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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Newsbusters & Me, Part 1
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Newsbusters and Me, Part 1. For the last few weeks, I've been spending some time over at Newsbusters. The big blog of the Media Research Center (MRC). The MRC has always portrayed itself as a media watchdog with a conservative bent but it would be a big mistake to put it in the same pound as liberal media watchdogs like Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. FAIR), and Media Matters For America. Media Matters For America lists as its mission. For a long time. Though, and last night...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Media Matters Fails To Pluck Press Over Chick Fil-A
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Media Matters Fails To Pluck Press Over Chick Fil-A. Press criticism is very important these days. In many ways, owing to the very poor quality of contemporary journalism, it has become more important than journalism itself. We need competent, intelligent, thoughtful press criticism now as much as ever. One of the most prominent press watchdogs in the U.S. is the liberal Media Matters For America. The debunking of which is a noble enough subject. Project had been (mostly fruitle...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Busting Newsbusters, Briefly
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Friday, August 31, 2012. Busting Newsbusters, Briefly. A little self-promotion: I've just started contributing to " Busting Newsbusters. A blog whose title says it all. Regular readers will have noted I have I have. This will help feed it. I don't know how often or regular my own contributions will be- things are pretty hectic for me now- but my collaborator Kevin, who started the thing, keeps things pretty regular over there. Check it out. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Newsbusters & Me, Part 3
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. Newsbusters and Me, Part 3. The Media Research Center describes its mission as being to "prove" a "strident liberal bias" exists within the national news media- one that "undermines traditional American values"- and to "neutralize" the impact of this bias on American politics. In brief,. The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media.". Of that "in brief" sentence reads:. Today, for example, Bob Schieffer, the host of CBS News' Fac...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Attack of the Bubble People
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Attack of the Bubble People. Over the years, I've written about a great many problems faced by American political discourse. One, in particular, plagues U.S. politics, maybe more seriously than all of the others combined. These rent-a-mobs have remained completely impervious to this. They’re being told by the conservative elite- the only voices allowed in their bubble- that it does, and, to them, that’s The Truth. Reality never penetrates.[1]. Because of the data available, I li...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: The Obama Backs Bush Murder Policy
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. The Obama Backs Bush Murder Policy. All of this was in response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, who are looking to limit the government's power to carry out these sorts of Mafia-style extrajudicial murders to cases of imminent danger to life and safety and have requested that the court force the executive branch to publicly disclose the secret process that results in a U.S. citizen being placed on a government hit-list. Sound Election An...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: MRC Demands Disclosure, Doesn't Offer Any
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Saturday, August 20, 2011. MRC Demands Disclosure, Doesn't Offer Any. Over at Newsbusters earlier this week, Scott Whitlock, the MRC's "senior news analyst," slammed ABC News' World News Tonight. For this embarrassing error, and Whitlock subsequently issued a semi-correction. Big Oil finances the climate change denial industry. Of which the MRC is a part. Gas prices, and domestic drilling. Yet, as far as I've been able to determine, not one of these articles has ever disclosed these contributions.
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: More on Phony Balance, the Phony Study & the Phony Crisis
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Friday, July 29, 2011. More on Phony Balance, the Phony Study and the Phony Crisis. Yesterday, liberal columnist Paul Krugman returned to his theme of the perils of false "balance" in the press. Particularly in coverage of the current debt "crisis," where, in the name of "balance," news reports have repeatedly presented both the Democrats and the Republicans as being at fault for a problem that, in fact, is entirely the fault of the Republicans:. Krugman sees the obvious problem with this:. Who completel...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: Looks Like Media Only Matter Until You Criticize Media Matters (UPDATED below)
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Looks Like Media Only Matter Until You Criticize Media Matters (UPDATED below). I've been a regular reader of and commenter on the work of liberal press critic Media Matters For America since its birth in 2004. Two days ago, I wrote about my relationship with MMFA:. This month, I've had occasion to offer up some more of. Of MMFA's total output for a 13-day period, and showed that over 60% of it was directed at Fox News, while very little had been devoted to the largest press o...
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LEFT HOOK! THE BLOG: The Daily Caller Ineffectually Finkels on the Press
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Friday, August 24, 2012. The Daily Caller Ineffectually Finkels on the Press. There was an op-ed over at the Daily Caller. On Tuesday in which a lawyer named Mendy Finkel tries to have his cake and eat it, too, regarding one of the right's favorite boogeymen, the "liberal media.". The first big hole in that is apparent right away: the Obama has governed from the center-right throughout his administration. If the press is protecting him, it certainly isn't doing so out of any liberal. In setting this up, ...
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