Associated website: Olbermann Watch
Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Keith Olbermann Show Needs "Whacked-Checker" (click image to enlarge)
Associated website: Olbermann Watch
Saturday, June 26, 2010
"Just Because I Serial Kill Republicans Doesn't Mean I Can't Report Objectively on Politics"
by Richard Pollender, Inmate No. 2071-12Recently I was pressured to resign my reporter position at the Washington Post after police discovered the heads of several Republican and Tea Party members in a private oversized freezer in my own home. That outrageous assault on my professional integrity, as well as my lifetime imprisonment, is an outrageous assault on the freedom of the press, as my own personal hobbies and preferences don't have any impact on my ability to objectively report on politics.
What I do with the severed heads of my victims is my own business and has no effect whatsoever on the living Republican and Tea Party vermin who continue to roam freely throughout society. Indeed, as an avid collector of Republican and Tea Party appendages who has avoided arrest for almost a decade, I submit I bring a keener eye to the conservative movement.
My reporting stands for itself. My hand-sewn lampshades made of Republican flesh is an entirely separate body of work.
Associated article: Daily Caller
"Just Because I Serial Kill Republicans Doesn't Mean I Can't Report Objectively on Politics"
by Richard Pollender, Inmate No. 2071-12Recently I was pressured to resign my reporter position at the Washington Post after police discovered the heads of several Republican and Tea Party members in a private oversized freezer in my own home. That outrageous assault on my professional integrity, as well as my lifetime imprisonment, is an outrageous assault on the freedom of the press, as my own personal hobbies and preferences don't have any impact on my ability to objectively report on politics.
What I do with the severed heads of my victims is my own business and has no effect whatsoever on the living Republican and Tea Party vermin who continue to roam freely throughout society. Indeed, as an avid collector of Republican and Tea Party appendages who has avoided arrest for almost a decade, I submit I bring a keener eye to the conservative movement.
My reporting stands for itself. My hand-sewn lampshades made of Republican flesh is an entirely separate body of work.
Associated article: Daily Caller
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Justice Department Presses Times Square Bomber on Possible Tea Party Sympathies and Opposition to Arizona Immigration Enforcement Law
New York, New York--Based on suggestions from civil liberties groups, the Justice Department is focusing its interrogation of the Times Square bomber on his possible Tea Party sympathies and support for Arizona's law that enforces rules against illegal immigration."From what I read and see in the media," said Attorney General Eric Holder, "lots of people are upset because the federal government has not done its job securing the nation's borders, and those people could be prone to violence. The Times Square bomber just became a naturalized citizen in 2009, but since then he visited his home country of Pakistan and received bomb training and was later caught on a flight headed for Dubai, indicating he may have become alienated by what the ACLU and pro-illegal immigration groups have called domestic Gestapo-like anti-illegal immigration policies."
Associated articles: ABC News; Washington Times
Justice Department Presses Times Square Bomber on Possible Tea Party Sympathies and Opposition to Arizona Immigration Enforcement Law
New York, New York--Based on suggestions from civil liberties groups, the Justice Department is focusing its interrogation of the Times Square bomber on his possible Tea Party sympathies and support for Arizona's law that enforces rules against illegal immigration."From what I read and see in the media," said Attorney General Eric Holder, "lots of people are upset because the federal government has not done its job securing the nation's borders, and those people could be prone to violence. The Times Square bomber just became a naturalized citizen in 2009, but since then he visited his home country of Pakistan and received bomb training and was later caught on a flight headed for Dubai, indicating he may have become alienated by what the ACLU and pro-illegal immigration groups have called domestic Gestapo-like anti-illegal immigration policies."
Associated articles: ABC News; Washington Times
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Suddenly, Dissing Dalai Lama Now “Wicked Cool”
Style Section--While former President George W. Bush was often pilloried for the slightest imagined mistake, President Obama has snubbed the Dalai Lama so as not to offend China, given short shrift to Katrina victims in a recent visit to New Orleans, attempted to block a major media outlet from participating in the White House press pool, and even poked fun at the Special Olypics on a late night talk show. But unlike his predecessor, Obama's managed to make all those things "wicked cool.""I used to think making fun of the Special Olympics was bad," said one teenager. "But if Obama's doing it, it must be poppin' slammin' off the hook!"
Other former "outs" that are now "in" include signing off on secret deals with drug companies, politicizing all aspects of the government, and playing lots of male-only basketball.
One style columnist described how Obama was greeted with cheers from reporters when he launched into an impromptu freestyle rap dissing the Dalai Lama between rounds of golf.
