Media Scandals
Following CNN's Lead, BBC Uses Questionable Sources for Story
October 26th, 2006 12:24 PM
Terrorists in Iraq know they can rely on CNN to carry their propaganda as if it were straight news, now the Taliban is having success in placing "news" with the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation. The homepage blurb makes it sound, well, official [emphasis added]:'Civilians killed' in Nato raids Scores of civilians have been killed in Nato raids against the Taleban in southern…
NYT’s Ombudsman Says Times Shouldn’t Have Published Bank Surveilla
October 22nd, 2006 3:55 PM
This is a truly shocking revelation by the New York Times ombudsman Byrone Calame (hat tip to Michelle Malkin). In a column published Sunday, Calame – the Times' “public editor” – has reversed a previous position of his concerning the Times June 23 article about secret international banking surveillance designed to uncover the sources of terrorist funding. Now, Calame thinks it was a mistake for…
ABC Explanation For Name Leak Doesn't Add Up
October 5th, 2006 2:02 PM
ABC News has just released this statement explaining how blogger Wild Bill of Passionate America was able to learn the real screen name of Mark Foley's Instant Message correspondent:On Friday, ABC News published instant messages between a former page and Congressman Foley with the IM screen name of the teenage victim redacted. Immediately, we discovered that in one instance, the screen name of…
Law Professor Advocates NYT Indictment for Violating Espionage Act
September 29th, 2006 11:02 AM
This one’s really good, folks. Writing in Friday’s FrontPage Magazine, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn Law School Henry Mark Holzer made the case for why the New York Times should be indicted for violating the Espionage Act (hat tip to American Thinker):It is an article of faith on the Left and among its fellow travelers that the Bush administration stole two elections, made war on Iraq for venal…
Bill Maher Apologizes For Claiming CBS Denied Him ‘Free Speech
September 19th, 2006 10:25 AM
Well sports fans, the plot is getting so thick you can drive a truck over it. TV Newser is reporting that Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time” who went on quite a rant Friday night about being denied his free speech rights by CBS, might be mistaken. According to the New York Daily News (emphasis mine): “‘If I or my representatives got it wrong about how the 'Free Speech' segment of the 'CBS…