Idiotarian and Anti-Idiotarian of the year
Little Green Footballs is holding its annual Idiotarian and Anti-Idiotarian of the year contests. Here’s the link for the Idiotarian of the year voting. The nominees are:
Creating absolute moral authority: Mediots take the time to point out that Gerald Ford opposed the Iraq war
Former president Gerald Ford has not even been buried yet and already the media can’t resist glomming on to Bob Woodward’s exclusive interview with Ford, done in 2004, where Ford essentially said he opposed the Iraq war:
Troop deaths in Iraq: The media creates another “milestone”
Macranger blogs about an Associated Press report from yesterday which noted the following:
On criticism of the media and blogs
There’s a lot of talk on both sides of the aisle today about Wall Street Journal assistant editorial features editor Joseph Rago’s piece on the demise of the media and rise of the blogosphere and National Review editor Rich Lowry’s surprising piece in which he defends the MSM, saying that they’re not always wrong. The consensus seems to be (at least on the right hand side of the aisle) that Rago’s full of himself and Lowry’s lost it.
Concrete proof that the media will make a ‘controversy’ out of anything
As you may have already heard by now, it was reported yesterday that the First Lady had a small skin cancer tumor removed from her right knee in early November. The MSM has managed to turn this news into a manufactured ‘controversy’ because it wasn’t revealed until yesterday.
First there was the peace activist mama, now there’s a peace activist grandma
Dan Riehl blogs today about a Vermont grandmother by the name of Rosemarie Jackowski whom the AP has dubbed as an “unlikely peace activist.” Only thing is, once you read Dan’s post, you’ll realize that it’s not as “unlikely” for her to be a peace activist as the AP (predictably) makes her about to be.