Mainstream Media
This announcement comes after the fact, but I wanted to mention that Andrew was interviewed for the 6:00 news on WJAR NBC 10 regarding the latest anti-Laffey attack ad. The report was replete with a screen shot of this very page, and stands as evidence that Anchor Rising is beginning to have exactly the effect…
My latest column, “Speaking Past an Oppressive Template,” remarks on the difficulty — in motivation and in practice — of being “well informed,” and the accompanying difficulty of communicating.
Here is an interesting story on a San Franscisco anti-war march, where the local MSM’s photo and article most certainly did not convey the whole story. In the past, the MSM could push their political agenda and get away with it. Now, thanks to bloggers, more complete and accurate news is getting out to American…
In “Katrina and the Media’s Demand for Racial Division,” I note that Hurricane Katrina seems to have undone some of the good that came from the evil of September 11 by rejuvenating racial divisiveness as a focus of conversation. Depressing. Sickening. Discouraging. And yet there’s hope if only we can find the patience to let…
I’m not picking sides, but a short Providence Journal bulletin by Scott MacKay turns an on-air spat between two talk radio hosts into a lesson in the methodology of media bias: WPRO talk-show host Dan Yorke and John DePetro, a former Rhode Island talk-radio host, got into an on-air spat yesterday after DePetro showed up…
I understand that Jerry Landay, “a former CBS News correspondent,” is part of the mainstream media club, and I continue to think the Providence Journal’s editorial page admirably broad in what it publishes. Still, I’m a bit surprised that the page would publish this rant from Landay: Few of the “hath littles” are aware of…
Power Line has a commentary on an interview given by Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett to the People’s Daily Online, a Communist China publication. The interview’s headline quote by Bennett is: I don’t think US should be the leader of the world. Bennett also offers up the following thought: Democracy means many things. How…
Peggy Noonan’s latest editorial discusses the world of blogging. She makes the following general comments: The bloggers have…freedom. They have the still pent-up energy of a liberated citizenry, too. The MSM [main stream media] doesn’t. It has lost its old monopoly on information. It is angry. But MSM criticism of the blogosphere misses the point,…
If you’re interested, over at Spinning Clio I’ve posted on how a piece of historical “fact” has been misused to support the oft-used “the-Founders-weren’t-religious” argument. (Fair warning: it deals with treaty language.)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. Marine Corps general who said it was “fun to shoot some people” should have chosen his words more carefully but will not be disciplined, military officials said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and is slated to be portrayed by star actor…
