a waste:
Citizen Soldier
Published on 17 Dec 2007 at 7:45 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under media, military.
I was at the movies with my son over the weekend and guess what pops up on the screen. “Citizen Soldier,” Three Doors Down, full song-length music video tribute that doubles as a recruiting pitch for the National Guard.
Now You See News
Published on 15 Dec 2007 at 10:19 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Now you don’t. Gateway’s round up of faux Iraq news.
Justice for Bilal
Published on 10 Dec 2007 at 9:20 am.
14 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
Jimbo of Blackfive weighs in at Pajamas with a little more on Bilal Hussein, why and to what extent he was on the U.S. military’s radar before they found him with an al-Qaeda leader at his breakfast table. Pulitzer Prize in Terrorism:
Black like Barack
Published on 9 Dec 2007 at 9:49 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under media, moronocy, pols, racism.
I think what Andrew Young, former top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is trying to tell us here is that we shouldn’t judge Obama by the color of his skin. Rather, we should judge Hillary by her man’s soul content.
So Much for Principles
Published on 9 Dec 2007 at 9:21 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, military.
NBC caves on troop-gratitude ad:
UnSupport the Troop Supporters
Published on 8 Dec 2007 at 9:36 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under media, military.
NBC vs. Freedom’s Watch “Thank You” Christmas message to the troops.
Even al-CNN and al-New York Times ran FW ads. But I wonder if FW got the special discount NYT gives to political interest groups on war-related issues.
Here, by the way, is the Freedom’s Watch site.
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Who Wants To Be An Apostate Infidel?
Published on 8 Dec 2007 at 9:26 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Islam, media.
More MEMRI, this time a thoughtful discussion of who is an apostate, the appropriate treatment of apostates, whether denial of polygamy makes you an infidel. How come we can’t get good must-see TV like this around here?
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Ink On Pulp
Published on 7 Dec 2007 at 11:57 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under media.
You may have noticed a Boston Globe ad pop up on one of the GoogleAd slots. I have no control over that. I strongly advise everyone to subscribe to a daily newspaper, or buy one or more regularly at newstands. However …
On A Sad Note
Published on 7 Dec 2007 at 10:51 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
A Project for Excellence in Journalism study finds Iraq has dominated news coverage. Too bad our major news organizations have done such wretched and biased job of it.
Wife-Beating Stopped When?
Published on 3 Dec 2007 at 9:54 pm.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Iraq, media.
Big news today that the NIE is hedging on Iran. That’s being reported a couple of different ways. Big political flap, though I notice they didn’t actually changed the schedule on how long it could take Iran to make a bomb. Just like the Dems are saying, Iran’s like Iraq … but it’s not that Bush-lied thing. Iran responded to military pressure [...]
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P.S. We Effed Up
Published on 1 Dec 2007 at 8:06 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under BS, media.
Fourteen pages in, after bashing his critics and going to pains to show how responsible he was, Foer informs us he has been irresponsible and bails on Beauchamp:
Starting to Exhale
Published on 20 Nov 2007 at 9:33 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, pols.
NYT re Baghdad: “Security improvements in most neighborhoods are real.” My question is, if joyous, returning Iraqis can exhale now, how about Harry Reid?
One Example Please
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 11:26 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
More fun on al Jazeera as an indignant Saudi international law expert fumes over the hypocrisy of historically genocidal Americans getting worked up about the Armenians, continues with Holocaust, what Holocaust? and No Blood for Oil!
Al Jaz interviewer chimes in helpfully that the hated Crusaders have killed 1.5 million Iraqis and deformed 8 million Vietnamese with Agent Orange.
Wiseacre [...]
Day in Court
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 10:53 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
UPDATED. Bilal Hussein, AP insurgent affairs photographer, is up for his day in court.
Al-Jazeera Smackdown
Published on 16 Nov 2007 at 8:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
Quote of the week:
“As you know, these voters are a bunch of people misled and numbed by the proselytizing, generalized, deceptive, romanticized discourse, which promises them black-eyed virgins and boys in Paradise, and such things … If those voters had managed to get a job and a visa to America, none of them would have [...]
Suicidal GIs
Published on 14 Nov 2007 at 2:40 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under media.
It’s epidemic! No, not GI suicide … I mean the GI suicide myth. Even CBS and august epidemiologists who should know better are swallowing it.
