More on the media

Truth in Labeling: Why Not Just Call The Media Democrats?   "The reality is when a Republican is interviewed or a Republican position is reported, it is actually a Democrat interviewing or reporting on the issue.  ....This opportunity for Democratic reporters to slant their coverage without explicitly revealing their prejudice is enormous.  Common tricks that reporters use to slant a story are the selection of facts, which "experts" are called upon for quotes, adjectives describing people or events, and many more.  An explicit label or repositioning of the reporter and media outlet would be a constant reminder to a busy public that the information being supplied is actually from a partisan Democrat parading as fair and objective reporter.  The public will be able assign their own context and weight to the story based on the bias of the reporting source.  Over time the Democratic media's power and influence will greatly diminish."

Washington Post Ombudsman Gives Up Any Pretense of Credibility 

"Pexton also admits that the Post timed the story to help the president.

The other criticisms are that this story was published knowing that President Obama was going to announce his shift in favor of gay marriage. The allegation is that somehow The Post is working with the White House to time the story.

Do I think The Post took advantage of the timing? Yes. Vice President Biden had telegraphed the president’s position on gay marriage just days earlier. This story on Romney was in preparation for three weeks. It is part of a series of biographical stories on Romney being written by Horowitz and others and edited by The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor, David Maraniss, who is known for his best- selling biographies of major U.S. political figures.

Ed Driscoll: Regarding ‘Our First Gay President’ and Other Goofy Recent Newsweekly Covers   "Once Matt Drudge blew open the story of Bill Clinton’s dalliances with Monica Lewinsky, a story that Newsweek attempted to suppress, the walls quickly began to fall, and savvy news consumers quickly began to receive their news elsewhere — including from news aggregation sites such as Drudge and Instapundit, which can be and are updated numerous times a day, unlike the increasingly lethargic schedule of the newsweeklies."

Head Games  "Think about it: when was the last time you heard any story embarrassing to the Obama  administration pursued to an actual conclusion?" 

CNN's Soledad O’Brien Beclowns Herself on National TV  "You won’t be surprised to learn that she was just pretty much reciting the Wikipedia definition of critical race theory (CRT). (Which apparently has changed throughout the day today as the Arbiters of Truth and Knowledge attempted to strip out any references to ‘white superiority’.)

Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg spoke out against the scourge of motherhood on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes.  "She attacked Ann Romney for talking about the glories of being a mom – on Mother’s Day, no less –  her with Hitler and Stalin:"...


CNN's Don Lemon Compares Mitt Romney to 60s Segregationist George Wallace  "At the beginning of a CNN Newsroom segment he calls "No Talking Points," Lemon played a clip of Wallace saying in 1963, "I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" followed by Romney saying Saturday, "Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman" "

Obama's Hawaii press conference with his slobbering sycophants.  More here.

CNN WH Correspondent Asks Obama if GOP Candidates Are 'Uninformed, Out of Touch, or Irresponsible' (Video)  
"And this is the type of hard-nosed journalist the supposedly most trusted name in news has as a White House correspondent.

"Imagine for a moment how much better the country would be doing if there were real questions asked at these events."