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[Guest post by DRJ] Ho, hum. Another day, another Daily Caller story about how Journolist members — including political operatives — worked to shape the news to fit the liberal narrative: “Journolist founder Ezra Klein, a staffer at the Washington Post, says he “tried to be very strict” in making sure no active political operatives joined Journolist. “It’s possible I missed someone,” he explained in an email. In fact, he did. Jeff Hauser wrote scores of posts on Journolist during the time he was managing the New Jersey congressional campaign of Democrat Dennis Shulman. …
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[Guest post by DRJ] The hottest story of the week was Shirley Sherrod. Alexander Marlow at BigGovernment looks at why Sherrod was silenced by the Sunday media shows. – DRJ
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[Guest post by DRJ] Via the Instapundit, can media hypocrisy get any better than this? “MORE FROM JOURNOLIST: Obama wins! And Journolisters rejoice. They seem to be planning for “epistemic closure.” *** And Eric Alterman adds his own incisive analysis: “Fucking Nascar retards…” Didn’t the “best and the brightest” used to be, I dunno, better and brighter? UPDATE: Reader Elliott Davis emails: “The best part about Eric Alterman’s participation in Journolist is his authorship of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News .” Heh. Indeed. You gotta love this. Thanks again, Ezra!” And it’s only Day 2 of the Journolist story. – DRJ
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[Guest post by DRJ] Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic , claims Cabalist is the new Journolist : “Shortly after the Weigel scandal, Klein, the Washington Post’s left-wing policy blogger, shut down Journolist, which was meant to be off-the-record, though why anyone thought a listserv with 400 members, many of whom were professional scribblers, would stay off the record is beyond me. But the idea behind Journolist — a forum in which like-minded opinion-makers could share information and ideas (much of the content of Journolist that I have seen consisted of eye-glazing wonkery) but also, on occasion, plot campaigns against Journolist’s ideological foes — would not die. Hence, the birth of the heretofore secret Cabalist, which unlike Journolist, has only 173 members, rather than 400, but which in …
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[Guest post by DRJ] As Patterico posted Monday, CNN’s Senior Editor for Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr mourned the death of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in a tweet: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Today she left CNN : “From Parisa Khosravi – SVP CNN International Newsgathering I had a conversation with Octavia this morning and I want to share with you that we have decided that she will be leaving the company. As you know, her tweet over the weekend created a wide reaction. As she has stated in …
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**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Whenever most reporters in the mainstream media claim to be unbiased and fair and balanced “journalists,” I laugh harder than I do when I’m watching Tom Brokaw read a sentence in which every word begins with the letter L. But every now and then one whips the mask off — either on purpose or by a slip of the tongue. In 2008, Tom Brokaw gave himself up completely and totally, bathing in the warm, healing waters of Hope & Change. Brokaw referred to Obama’s inauguration as a “velvet revolution” and made an equated The…
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[Guest post by DRJ] Dave Weigel has landed at MSNBC and his first gig was with Keith Olbermann: “Olbermann teased an announcement regarding Weigel throughout the program, and when he finally introduced his guest around 8:55pmET, he said, “We are very proud to announce is, as of like, I don’t know, 20 minutes ago, an MSNBC contributor. Welcome Dave…and you thought last week was fun, wait until you see what this week holds for you.” Weigel’s segment was about an interview he did with Rick Barber (the guy behind this ad ). Olbermann closed the interview by reiterating, “MSNBC contributor Dave Weigel, great thanks, as always, and good luck with this.” Clearly he is there to
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[Guest post by DRJ] Jim Treacher makes Dave Weigel’s life even more miserable. H/T Eric Blair. – DRJ
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[Guest post by DRJ] Sarah Palin is speaking tonight at the 50th Anniversary of California State University, Stanislaus. Here’s the first six paragraphs of the AP’s “neutral” coverage [emphasis supplied]: “ Sarah Palin breezed into a gala dinner at a cash-strapped California university Friday, poised to speak before hundreds of well-heeled donors as a throng of students protested her appearance nearby. The former Alaska governor’s headline speech at the 50th anniversary celebration at California State University, Stanislaus has generated intense intrigue and scrutiny since her visit was first announced and set off a pitched legal feud. In preparation for her arrival, workers transformed the rural, public school’s humble cafeteria into a glitzy Gala Hall , draped with crimson tablecloths and surrounded by chain-link fences. …
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[Guest post by DRJ] The Washington Post’s conservative watcher Dave Weigel has resigned following JournoList revelations that he disses conservatives : “FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo’s conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the scribe sent to JournoList, a listserv for liberal journalists. *** Seems Weigel doesn’t like (and that would be putting it mildly) at least some of the conservatives he covers. Poor Drudge – Weigel wants him to light himself on fire. Weigel’s Words: •”This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.” •”Follow-up to one hell of a day: Apparently, the Washington Examiner thought it would be fun to …
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This one is so ridiculous you just have to say “huhh?”
Campbell Brown has been a dismal failure on CNN and trails not only prime time leader Bill O’Reilly, but also Keith Olbermann and Nancy Grace. Olbermann averages less than a third of the viewers that O’Reilly brings in, but Brown is down around a sixth [...]
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[Guest post by DRJ] There are new problems at MSNBC : “A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel’s No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier. Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC “America the Angry,” and Mr. Olbermann was shown briefly in a series of clips of media bloviators during a segment that pondered what role the media plays in fomenting the public’s anger. The four people…
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[Guest post by DRJ] Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign chairman, will join Fox News as a contributor : “Joe Trippi, who served as campaign manager for Howard Dean’s unique bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, has signed on for a new ride: FOX News contributor. The Swamp has learned that the indefatigable Democrat will join the lineup of commentators on call for political analysis at the No. 1 cable news network. Trippi will help FOX ring in the new year, the Swamp hears, starting as an on-air contributor on Jan
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Yesterday, we covered Keith Olbermann’s nonsensical Monday night rant, where he lashed out at Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others. Not only did he go on about how there is no liberal media bias, but he also went on to say “comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.”
Another night and another [...]
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Under the heading of “does it get more ironic than this”, Keith Olbermann who was removed as the MSNBC co-anchor during the 2008 general election, because of the backlash over his and Chris Matthews partisan reporting, has now declared there is no media bias. It’s all conservative whining over nothing.
Newsbusters recaps Olbermann’s Monday evening rant:
On [...]
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If you spend much time watch network news, or listening to the democrats in Washington or the Hollywood elite, you would be led to believe that the debate is over on global warming. They claim that there is a consensus among the scientific community that not only is the earth warming, but it is primarily [...]
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While it will come as little surprise that ABC, CBS and NBC have given almost no coverage to Climategate – the bombshell emails and files leaked from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University.
This past weekend, the networks finally gave minimal coverage, after news agencies around the world reported on the ‘lack’ of reporting [...]
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Chris Matthews has never tried to hide his extreme liberal bias. He and his co-anchor were all but paid advertising for Obama during the Presidential campaign. Who can forget his comment about how he “felt this thrill going up his leg” as he watched one of candidate Obama’s speeches.
Matthews, an MSNBC news anchor, said about [...]
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While not a whopper in and of itself, the fact that the AP has dedicated 11 fact checkers to pour through Palin’s book and fact check it is quite amazing.
The AP not only didn’t devote the same resources to checking recent liberal books, but in fact did no fact checking for recent books by Ted [...]
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