Critics Point Out Movie About Dr. Kevorkian Is 'One-Sided

April 23rd, 2010 2:33 PM
HBO is airing a movie, “You Don’t Know Jack,” about the life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka: “Dr. Death”), who enabled the suicides of more than100 terminally-ill people. But the movie is so one-sided that even many mainstream media reviewers couldn’t help but point it out. USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe all noted how the movie favored assisted suicides. USA Today’s Robert…

New Global Warming Alarmism from LA Times: 'The World is Running Short

April 19th, 2010 2:45 PM
We have now reached the apex of "heads I win, tails you lose" global-warming alarmism. In his April 18 op-ed for the LA Times, author Eli Kintisch warned that "the world is running short on air pollution, and if we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks," global warming consequences could be "profound." Having painted themselves into an environmental conundrum,…

Investor's Business Daily: Climategate Gets a Whitewash

April 17th, 2010 7:53 AM
The editorial page at Investor's Business Daily noticed what the major media ignored or downplayed, once again: the latest Climategate development. They headlined their Friday editorial "Climategate Gets a Whitewash." The University of East Anglia commissioned two independent inquiries into what became known as the Climate-gate scandal. But just how "independent" was the latest report? IBD wasn't…

LA Times Columnist Pushes Secular Agenda in 'Welcome Letter' to New Bi

April 8th, 2010 4:50 PM
Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times addressed a "welcome letter" to the incoming Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose Gomez [at right], in a April 7 column which focused almost entirely in forwarding the mainstream media's talking points on the Church sex abuse scandal, and stereotyped the religious community that the bishop is a member of. Lopez wasted little time in delving into the…

Jeff Toobin Disagrees With L.A. Times on Mrs. Clarence Thomas' Activis

March 15th, 2010 2:17 PM
On Sunday's Newsroom, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin disputed the conclusion of the Los Angeles Times on the apparently shocking new political initiative of Clarence Thomas's wife Virginia Thomas, that it "could give rise to conflicts of interest for her husband...as it tests the norms for judicial spouses." Toobin defended Mrs. Thomas' grassroots conservative work.Anchor Don Lemon…

Report Says California Global Warming Law Will Cause Job Losses

March 10th, 2010 10:50 AM
A report released Monday says that California's new global warming law will increase unemployment in the Golden State.The announcement was in stark contrast to continual claims by the Left and their media minions that proposed cap and trade legislation at the federal level will result in an explosion in green jobs.As reported by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday, the nation's most populated state,…

MSNBC Execs Scramble to Defend Olbermann as 'Countdown' Ratings Declin

February 4th, 2010 10:56 AM
Keith Olbermann's appeal has generally been his incendiary, attack-dog approach to the news. The approach paid off during the Bush administration when bashing the president was good business for a television host. Since Obama's inauguration, Olbermann's ratings have been in free-fall, but MSNBC brass are still more than willing not only to keep him on the air, but to defend him against any and…

Media Continue to Falsely Accuse O'Keefe of Wiretapping

January 28th, 2010 1:07 PM
Some in the liberal media continue to insist that James O'Keefe and his three cohorts were trying to "bug" or "tap" Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines when law enforcement officials have clearly said that they were not. Since the left doesn't like O'Keefe, the liberal media seems to think standard practices of journalistic integrity don't apply here.According to MSNBC, one law enforcement official…

Editor: Ellie Light's Letter Was Good So We Didn't Verify Her Identity

January 26th, 2010 3:25 PM
The Sheboygan Press, which published Ellie Light's infamous letter on January 17, admitted Tuesday that its opinion editor failed to follow company protocol of confirming Light's identity. Joe Gulig, the paper's resident watchdog, claimed to have started the process by asking for information, but never followed through to see if the phone number was real. The paper admitted that the fiasco "…

N.Y. Times Wrote Up Four Immigration Protesters, All But Ignored Tens

January 25th, 2010 10:45 PM
As the new year began, The New York Times offered a 780-word article to a protest for illegal immigrants – with four marchers walking from Miami to Washington. But on Saturday, tens of thousands of Americans gathering in Washington for Friday's annual March for Life received – part of a sentence.In the Saturday paper on January 23, an article on the trial facing the killer of late-term…

Democrats Turn Letters to Editor into Talking Points Repository, Media

January 25th, 2010 2:09 PM
If Ellie Light is indeed a Democratic operative, she is only the proverbial tip of the party's astroturfing iceberg. Patterico's investigative work, which was also at the forefront of the blogosphere's efforts to expose Light, have revealed an even greater effort at manufacturing the appearance of public support for Democratic policies.Organizing for America and the Democratic Party each have…

Buried: Edwards Admission Hidden in Four out of Top Five U.S. Newspape

January 22nd, 2010 7:23 PM
If you're totally reliant upon print media, some of the major newspapers that is, you might not have noticed the news about former Democratic Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards' admission that he was indeed the father of his campaign mistress's daughter. That story couldn't so much as garner a single front-page story from any of the nation's top five major newspapers - USA…

Hollywood Turning Against ObamaCare

January 13th, 2010 12:20 PM
Alec Baldwin, award winning actor and wannabe leftist political commentator, called on Congress to sink congressional health care legislation today, saying he would rather the federal government "Put a Major Oil Company Out of Business," according to the headline of his column at the Huffington Post.Baldwin isn't the only liberal entertainer calling for the death of ObamaCare. Plans to tax so-…

LA Times Columnist Rainey Wonders How MSM 'Missed' Edwards Scandal Sto

January 13th, 2010 8:50 AM
Are you putting me on, Jim?Yeah, I'm talking to you, James Rainey, of the Los Angeles Times.It seems that the Times columnist just can't figure out how the MSM missed out on reporting the John Edwards scandal story despite the fact that the L.A. Times was Gound Zero for media refusal to report on this matter even after the National Enquirer broke an important aspect of the story in Rainey's own…