Drudge is pushing a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, also being published by PBS: The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive […]
I guess the first amendment is null and void: A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man who said he was from the Department of Homeland Security, according to ProPublica, a non-profit news organization in the U.S. The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, […]
BP has begun the “top kill” process of pumping drilling mud into the blow out preventer 5,000 feet below the sea. BP is saying this has a 60-70% chance of working, while President Obama is cautioning that there are no guarantees. At this stage of the game, I am not optimistic at all. So much […]
No – not for President, but I am supporting him in this: Talking Points Memo’s Greg Sargent is reporting today that the Romney campaign has fired a broadside at Fox News, which issued a directive in the wake of John McCain’s “Woodstock ad” forbidding the use of their footage for campaign advertisements. Yes candidates should […]
Had to come from John Edwards. It was when Hilary and Obama was asked about people not wanting a woman or black for President. Edwards said “if someone won’t vote for Hilary because she is a woman, or Obama because he is black then I don’t want their vote”. I am a big Edwards fan, […]
Republicans HATE Jon Stewart. They feel like he is some liberal God, so they always attack his show saying the viewers are “uneducated” or “not informed”. I have heard this same old line on FOX time and time again. Well let’s look at the numbers in a new poll that has just been released by […]
Bush wastes money on all kinds of shit so in order to combat that, the Republicans need to go after PBS and NPR again: House Republicans yesterday revived their efforts to slash funding for public broadcasting, as a key committee approved a $115 million reduction in the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that […]
Now wouldn’t this be interesting: Today Dubai Ports World announced it would “transfer fully the U.S. operations…to a United States entity.” This evening on the PBS News Hour, AEI scholar Norm Ornstein said that DP World was considering selling its U.S. operations to Halliburton: Hat tip to ThinkProgress for this.
That is the amount Bush is wanting to cut from PBS. I guess he is pissed his cronie isn’t in charge there anymore.
It looks like Tomlinson got out of the CPB just in time. This from today’s LA Times WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting repeatedly violated the organization’s contracting rules and code of ethics in his efforts to promote conservatives in the system, according to an internal investigation released today. The […]