media failure

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• Bias 101

  
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  Photo caption in the Washington Post:Rep. Larry Kissell (D-N.C.) voted against health-care reform even though it is badly needed in the largely rural district he represents.(Via Hot Air.)
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• MUST WATCH: Olbermanns Case Against Incitement of Violence by OReilly, Beck, Goldberg, et al

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Sue, Bill, sue! Enough is enough! Go get em!... ( Hat-tip @Frank_Schaeffer )
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• CNN can’t read

  
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  CNN seems to have flunked reading comprehension:An al Qaeda spokesman Saturday appeared to be trying to improve the group’s image in the region with a new audio message in English. . .“We express our condolences to the families of the Muslim men, women and children killed in these criminal acts and we ask Allah to ...
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• AP: Exhaustive Review of Stolen Climate Email Finds No Evidence of Falsification, Fabrication

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  From AP today : E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages dont support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP ... dont undercut the ...
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• Sarah Palin, Washington Post op-ed, Fred Hiatt. Need I say more?

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 506
  Sigh… Ambinder: Palin’s “Boycott Copenhagen” Op-Ed: Annotated The AtlanticWire: Washington Post Gets Burned for Publishing Palin’s Op-Ed Ben Smith: Palin’s climate change CapitalClimate: Pathetic Post Pimps Palin Propaganda Climate Progress: The Washington Post goes tabloid, publishes ...
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• Fox Falsifies Global Warming Poll Data

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Notice anything wrong with these Fox "News" reported poll numbers? Thats right, according to Fox, 120 percent of Americans have an opinion on global warming issues in the wake of stolen emails from climate scientists, and 94 percent of them believe its at least "somewhat likely" that those scientists ...
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• Beyond Afghanistan

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest essay by Ernest A. Canning "Somehow this madness must cease." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" April 4, 1967. On Jan. 18, 2010 our nation will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day , commemorating the extraordinary life of an intellectual and moral giant. The corporate media will fill ...
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• The emerging scientific consensus on the SwiftHack emails: get real, denialists

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 506
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I: IPCC WGI firmly stands behind its unique procedures and behind the scientific community and their collective work which has been, and continues to be, the basis of unbiased, open and transparent assessments of the current knowledge on the climate system and ...
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• Hypocrisy

  
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  When the climate scandal broke, the New York Times decided not to publish the leaked emails and documents, making the risible argument:The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted ...
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• Secret Service: no more threats than usual

  
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  The director of the Secret Service debunks another of the left’s talking points:U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan dismissed published reports that the level of death threats against President Obama are four times greater than typical threat levels against recent presidents — claiming the current volume of ...
  2 weeks ago

• SwiftHack meme watch: National Review edition

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 506
  Following up on the very ARTIFICAL outrage post. From the preeminent conservative media outlet the National Review, we’ve got a lovely demonstration of exactly what I was talking about. As I wrote (all following emphaeses mine): The code in question appears to “test the sensitivity of certain calculations ...
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• From the “Al Gore is fat and lives in a house” department

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 506
  Your daily dose of tu quoque: Attending the Copenhagen negotiations will create greenhouse emissions. At least the media believes in recycling …
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• My Article at Right-Leaning Gouverneur Times on NY-23s Special Election E-Voting Mess...

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Ive covered the problems and failures in NY-23s recent Special Election for U.S. House in a number of previous articles here at The BRAD BLOG , detailing some of the early problems with results as they emerged, pointing out that, thanks to Republican precedent in 2006, it now no longer really matters whom the ...
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• Frank Schaeffers Narrative of the Loons: Our Own Far Right vs. the Islamic Extremists

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest blogged by Frank Schaeffer Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedmans editorial in todays New York Times , "America vs. The Narrative" , sparked this thought: If the Islamic world has a fantasy "narrative" about America and our intentions, dont we ourselves --- those within the American religious right --- have a ...
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• Decision-making, dithering, and sitting on desks

  
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  Last month, Robert Gibbs fired back at Dick Cheney’s (inarguable) accusation that President Obama is dithering about Afghanistan, saying:The vice president was for seven years not focused on Afghanistan. Even more curious given the fact that an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House, including the vice ...
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• AP misstates Polanski plea bargain

  
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  As part of an AP article about Roman Polanski’s effort to be released on bail (seriously!), they write:Polanski pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the remaining charges and sentence him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation.This is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hypocrisy

  
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  Oh geez, the New York Times has this to say about the Hadley hack:The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.If the documents were illegally leaked CIA documents containing ...
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• Deep Tweet

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Remember when the wingnuts were so concerned (and therefore, naturally, the media were as well ) about Barack Obama becoming "overexposed"? Why no such concern about that happening to Sarah Palin ? I guess they just care about Obama more than her.
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• How stupid is Media Matters?

  
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  Last September, Media Matters wrote:On September 23, Los Angeles Times media critic James Rainey reported that ACORN official Lavelle Stewart “told me this week” that when conservative videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles came to Stewart’s ACORN office in Los Angeles disguised as a pimp and ...
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• Fox News: Oops, We Did It Got Caught Again...

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Just last week Sean Hannity of Fox "News" was forced to offer an apology of sorts for "inadvertently" using falsified footage to make a recent tea bagger protest look larger than it was. The admission came only after Comedy Centrals The Daily Show called Fox out for scam. Though Hannity suggested he was sorry for ...
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