The “smears” outlined in this reference come from Media Matters. It represents what they define to be some of the most egregious distortions of Fox News. The claims of bias appear to originate from a single news/commentary format called America’s Newsroom aired between 9am and 11am weekdays on Fox News. Before diving into the claims [...]
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Many on the left seem to have gotten their panties in a wad over Glenn Beck lately. The most recent gripe they have seems to be over Beck’s identification that Anita Dunn’s favorite philosopher is Mao Zedong (Tse-tung). [Continued...]
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The second quarter 2009 cable ratings show Fox News prime-time ratings jumping an unheard of 34%. The prime-time segment includes Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” During otherwise normal viewing hours, Fox News averages 1.2 million viewers on average, more than twice as many viewers as CNN which shows an average of 598,000 viewers. As for MSNBC [...]
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Founding Bloggers interviewed the CNN Reporter that was arguing with tea party-goers from before, and it’s a very good look at the bias that’s present in any given broadcast. Found this via Patterico. The CNN part of the video’s obviously been discussed to death, so I won’t go into that. Perhaps the more interesting point [...]
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Everywhere conservatives are screaming-they are now labeled “right-wing extremists” by Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security. They are proud of the label since they are opposed to the entire Obama administration, but they are scared at the same time-the “right wing extremist” document(s) probably prompted a large portion of the conservative base to [...]
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Ron Paul thinks it is possible and after a lot of reading the past 5+ years I agree with him.
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“When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle things are gone.” -C.S. Lewis A writer at the journal First Things gives an explanation in this article: “His point was that the time may come when the societal bonds are so ruptured that forceful confrontation will become necessary with those [...]
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Gasoline prices may hit the $1.00 mark soon. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oil prices hit four-year lows Friday as employers cut the highest number of jobs in 34 years. The continuing decline in prices is so dramatic and so sudden that it is raising the prospect that gas prices could soon fall below $1 a [...]
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I’ll return in full force within the next week, sorry about my unexcused absense the last week. I’ve had some things to attend to. In the mean time, our other writers will keep things entertaining.
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Masters of Context: Recent Shortcomings of Conservative Media
Many recent media driven stories, mostly from the conservative side, have been increasingly disturbing in their complete disregard for the context of the story. In fact it is more than disregard, we are now at the point of outright lying. The Drudge/Breitbart machine has mastered this process. Every day drudge spoon feeds links to readers [...]
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