I’m off to Denver (1)
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Sorry for the light blogging the last few days, but I’ve been getting ready to go to the land of Colorado. It will be pretty crazy in Denver, but it should be very, very interesting. I can’t wait to meet so many of my on-line friends and party activists for the first time. I’ll try to grab a few interviews and represent the Progressive movement as best as I can. You know traveling isn’t my ...
AP’s Ron Fournier Strikes Again - Writes Hit Piece On Obama’s VP Pick (1)
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We learned last month that the Associated Press’ DC bureau Chief Ron Fournier (pictured above, right, enjoying donuts with John McCain) is a huge fan of Karl Rove and the Bush administration and considered taking a job with the McCain campaign so when he stepped up to the plate for the GOP candidate this morning, it came as little surprise. The headline of his article says it all: Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence ...
How bad writing (and no editing) can bias readers (2)
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Here is a Press Trust of India newswires story that ran in Hindustan Times on 19 August. I have put in italics and underlined some words that are worth paying special attention to as you casually read this story. Ahmedabad blasts: Ken Haywood slips out of India The US national, whose computer Internet connection was used to send terror e-mail minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, left the country on Monday despite a look out notice issued ...
Crooks and Liars » Warren Asked Obama and McCain Different Questions (3)
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Two days after the fact, questions continue to surround John McCain’s surprisingly strong performance Saturday at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. The mainstream media and blogosphere alike are abuzz with rumors that McCain pierced Warren’s so-called “cone of silence” and, more serious still, may have purloined his legendary POW “cross in the dirt” story from the late Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. But on one point, there is no dispute. Despite CNN’s assurances to the contrary, Rick Warren ...
‘Medaling’ With Free Speech at the Olympics (Guest Voice) (1)
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This is a Guest Voice original-report post by journalism professor and author Walter Brasch who is also an award-winning syndicated newspaper columnist and radio commentator, and president of the Pennsylvania Press Club. ‘Medaling’ With Free Speech at the Olympics by Walter Brasch President Bush sounded just like a liberal. Yes, you read that right. Bush. Liberal. Same sentence. At the new U.S. embassy in Beijing on the opening day of the Olympics, he said, “All ...
Cokie Roberts attacks Obama for going to Hawaii instead of Myrtle Beach (4)
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Even though Cokie Roberts knows that Obama’s grandmother lives in Hawaii, he’s still acting like an elitist snob for taking a vacation instead of some place common people go, like Myrtle Beach, SC. Hey, it’s a party town. I think Obama should have Cokie make all his vacation plans from now on. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) Roberts: …going off this week I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know ...
David Gregory: Broader implications for the party (2)
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Yes, John Edwards had an affair that was handled privately and the Edwards story is big news. It will get the Anna Nicole Smith/Brett Favre treatment for a while now. Elizabeth Edwards responds here. From the email inbox: David Gregory just said young people were inspired by him and are let down…and questioned whether it will have “broader implications for the party.” during the election. This week, Ron Suskind’s book revealed the Bush team knew ...
Bob Somerby: Meet the Narrative (2)
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[image from Left Wing Conspiracy click for larger] Words to the wise by The Daily Howler: As has long been noted, voters prefer Democrats on most major issues; this has been the case for years. For that reason, Republicans have largely built White House campaigns around alleged issues of “character.” Especially in the Clinton-Gore era, the mainstream press corps played along, giving loud voice to comic-book claims. (Al Gore was raised at the Ritz!) Today, ...
Matthew Felling Talks About Talking Head Accountability: ‘(I)f somebody gets it wrong, they are grounded’ (1)
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Reliable Sources asked a question about the talking heads on TV that have been chattering about the VP picks. Matthew T. Felling, makes a great point about holding them accountable for a change and that’s something I’ve talked about also: Felling: I wish that we would see some accountability, where if somebody gets it right, you know, they get a little bit more airtime in the fall, but if somebody gets it wrong, they are ...
Kathy Hilton responds to McCain’s Celebrity ad: Frivolous and a waste (2)
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Responding to McCain’s use of Paris Hilton in an attack ad, Kathy Hilton reponds via The Huffington Post: I’ve been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are ...
Journalists and Communities: What I Told AJR (5)
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UPDATED Below, you’ll find a pointer to Will Bunch’s American Journalism Review story about journalists’ disconnection with the communities they cover. He interviewed me by email for this piece, and quoted from what I told him — accurately and in context — at the end of the article. For an even larger context, here’s what he asked, and what I replied (edited to remove redundancy now that I’ve added links to previous postings). Q: When ...
Reliable Sources covers CBS and the Couric/McCain editing scandal (1)
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Many bloggers have been covering the Couric/McCain editing scandal since it began. CNN’s Reliable Sources picked it up for a few minutes and even the MSMers agreed. Download | Play KURTZ: That is not what McCain said right after Katie said, “What’s your response to that?” And we see these pictures now of McCain with General Petraeus. That was used to cover an editing break, where then they substituted — not substituted, but added another ...
Spotted: Another Enlightened White Person on TV (1)
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As a public service, Blogenberg is launching The AEWP (Another Enlightened White Person) alert. One was spotted on Fox News Channel. Bob Beckel, ubiquitous Democratic strategist, was asked why it is, seemingly, that comedians, satirists, etc. are hesitant to make jokes about Barack Obama. “One, he’s black and I can say that as a liberal,” was Beckel’s response. On the Blogenberg AEWP meter this rates a double wow, as in Wow, I didn’t realize that ...
Obama at the Gym: Yet Another Reason to Despise the Media for Their Abominable Coverage of the Presidential Race (2)
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As if it weren’t enough that some in the media are turning the election into a referendum on Obama, thereby sparing McCain anything resembling serious scrutiny, and that the media are generally: – holding Obama to a much higher standard than they are McCain, emphasizing Obama’s nuanced policy shifts (and calling them opportunistic flip-flops) while letting McCain get away with flipping and flopping all over the place, pandering to different audiences, on issues like Iraq ...
Jon Stewart on Media Reaction to The New Yorker Cartoon (2)
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‘Nowhere was the anger at the media greater than in the media.’ Stewart eviscerates our reactive and sensation-loving media. He also has a good suggestion for how the Obama campaign should have responded.
New York Magazine: Joe Scarborough Is The Darling Of The Left (1)
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Like most Republicans these days, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough doesn’t mind taking pot shots at George Bush. Hell, it’s easy to do with the worst president in modern history, but jumping into the anti-Bush column certainly isn’t an act of bravery or a sign that he’s moved to the left. It means he knows which way the political winds are blowing and he needs good ratings. I truly believe Joe is unhappy with the direction the ...
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Karoli said:
Here's one for Francine Hardaway. :)
Flashback: 2004 Bush Interview Banned In America - An Insight Into Insanity (8)
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This 2004 interview should be required viewing for every journalism student. I admit that I had not seen this video until today, but apparently over a million people already have and I hope that millions more will watch it as well. If the American press corps and our corporate media had asked tough questions like this of President Bush and his administration during the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, there isn’t a doubt ...
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Luc Comeau said:
You have to see this. It was banned from airing on American TV!
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Magdalena Donea said:
I can't stand watching this all the way through, it turns my stomach. But I'm glad that journalists like this exist.
