Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 30th, 2008
It is horribly unfair that Obama will still be judged by his affiliation with Rev. Wright. It is also understandable that people will have questions about that affiliation. He did his best to lay the issue to rest yesterday, but God only knows how successful he was.
In a nation where many people still believe […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 28th, 2008
Molly Ivors lets MoDo have it.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 27th, 2008
Elizabeth Edwards critiques press coverage of the primary in today’s Times:
I’m not the only one who noticed this shallow news coverage. A report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy found that during the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, 63 percent of […]
Bob Somerby on Keith Olbermann (scroll down).
Posted in General, Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 25th, 2008
There are many media people suddenly saying Obama can’t win the general - but based on what, exactly? The ponies they’ve suddenly pulled out of their asses? Boy, what a fickle bunch.
See how suddenly they turned on him? The thing that’s disgusting about the media is how firmly they believe their own bullshit. I […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 25th, 2008
Obama to appear on Fox with Chris Wallace this Sunday. And no, I don’t see that as a sellout - even though people used Clinton’s editorial-board appearance at Scaife’s paper to attack her, and point out that Obama refused to appear on Fox.
Running for office is a tough business, you do what you have to […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 24th, 2008
Via Kevin Drum:
David Broder says John McCain “is the rare exception who is not assumed to be willing to sacrifice personal credibility to prevail in any contest.” Bob Somerby is pissed:
The Dean doesn’t tell us who assumes this — nor does he say if their assumption is warranted. And this is odd, because let’s be […]
Posted in Media on Apr 23rd, 2008
Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report. Go read it all:
The 41 signers of an open letter denouncing ABC’s farcical conduct during the most recent presidential debate may have thought they were doing the right thing - but they managed to send the wrong message. Although there is no doubt that George Stephanopoulos and Charles […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 22nd, 2008
Yeah, because the New York Times has such a stellar track record of speaking truth to power, I should listen to them. Right.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 20th, 2008
I’d say this is newsworthy, wouldn’t you?
PHILADELPHIA — Could it be the “vast right wing conspiracy” is having second thoughts? Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.
It was […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 20th, 2008
From Jim VandeHei, John F. Harris in the Politico (via Lambert). Like Lambert, I’m a little astounded that they’re raising these relevant issues (go read the whole thing):
If Obama was covered like Clinton is, one feels certain the media focus would not have been on the questions, but on a candidate performance that at times […]
Posted in Media on Apr 20th, 2008
If there’s one thing you have to say about Helen Thomas, she’s consistent. She doesn’t see why Obama should be the Democratic nominee (and she doesn’t like bloggers):
“We’re in the midst of a presidential campaign which is really getting rotten - down and dirty between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama,” Thomas said. “The Democratic candidates […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2008
I do think many of the Obama supporters who are furious at ABC are rather recent converts to the cause of media criticism - but only because this time, it was their guy taking the shots. I think I’ve been pretty consistent on pointing out that the media is the real enemy, and we can’t […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 17th, 2008
The more I think about last night’s debate, the more disgusted I get. The Bill Ayers-Weather Underground question was just despicable, and Obama’s answer was appropriate - as in, WTF? Now I’m responsible for anyone I ever came into contact with?
Who the hell wrote those questions, anyway - Rush Limbaugh?
Oh well. It’s not as if […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 17th, 2008
Editor & Publisher:
Clinton-Obama Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans Are Gaffes, Flag Pins and ’60s Radicals
Remember, the media is the enemy.
Oh, and read Will Bunch. (But never his commenters.)
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 16th, 2008
Here. For the West Coasters…
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 16th, 2008
What Marcy said.
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 16th, 2008
Michael Tomasky says the blogger who reported Obama’s comments at the San Francisco fundraiser shouldn’t have reported them - because she made a donation.
I’ll have some thoughts later, but in the meantime, have at it.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 15th, 2008
Via Duncan: Coffee and doughnuts? With sprinkles???
They really have no shame at all.
Posted in Full Frontal Feminism, Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 15th, 2008
David Corn, who’s already made it quite clear that he’s invested in an Obama win, is still trying to say Clinton had no significant role in the Northern Ireland peace process. You can read this if your memory needs refreshing.
I mean, really, David. David Trimble, the hateful Ulster Unionist? Quotes from the notoriously right-wing Telegraph, […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 14th, 2008
Omigod, how funny is this? I finally took a look at the rest of that ARG survey and guess what it says?
23% of likely Democratic primary voters say that excessive exposure to Obama’s advertising is causing them to support Clinton.
I can’t tell you how heavily the Obama ads have supersaturated the local airwaves. You […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 14th, 2008
But no cigar.
Posted in Media, War Crimes on Apr 12th, 2008
Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps?
Posted in Full Frontal Feminism, Media on Apr 12th, 2008
What do you think about this? Obviously, I’m not the best judge because I’m not shy about these things:
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 11th, 2008
While it’s pretty clear that I don’t especially like or trust Obama, this is the sort of media shark attack that all Democrats need to fight. This quote from the Huffington Post was all over cable news today:
[…] when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser […]
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