Yes, printed newspapers are struggling these days, but it's their own fault: they're lousy.
Yes, printed newspapers are struggling these days, but it's their own fault: they're lousy.
“If you’re by yourself or you’re not from around here or you don’t know anybody around here, you’re a target. Automatically.”
(Yesterday, documents purporting to be confidential strategy memos from The Heartland Institute, a national think tank and major player in the controversy over claims of an impending anthropogenic global warming (now climate change) crisis, were published by The Huffington Post and throughout much of the progressive-left blogosphere. The following is Heartland's statement about the stolen and fraudulent documents.)Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from…
This is the title of a piece by Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. This is a very strange title to a piece that says the following: But with its future on the line, NPR’s decimated management has opted for quiet diplomacy rather than a full-throated defense of one of the few news operations that is actually expanding, reaching an impressive 27 million listeners a week. For some reason unknown to the rest of the world, NPR’s future is “on the line” because the 10 to 15% of…
A Federal Trade Commission Staff Discussion Draft (link opens a PDF document) was discussed by Glenn Beck during his radio show that aired June 1. The FTC released the document on Friday, May 28, just before a three day holiday weekend. The text below is reprinted directly from the FTC’s working document. It raises serious questions regarding government involvement in the media, including the federal agency exploring ways to “increase revenue to news organizations.” In May 2009, the Federal Trade Commission announced a project to…
AnnArbor.com reports Dicken Elementary School Principal Mike Madison sent black students on a special trip to hear from a black rocket engineer. Some thought America’s first black President would usher in a post racial era. Instead it seems to be doing the very opposite. An Ann Arbor elementary school principal used a letter home to parents tonight to defend a field trip for black students as part of his school’s efforts to close the achievement gap between white and black students. … Mike Madison wrote…
The Garden State has a shield law for journalists, meaning the government cannot force reporters or opinion writers to reveal their sources. There is nothing more vigorously defended among journalists than the right to keep secret one’s anonymous sources in service of “the public’s right to know.” The decades-long secret identity of “Deep Throat” in The Washington Post’s Watergate exposés is the standard of that journalistic principle. (And there is going to be reason to snicker at that example later. Be patient.) But a New Jersey state appellate…
Bill Whittle is a clever, erudite and indefatigable proponent ofliberty and limited government. His latest PJTV video, entitled “Support Your Local Tea Party: Vigilance & The Siren Song of the State,” is a must-see, especially if you’re on the fence about attending a Tax Day Tea Party near you. Whittle’s video and the political movement it endorses are incredibly important. At the 2 minute 30 second mark, however, note his list of fields “the enemies of freedom have … taken over.” “Things have gotten this…
Everyone who works in mainstream media (ok, almost everyone) believes that they are involved in a profession so pure that it believes it can sit in judgment on all that it surveys. What is it that gives these people the bone fides to think they can authoritatively intone upon our society’s many and varied workings? Objectivity. Like some Buddha upon a mountain who inhabits the rarified air that brings clarity not available to mere mortals, modern journalists are convinced they hold the keys to definitive…
By now you’ve probably heard that Britt Hume had the temerity, the unmitigated gall, made the unpardonable social faux pas to suggest that Tiger Words turn to Christianity to find “forgiveness and redemption.” How could he do such a thing? Doesn’t he know that the Christian faith belongs where it should always have been, in the closet? Quiet, minding its own business? Of course this is only controversial to our precious, leftist media elites. I’m sure even some of those same elites that come down…
An HBO documentary lauds the arrogant, smugly antagonistic journalist Helen Thomas, longtime lady dean of the White House press corps.
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