"When Obama went off on how the spiritual leader of a free Tibet should 'save the Lama for his Mama,' I knew we'd entered a new era of political chic," she said.
Associated articles: Washington Times; http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28764_Page2.html; Politico 1
Suddenly, Dissing Dalai Lama Now “Wicked Cool”
Style Section--While former President George W. Bush was often pilloried for the slightest imagined mistake, President Obama has snubbed the Dalai Lama so as not to offend China, given short shrift to Katrina victims in a recent visit to New Orleans, attempted to block a major media outlet from participating in the White House press pool, and even poked fun at the Special Olypics on a late night talk show. But unlike his predecessor, Obama's managed to make all those things "wicked cool.""I used to think making fun of the Special Olympics was bad," said one teenager. "But if Obama's doing it, it must be poppin' slammin' off the hook!"
Other former "outs" that are now "in" include signing off on secret deals with drug companies, politicizing all aspects of the government, and playing lots of male-only basketball.
One style columnist described how Obama was greeted with cheers from reporters when he launched into an impromptu freestyle rap dissing the Dalai Lama between rounds of golf.
"When Obama went off on how the spiritual leader of a free Tibet should 'save the Lama for his Mama,' I knew we'd entered a new era of political chic," she said.
Associated articles: Washington Times; http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28764_Page2.html; Politico 1
Friday, October 23, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
After Trying to Delegitimize Fox News, White House Makes Bo Liaison to Other Media Lapdogs
Associated video and articles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMILRyDRdM&feature=player_embedded; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102203801.html; http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28497.html
After Trying to Delegitimize Fox News, White House Makes Bo Liaison to Other Media Lapdogs
Associated video and articles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMILRyDRdM&feature=player_embedded; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102203801.html; http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28497.html
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
New York Times to Reduce Costs and Increase Transparency By Not Using Ink and Paper on Reports Critical of Administration Agenda
New York, NY--The New York Times -- after years of losing revenue in the face of competition from other media outlets providing more accurate and balanced sources of news -- announced a major cost-savings initiative that includes eliminating all the ink and paper that would otherwise be used to print stories reflecting poorly on the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress."We're launching a program of unprecedented openness," said the Times' editor-in-chief. "It was patently obvious to the most casual observer that we aren't interested in balanced coverage, and now we're making that transparent for our readers. Literally transparent, as we'll be printing the paper with huge gaping holes representing the stories we refuse to print."
Newspaper officials said the new policy would avoid the sort of cognitive dissonance its readers had felt too often in the past. "For example," they said, "we refused to run any stories about the controversy surrounding former Obama Administration green jobs czar Van Jones -- who was an avowed communist, cop-killer supporter, and believer in the fringe theory that the U.S. government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks -- until after he had already resigned."
A Times spokesperson told reporters the new initiative will help the environment as well, saying "We're also going to start using actual, all-natural, biodegradable bile for printing editorials criticizing opponents of a liberal agenda."
Associated articles: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Why-did-the-press-ignore-the-Van-Jones-scandal_-8210602-57658222.html; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/07/EDPG19JROC.DTL; http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/nyt-highlights-funemployment-in-democratic-recession/; associated video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_t45MWVsA&feature=player_embedded
New York Times to Reduce Costs and Increase Transparency By Not Using Ink and Paper on Reports Critical of Administration Agenda
New York, NY--The New York Times -- after years of losing revenue in the face of competition from other media outlets providing more accurate and balanced sources of news -- announced a major cost-savings initiative that includes eliminating all the ink and paper that would otherwise be used to print stories reflecting poorly on the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress."We're launching a program of unprecedented openness," said the Times' editor-in-chief. "It was patently obvious to the most casual observer that we aren't interested in balanced coverage, and now we're making that transparent for our readers. Literally transparent, as we'll be printing the paper with huge gaping holes representing the stories we refuse to print."
Newspaper officials said the new policy would avoid the sort of cognitive dissonance its readers had felt too often in the past. "For example," they said, "we refused to run any stories about the controversy surrounding former Obama Administration green jobs czar Van Jones -- who was an avowed communist, cop-killer supporter, and believer in the fringe theory that the U.S. government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks -- until after he had already resigned."
A Times spokesperson told reporters the new initiative will help the environment as well, saying "We're also going to start using actual, all-natural, biodegradable bile for printing editorials criticizing opponents of a liberal agenda."
Associated articles: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Why-did-the-press-ignore-the-Van-Jones-scandal_-8210602-57658222.html; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/07/EDPG19JROC.DTL; http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/nyt-highlights-funemployment-in-democratic-recession/; associated video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_t45MWVsA&feature=player_embedded
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