Year: 2006

That Must Be Why Geraldo Rivera Cried on the Air

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In letters to Editor and Publisher, writers who seem suspiciously like paid journalists complain that the false "miners are rescued story" is not the news media's fault. The Governor made them do it. That must be why Geraldo Rivera appeared ...
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Washington Post: “The Mistake Was Not Ours” (And Other Excuses from the Press)

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Here's a story from Editor and Publisher in which some editors apologize for false coverage of the miner story, while others defend their inaccurate reporting. Notice in these snippets (the E&P article has more) that the "prestige newspapers" seem less ...
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Limbaugh Echo Chamber: The Media Reports What They Want to Happen

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Rush Limbaugh was really on a roll today, talking about the news media's accuracy level. It's better heard than read (go here for transcript, here for audio/video archives) as Rush tends to be, but worth it either way. A tiny ...
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What, We Apologize?

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Just for fun, I put the words "apologize" and "miner" in Google News to see if any news outlets had run the phrase "we apologize for falsely reporting the miners were rescued alive," or something similar. One hit. Admittedly, Google ...
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Political Developments in Israel

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Joel Rosenberg's blog is one to follow for analysis of political events in Israel following the incapacitation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Joel, an old friend, is writing temporarily from Egypt. He is a New York Times best-selling novelist now, ...
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Congressional Black Caucus Katrina Relief Funds Remain Undisbursed

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Mychal Massie hopes folks will join A. M. Siriano in sending letters to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, asking the Caucus to distribute the reported estimated $400,000 it received in donations to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Marc Morano of ...
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It Grows

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Michelle Malkin's War on Blogs was a good read in December, but read it again while thinking about the fact that the mainstream press told all of us the West Virginia miners were safely rescued yesterday. If the mainstream press ...
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Environmentalists v. Alito

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Peyton Knight recommends a piece by law professor Jonathan Adler, who shows that environmental groups are bending over backwards to find ways to attack Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito ...
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What Does A “Reputable Scientist” Do Instead?

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A Time story by Michael Lemonick about Woo Suk Hwang's apparently-fraudulent stem cell research, The Rise and Fall of the Cloning King, contains this paragraph: In order to clone an adult, you need to put one of its cells into ...
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Smoking Saves Government Money

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I enjoyed this new George Will column about tobacco lawsuit abuse, perhaps because I made some of the same points myself, back in 1999: ...the government does not lose money from smoking; it profits from it. ...because smokers have an ...
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