Rosie won’t be on MSNBC after all
According to her, because she blabbed about it, the deal is off.
MSNBC’s leftward descent
I don’t watch much of the big 24-7 news networks anymore, but when I did, I always tuned in to either Fox or MSNBC, because I found both of them to be generally fair. I found Fox to be more fair than MSNBC, but gave MSNBC credit for being an offshoot of the liberal NBC while at the same distancing itself from NBC with its more balanced programming.
Liberal McClatchy news outlet shills for Iran in latest hit piece on the Bush administration
Back in February, I wrote about how the liberal McClatchy news outlet, along with others, constructed strawman arguments that Bush never made about Iran, and then proceeded to tear them down in one of the most blatant displays of anti-war bias on the pages of a major news outlet that I had ever seen.
With violence down in Iraq …
… journalists don’t know quite what to think. Outside of the speculation on the possibility of future deaths, they’re not quite sure what to do – as Rob Port notes – which is a stark contrast to their multiple ways of spinning deaths in Iraq when they are going up.
Michael Yon weighs in on the Beauchamp/TNR scandal
Sorry for the light blogging today – been another busy one, but I wanted to post this link to Michael Yon’s piece on Scott Beauchamp. He’s got a bit of a different take on Beauchamp than some, and saves his harshest words for TNR.
Journalistic arrogance personified
It’s not a good day for the Sacramento Bee, as the blog post one of their reporters (Bobby Caina Calvan, from their Baghad bureau) wrote (which looks like its been deleted) about a soldier in Iraq who had never heard of the Knight Ridder news organization, has generated widespread attention for the arrogance it personifies from the MSM. You can read the recaptured, unedited post here, and background on the post here.