Mainstream Media
It’s interesting that this AP article by Sarah Brumfield withholds until the last quarter the information that James Lee actually wanted more extreme environmentalist programming on the Discovery Channel: A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his…
The matter still comes up from time to time, in the comments sections, so it’s worth noting that the New York Times has finally (quietly) admitted the truth about the core example of that supposed Tea Party racism: The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example…
Having chided Mark Patinkin for his colum lampooning Republicans (poorly), I think it only fair to note that he’s offered an attempt at some fair-play turnabout. It would be fascinating, I think, for a literature class to devote some discussion time to the differences in sentence structure and related attributes as a means of discerning…
Here’s an interesting observation. The Providence Journal‘s story about Rhode Island’s decreasing unemployment rate may have been headlined “State’s jobless rate declines to 12 percent,” but the lead reads, “The figure is counteracted, however, by decline in size of labor force,” and Andy Smith sets the tone of the article at the very beginning: On…
If you get your news from a mainstream media source, you might not have heard — as Dan Gifford notes — about the apparent likelihood that Senator Al Franken (D., MN) was elected based on the illegal votes of felons: A conservative watchdog group Minnesota Majority has gone through voting records reportedly finding that at…
Nobody wants to argue against assisting people who are striving to improve their lives during hard times, but when journalists leverage the public trust for naked advocacy, they do readers a grave disservice. Providence Journal reporter Steve Peoples did just that in a front page story on expiring social services programs, last Saturday, and the…
The national press loves the independent candidate and USA Today (h/t Ian Donnis) is the latest to report about them in this year of the disgruntled voter. RI’s own Lincoln Chafee plays prominently in the story and all of the classic Chafee themes are there. First, there’s the typical RI attitude towards “name candidates” like…
Ian Donnis points to the ProJo editorial pushing for an override of the Governor’s veto of the most recent Casino ballot question and reminds us that, not so long ago, the ProJo was decidedly anti-casino. Ian puts the change in the ProJo’s stance towards gambling at around 2006 and some digging in the AR archives…
Strolling amidst the crowd of the latest Tea Party, Ed Fitzpatrick reflected as follows: I’ve got to believe the health-care law is going to do more good than the Iraq war, and I wondered if Tea Party members were concerned that the cost of the war had reached $717.5 billion as of Thursday, according to…
Odds are that Philip Marcelo doesn’t recognize how much he’s bowed to the left-wing common wisdom of the American newsroom, as indicated by this paragraph in his profile of Colleen Conley: Still, for many detractors, it is telling that the national Tea Party movement began not in the eight years of enormous federal spending during…