8.13.10 – Amanpour's 'This Week' receives negative reviews; viewers express desire for Tapper's return. After manning the helm of ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday for the second time since her August 1 debut, longtime foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour continues to receive decidedly negative reviews.
8.12.10 – Free Press, the public face of the net neutrality movement, is a moral see-saw when it comes to transparency. The think tank and lobbying group has publicly slammed the FCC for meeting behind closed doors with net neutrality opponents like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T, and has called the FCC’s transparency pledge “lip service” to the concept of open government
8.11.10 – This is a cautionary tale about reporters eagerly attacking other reporters working a developing story. Because it’s not possible to provide evidence as quickly as some might demand it doesn’t mean the story is false.
8.11.10 – Google knows what you watch, what you search, and even with whom you're friends. The availability of all this information raises an important question: Where does Google CEO Eric Schmidt stand on the issue of online privacy?
8.10.10 – I have written here several times recently about the all too visible partisanship of the Washington Post, but Karen Tumulty’s lead article on Sunday (August 8), “In Va.’s 5th, incumbent Democrat Tom Perriello sees voter frustration firsthand,” takes the cake. Or perhaps it’s simply that as a resident and voter in Virginia’s 5th District I can see her slant more clearly and hence resent it more.
8.9.10 – Reporters may think they’re being objective and balanced when they first report and then write a story, but those of us who know the racket can spot a rigged stuss game every time. It’s not just a matter of what you put in and what you leave out, whom you talk to and whom you don’t bother to ask for comment.
8.6.10 – Columbia University President Lee Bollinger has come out in favor of a fascist press system. It goes without saying that Mr. Bollinger wouldn’t describe it that way, but that would be the end result of adopting his suggestion to Federally subsidize and supplement the press.
8.3.10 – Among the individuals who were part of the controversial JournoList e-mail group were activists who served on an editorial board alongside Weather Underground terror group founders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, WND has learned. Also tied to Marxist-founded group seeking government-run Internet
8.4.10 – Jeff Jacoby – LATE IN JULY, a Hollywood honcho uncorks a blast of anti-Semitic bile, the sort of malignant stereotype about Jews one might expect from David Duke or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Is that newsworthy?
8.3.10 – LOS ANGELES (AP) – Andrew Breitbart strips off his blazer, windmills it over his head and lets it fly to the stage with a matador’s flourish. He booms into a microphone, sneering, taunting. Breath sprints to keep up with words.
8.3.10 – Dan Riehl – It’s unfair to analyze Spencer Ackerman, arguably the most immature and ugly contributor to the now infamous JournoList, through the hyperbolic battlefield exchanges of prosaic political warfare that exist between pundits of the Left and Right on the Internet. But there is ample reason to view him as one of, if not, the worst of the offenders.
8.3.10 – Look what goes on behind scenes when reporters back their favorite. In little-noticed comments, a member of the controversial JournoList e-mail group first publicly exposed in 2008 that news media reporters "threw their support" to Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate.
8.2.10 – Jon Meacham will announce his departure as editor of Newsweek magazine Monday, at the same time that The Washington Post Co. declares Sidney Harman, a wealthy industrialist and the husband of Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), the winner of a bidding war for the 77-year-old newsweekly, according to sources inside the company.
8.2.10 – Only someone at the New York Times would claim that their paper was not “anywhere close” to Fox News on bias. What was surprising was the source of this trashing. Clark Hoyt, the just retired ombudsman of the New York Times,
8.1.10 – Julia Baird, who hails from Oz, probably wouldn’t dare write this in Newsweek, where she’s currently (but for how long?) gainfully employed as a deputy editor. But she feels perfectly free to unload on the land that gives her sustenance in the pages of The Age, one of the leading Australian newspapers.
6.31.10 – Yes, thank you Ezra, for finally realizing that you were embarrassing yourself with these complaints as those of us watching this story wondered why you didn’t just go ahead and prove the Daily Caller a liar with a fully contextual response of your own, using that unique WaPo perch combined with the magic of the Internet and your very own personal copy of the full JournoList archives.
7.30.10 – Chris Matthews strayed from the liberal talking points today. But don’t worry, it only happened for a little while. Two hours, in fact, before he was back to his old self, lashing out irrationally at conservatives. We’re not sure where Matthews’ original bout of intellectual honesty came from, but we’re pretty sure that some sort of JournoListy Intervention occurred to get him back on message.
This Sunday, former CNN war correspondent and television host Christiane Amanpour will take over as host of ABC’s venerable public affairs show “This Week.” Her selection for the post, however, has caused a surprisingly potent backlash.
The media chitchat these days is of the media itself, and of, Lordy, how’d things ever get this way! You know what way I mean—the way it is now, with right-wing extremists (centered on Fox News and the Breitbart blogs) injecting lies and fables into the national bloodstream and the mainstream guys going tamely along with it.
JournoList, Shame of a Nation: Today’s ‘Reporters’ Are Liberals First, Journalists Second. I imagine that the journalism profession has always attracted more than its fair share of people who are left of center. So in a way, the Journolist does not come as any great surprise. But what does stand out about it is the glaring in-your-face nature of the whole thing.
7.29.10 – Take the e-mails that the Daily Caller obtained from the now-defunct lefty Web service Journolist. Never mind the personal or psychological implications of a radio producer who lovingly imagines Rush Limbaugh’s death or a law professor who doesn’t know that the FCC has no power to deprive Fox News of a license
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