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The things you find at Yahoo… Headline: Planned Sarah Palin CSU speech stirs California protest (CSU stands for California State University, of which there are several; this particular one being Stanislaus). Were the speech being given by Michelle Obama, think any of the mortally offended parties would raise so much as a peep? Although they do have . . . → Read More: Reading The Headlines So You Don’t Have To For close to a year now I’ve been annoying, tormenting, pestering, plaguing, worrying, badgering, harrying, persecuting, irking, bullyraging, vexing, disquieting, grating, besetting, bothering, teasing, nettling, tantalizing and ruffling Duane Patterson, producer of the Hugh Hewitt radio show, about making an appearance on said program to talk about the book. To date the answer has been variations . . . → Read More: You’re Not Representin’ Me Back to back stories on the local all, uh, news station: 1. A report on the state GOP gathering in San Jose, focusing on the Senate primary. First words out of the reporter: “Front runner Tom Campbell…” Really? I mean, really? The reporter then proceeded to say Campbell’s speech sucked, Carly Fiorina’s rocked, and as to Chuck . . . → Read More: Media Bias? In San Francisco? Really? “So are you going to donate?” “Donate to what?” “Not what. Who. To my favorite writer. He wants to cover the championship game between Alabama and Texas.” “Him and nine million other sportswriters… but why is he asking for donations?” “So he can afford to go.” “I see. Well then, looks like he’ll have to settle for watching it on television . . . → Read More: A Regrettably Almost Totally Non-Imaginary Conversation Last Night On Twitter New post for the Examiner about the media’s decidedly unsurprisingly biased coverage of Rifqa Bary. No surprise in media coverage of Rifqa Bary Rifqa Bary Reading the assorted media accounts of the Rifqa Bary case, the words of Christ to His disciples come to mind: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. . . . → Read More: No, Not Surprising At All I do have better things to do than bash the media. After all, in a fashion I am a member of said profession. That said, sometimes things come down the MSM chute that simply can’t be ignored. Like really, really bad reporting. One would think in this era of newspapers being on the endangered species list all parties . . . → Read More: No, Really, This Is Being Passed Off As Reporting The News Earlier today, I was taking a breather from the day job by spending a moment on Facebook. One of the people on my friends list there is Ron Lemaster Jr. He’s a sportswriter focusing on NASCAR for assorted publications. As people are wont to do on Facebook, Mr. Lemaster had taken some online polls, the results of which . . . → Read More: You Didn’t Learn That From Mickey Mouse, Now Did You Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the seventh circuit court of appeals in Chicago, is (so I’m told — like what, I collect judicial trading cards?) a heavy hitter in legal land, one whose word carries genuine heft. He and Nobel Prize winner (economics; 1992) Gary Becker share a blog in which they opine on assorted . . . → Read More: Fair Vs. Fair Use The phrase “media bias” is flung about so freely we’ve become almost inured to its usage. It’s easy, far too easy, to slap it on every story we don’t like as a convenient means of dismissing its contents, be they pro or con. Sometimes, though, you run across something so egregious, so blatant in its willful . . . → Read More: No, Seriously, This Is A News Article It is lamentable that George Santayana’s statement “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is forever associated with the madman Jim Jones, who had it posted above his throne at Jonestown. There is much truth in those words. As a bunch of people are about to discover. Again. Yesterday’s New York Times included an . . . → Read More: Perfect Situation… For Some, Anyway |
 
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