Dear MSNBC

May 2, 2010

It is proper to address a married lady as Mrs., not Ms. If the article about Laura Bush’s new book had been original work, maybe it could be written off as ignorance of propriety. However, since it was a reprint of a New York Times article that used the proper title, the only assumption one can reach is that you edited it out of disrespect for the Bush family.


Quote of the Day – Contradictory Edition

June 22, 2009

Look, sport, I know you’re doing your best to slip Barry some tongue here, but it strains the credulousness of even the simplest among us when you say things like “the recession is easing” and “but you’re all broke, out of work, and prices are rising” in the same breath. This must be some new definition of the word “easing” that I’m not familiar with. – Tam


Quote of the Day – Bad Guys Edition

May 7, 2009

I guess you only get to hear about it when the bad guys win. Makes you wonder just who the newsies were cheering for when they played cops-and-robbers as kids… – Tam


Quote of the Day – Too Much Trouble Edition

May 4, 2009

Is it too much to ask that editorial writers spend five minutes researching an issue before blathering away about it in print?

That last question is rhetorical since it obviously is too much trouble. - Jeff Soyer


Quote of the Day – Adoring Edition

March 22, 2009

First was his cult of personality, cheered on by a media so adoring, it should have gotten a room. – Day by Day


Where’s the Outrage?

February 2, 2009

From Breda:

“Barack Obama doesn’t care about white people

She’s referring to the silence and inaction from the .fed about the ice storms in Kentucky that have killed dozens, and left hundreds of thousands without power in freezing weather.

Consider this:

 

Katrina

President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.

President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims. Obama visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region. He worked with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to introduce legislation to address the immediate income, employment, business, and housing needs of Gulf Coast communities.

President Barack Obama will partner with the people of the Gulf Coast to rebuild now, stronger than ever.

 

Copied directly from whitehouse.gov, Obama rails on Bush’s “unconscionable ineptitude” while hundreds of thousands of Americans are suffering without power. Where is the outrage? Can you imagine if John McCain had eaten hundred dollar steaks in the middle of “worst financial crisis since the Great Depression” and this was happening? The media outrage would be deafening. 

But because it’s a bunch of people in an less fashionable part of the country, and it’s the Obamasiah, not the reviled Bush ignoring it, there is no outrage. There is barely reporting of it. We don’t have Mike Meyers and Kanye West on the tube talking about how Obama doesn’t care about white people. 

More empty rhetoric from Obama, more quiet complacency from the media.


More MSM Bias

February 2, 2009

I already mentioned FOX falling in with the media SOP of downplaying the party if a Democrat is involved in a scandal, but now we have this:

Link – “Israel Bombs Gaza

Story – Hamas attacks Israel, Israel fires back.

Headlines are one of the ways media bias shows up. Reading the front page link, you get the impression that Israel attacked Hamas, not the other way around. Maybe if you know the politics of the region, you could infer that most likely Hamas started it, but certainly not from the headline. “Israel retaliates for rockets” “Israel retaliates with bombs” “Clash in Gaza” or a hundred other headlines would be more honest about what actually happened.

Is this a big deal? The story set it straight, so what’s the harm? Bigger than you might think, considering the number of people that just read headlines, and are met with a constant barrage of Israel attacking Hamas, and whatever other things the headlines warp.

I am not saying that Fox is not being enough of a Republican shill, I would really prefer that the media just report the news, and not be a shill for anyone. But let’s stop claiming that they are.


A good point

January 22, 2009

From JJ in the comments:

why is it you can not find which party the offender belongs to when a democrat is involved

It’s funny, because a couple months back I saw a story about the trouble that the son of some politician or another, and I automatically assumed (correctly) that since the party wasn’t mentioned in the beginning of the story that the guy was a Democrat. What’s worse is that this was on the allegedly Republican shill Fox News. Although maybe they are Republican shills, because somewhere in the story it did mention the party.


Quote of the Day – Looting Edition

December 22, 2008

Write the truth as best you can? Bring a sense of order to chaotic events? Quietly and humbly perform a service for your community? No way baby; we’re looking for heads to hang on the wall. Journalism morphed into a blood sport, and while the great hunters were out stalking their prey, the locals with webcams, and internet connections were back looting the camp. – Mike


Quote of the Day – Military Style Edition

December 21, 2008

Terms such as “military-style” just seem to be the all purpose term to demonize gun related items, and the media repeats these claims just as they are willing to call so many guns assault weapons. – John Lott


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