The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed… Read more »
JACK OHMAN wasn’t just surprised by his satirical target’s response. He was stunned. “Not just by the massive response,” Ohman tells Comic Riffs, “but to the willful misinterpretation of the cartoon.” That willful misinterpretation, the Sacramento Bee journalist says, was by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who in the cartoon (published last Thursday) is depicted as… Read more »
In an article titled “The Boston Explosions – Look For Jews” on the Jordanian website Ammon News, Palestinian-born Jordanian journalist As’ad Al-’Azouni, known for his antisemitic articles, wrote that the Jews and the “American right” were behind the recent Boston bombing, just as they had been behind the attacks of 9/11. He claimed that the… Read more »
File this in the overflowing cabinet labeled: No Wonder the Mainstream Media Is Dying. On Tuesday, the Associated Press announced that it is banishing the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its famous stylebook. The world’s largest newsgathering outlet now advises reporters that “illegal” will “only refer to an action, not a person.” AP directs writers not… Read more »
Bleeding-heart liberal Robert Redford is already the subject of early Oscar buzz. His much-hyped new film glamorizing the lives of Weather Underground domestic terrorists, “The Company You Keep,” will be released in the U.S. next week. But peace-loving moviegoers should save their money and take a stand. Hollywood’s romanticizing of murderous radicals is an affront… Read more »
A couple of recent news items illustrate the close-mindedness, aggressiveness and oppressiveness of modern liberalism’s thought police. MSNBC’s Toure issued a scathing commentary against the GOP for considering outreach efforts toward African-Americans. Toure said: “Such is the dysfunctional, abusive relationship the GOP insists on with black folks. They say they want a new relationship while… Read more »
It’s difficult to imagine that he was surprised by the outcome. But the White House response that ensued after Author and Journalist Bob Woodward dared to question and criticize Obama should be an eye-opener to the world. And the fact that America’s beltway media culture has essentially “sided” with Obama and seems quite comfortable with… Read more »
It’s most gratifying that people are beginning to wake up to the bullying tactics of the White House toward those in the press who occasionally stray from the government-owned media model, but this has been going on for a while. Veteran reporter Bob Woodward has said in interviews with Politico and CNN that a White… Read more »
The CNN clip seen ’round the blogosphere . As more information comes to light, some context is in order: Bob Woodward, a fixture on American journalism’s Mount Rushmore, has been at the forefront of national reporting over the current budget fight. He’s repeatedly asserted that it was the White House — not Congress — that… Read more »
It was the average too-long, unfunny, over-produced Academy Awards TV show and then, after suffering through the 10-hour (well, it seemed like it) show, there was the first lady. In a ball gown. With military service personnel in dress uniform behind her. She declared of the Best Picture nominees, “They reminded us that we can… Read more »
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