Media Watch, Page 109

The week of the election, we were treated to two fawning multi-paged sections devoted to the election of Barack Obama, with the one on Saturday the 8th having an image of him that spanned 3/4ths of the page. Yesterday, the hot story on page 1 was a glowing piece on Michelle Obama and how she had become an inspiration for black women across America. It was a nice piece, but why was it on the front page? For that matter, wouldn’t a better place for it been Parade magazine? .....   [Read More]

They mean it in a complimentary way, of course, but for those of us who aren’t into sugarcoating the liberal FDR’s massive government expansion, the comparison is anything but favorable. In fact, in me it provokes a sense of dread about what’s to come......   [Read More]

And no, I’m not talking about the Bush adminstration but instead the upcoming Obama administration, if this profile piece on Obama’s chief spokesman-turned-press secretary Robert Gibbs is any indication. .....   [Read More]