Maybe the news channels will wake up and realize what they are doing isn’t working: After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall. According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 […]
So we get an airplane and helicopter collide (other reports is that it was two airplanes) and crash today in Sharonville, Ohio – a subdivision just north of Cincinnati. The local news is taking eyewitness callers, and Channel 5 gets a doozy: Out of the numerous callers I have listened to, this is the only person that […]
This is very sick: A blogger is vowing to reveal the identity of one of the boys Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) communicated with, RAW STORY has learned. William Kerr of Passionate America has pledged to divulge the information at 4 pm Central Time today, October 4. He also plans on discussing the boy’s identity on […]
ABC earlier posted a memo that was supposedly leaked from someone in the White House. They did this on their political page “The Note” Maybe leaks are going to be more common in the Tony Snow Era. The man has not even started officially yet as White House press secretary, and already the tightness of […]
Ah views are changing in Washington when it comes to Iraq. This is pointed out in this article by Reuters: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday there has always been a risk Iraq could slip into a civil war but he accused the news media of exaggerating the severity of the current situation. “I […]
There are still a few on the right (mainly in the administration) who would want to make you think that Iraq has calmed down and is going well again. Well this sure doesn’t have that same song and dance: Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s bombing of a Shiite shrine have […]
So I wake up, do my morning check of news media and blogs. I come to one of my favorite sites, Think Progress, and see a quote from Rep. Bill Young which appears in today’s Washington Post: Young said he wouldn’t be so mad if it were just Sheehan. “I totally disagree with everything she […]
You may have read about the letter sent to the Washington Post from the Joint Chiefs in response to a cartoon. If not then head over to AMERICABlog for the details. I am not in total agreement on this issue. I believe in the freedom of speech and that the Joint Chiefs should also be […]
Earlier this week reports broke in the U.K. the Tony Blair had to talk Bush out of bombing al Jazeera. Since then the British Media has been gagged by Downing Street from reporting further on the memo. Channel 4 news in London has reported that the gag order came from pressure by the White House. […]
Judy Miller finally released her account today of her ordeal surrounding the Valerie Plame leak (full New York Times articlehere). I have not read the entire article in full, but have read an interesting diagnosis into it done by Editor and Publisher magazine. For the first time this clearly, Miller, in today’s article, admits, “WMD–I […]