Joe Conason sums it up perfectly: The polls that had showed Barack Obama well ahead of Clinton were not so much wrong as misleading — or at least badly interpreted by journalists too eager to write Clinton’s political obituary. In fact, the polls correctly measured Obama’s share of the vote. What happened during the contest’s […]
Crooks and Liars: How many journalists sent e-mails to White House officials’ [email protected] accounts? How many journalists currently covering the e-mail story did this? I wonder why no one has hinted to this yet. If there are actually no journalists, then you got to wonder why and if the people using these accounts thought about […]
After a day of updating the site, I finally had some time to catch up on the happenings of the day. One in particular really stuck out at me. The Associated Press has an article talking about Libby’s defense, which says: Three prominent journalists testified Monday that Bush administration officials volunteered leaks about a CIA […]
Reporters Without Borders has released their annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index and the United States has now fallen 53rd place: The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated […]
I was disturbed to notice a headline on a tabloid UK newspaper today stating something along the lines of “Terror alert, Is it time to search all muslims?” This is, in my view, they very sort of language that alienates folk from the muslim culture and causes some to fight back in anger. This made […]
So now the Vice-President has the authority to just leak out classified information at a time of war? Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose […]