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• Slate Trawls Facebook to Find Anti-Giuliani Scoop From Ex-Mayor's Daughter

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Lucy Morrow Caldwell, Rudy Giuliani, Online Media, Facebook, Slate, Journalistic Issues

  Slate magazine found out that Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline has a crush on Obama. Well, maybe not a crush, but she had joined a pro-Obama Facebook group and describes herself as "liberal" (but then that's also how many Republican voters would describe Caroline's father). The article, complete with evidentiary screen grab, was written

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• Black Liberal Blogger: WashPost Wrong on Hand-Wringing on Diversity

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Jose Antonio Vargas, Online Media, Blogs, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reported in the August 6 paper about worries in the Yearly Kos crowd that the liberal blogosphere is too white and too male. Critiquing that August 6 article, Jack Turner of "Jack & Jill Politics" disagreed with Vargas' assessment that every attendee at YearlyKos was wringing his or her hands

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• Palm Beach Post: Using Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:39 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Media Bias Debate, Palm Beach Post, Journalistic Issues

  The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled "This century hotter than last, group finds," supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was

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• Local Papers Ignore Lewd Gestures, Taunts Aimed at Firemen Forced to Participate in "Gay Pride" Parade

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:54 pm

  Tags: Sexuality, Journalistic Issues

  Four firefighters who say there were forced to participate in San Diego's "Gay Pride" parade and subjected to "vile sexual taunts" have filed a complaint and plan to sue the city. According to the Thomas More Law Center, four firefighters were forced to participate in the parade against their will and were "subjected to

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• New Republic Freelancer Recants Tales

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:16 am

  Tags: Iraq, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, New Republic, Journalistic Issues

  Can't say we haven't seen this before: Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a writer for the New Republic, has recanted his tales of American military savagery according to the Weekly Standard (h/t Powerline): The Weekly Standard has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed

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• Jesse Jackson's Anti-Gun Claims Unchallenged by the AP

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Guns, Media Bias Debate, Jesse Jackson, Chicago, Journalistic Issues

  advocating for Jackson's issues, nor does it absolve them from trying harder to present both sides. Where is a "fairness doctrine" when you need one? The worst quote of the piece, however, is that of an aggrieved and ill informed parent of one of Chicago's children lost to gun violence. Holt's mother stood with Jackson after Monday's

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• Founder of Mine Company Slams The Press For Misleading Reporting

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: The Associated Press, Journalistic Issues

  Bob Murray is the founder and President of Murray Energy Corporation, the company that owns and operates the Utah mine that collapsed after and earthquake struck the area on August 6th. Apparently he has been under a lot of pressure from the mainstream media and various interest groups to accept blame for what he calls a natural disaster. But Mr.

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• New Republic Refuses to Retract Thomas 'Reports'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Military, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Media Scandals, New Republic, Journalistic Issues

  due to the liability issues involved with the companies that hired them. KBR and CACI both had in place strict rules regarding hostile action and evacuation of ANYONE who might have been wounded or otherwise "injured in line of duty" so as to cover themselves legally in case of potential lawsuits and otherwise. The idea that a

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• Obama Calls Canadian Prime Minister a 'President' - Where is Media Ridicule?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:43 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Canada, Cnn, Journalistic Issues

  At the Democrat Party presidential debates last Tuesday, Barack Obama revealed that he didn't know that our Canadian neighbors to the north had a prime minister instead of a president leading them. Yet the MSM has practically ignored this obvious gaffe, with few of them making much of the incident. This is a far cry from how Bush was so virulently

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• NY Post: Comparisons to Genocidal Tyrant' Almost Killed Dow Jones Deal

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Media Bias Debate, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Journalistic Issues

  The call from the Ivory Tower just wasn't strong enough to stop media mogul Rupert Murdoch from buying Dow Jones & Company. But, it came really close. "Murdoch also said the media's harsh coverage of him during negotiations with the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones, almost squashed the deal," wrote New York Post reporter

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• Reuters: Fooled by Another Fake Iraq 'Massacre'

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Media Bias Debate, War On Terrorism, Reuters, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues

  How many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a "massacre of Iraqi civilians" that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists? How ever many that may be, the tally is certainly on its way to overflowing and here we have another galling

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• AP Editors Taking a Break?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: Guns, Associated Press, Journalistic Issues

  An interesting story on Fox News tells of a Boston man who was robbed while visiting Phoenix. First, we must remember that Boston, being part of the People's Republic of Massachusetts, does not allow people to carry concealed firearms for personal protection. Therefore, this man was not armed, unlike concealed carry licensees from the 40

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• Surge Derangement Syndrome Grips MSM and Liberals

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Iraq, David Petraeus, Surge, Journalistic Issues

  With the success of the surge in Iraq becoming more evident with each passing day, a new ailment has gripped the Mainstream Media and the liberals: Surge Derangement Sydrome (SDS). The earliest known case of SDS occurred on April 23 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded to a question by CNN's congressional correspondent Dana Bash about

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• LAT: 'Suggestions by U.S. Politicians' That Pakistan Be Attacked Has No Mention of Obama

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Foreign Policy, Media Bias Debate, War On Terrorism, Musharraf, L Times, Journalistic Issues

  The L.A. Times has morphed Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's over-the-top campaign rhetoric that he would attack Pakistan into "suggestions by U.S. politicians that American forces unilaterally strike" that country. But, no where did the story mention Obama, nor that no Administration officials are advocating such a move.

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• USA Today: Forced Military Training for Chinese Kids is 'Camp' to 'Inspire Patriotism, Teamwork and Sacrifice'

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:10 am

  Tags: Chidren, Media Bias Debate, Military, China, Usa Today, Journalistic Issues

  USA Today lends a big assist in promulgating Chinese propaganda as the paper helps explain away the nature of the forced military training that Chinese children undergo. Calling the compulsory training a benign sounding "camp" and presenting the children's training as if it is a mere Summer excursion, USA Today soft sells China's militarization of

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