The Hubris of the NY Times!
continues to amaze, even as it fails to surprise. In this story about political bias in media, the Times focuses on biased old Fox News.
Does anyone not believe that Fox is not biased? No. Is it news that the network is conservative? No. End of story. This is a do-bites man story. I will not hold my breath waiting for the Times to write about the bias in its own pages.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Hollywood Gives MSM the Big Pushhttp://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/39/deadline-finke.php
In an interesting comment on how the mighty have fallen, Hollywood is now pulling it's ad money from print dinosaurs. How long can the NYT survive when the Hollywood ad$ dries up?
"Hollywood is about to deliver bad news to the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times and, to a lesser extent, other big-city dailies around the country. Every major movie studio is rethinking its reliably humongous display ad buys in those papers because those newsosaur readers are, to quote one mogul, “older and elitist” compared to younger, low-brow filmgoers — so it makes no sense to waste the dough."
In an interesting comment on how the mighty have fallen, Hollywood is now pulling it's ad money from print dinosaurs. How long can the NYT survive when the Hollywood ad$ dries up?
"Hollywood is about to deliver bad news to the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times and, to a lesser extent, other big-city dailies around the country. Every major movie studio is rethinking its reliably humongous display ad buys in those papers because those newsosaur readers are, to quote one mogul, “older and elitist” compared to younger, low-brow filmgoers — so it makes no sense to waste the dough."
CINDY UNLEASHED: 'THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD IS GEORGE W. BUSH'
Wed Aug 17 2005 21:51:56 ET
"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."
Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:
"They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
Sheehan Goes Over the Top
Far be it from me to lack empathy for a woman who has lost her only son to the war. That empathy does not mean I must take her seriously. She strikes me as dangerously unhinged and losing a son to war does not give you higher perceptions about policy. The MSM has latched onto someone they hope will do better than Kerry in brining Bush down. Who elected her anything?
People keep saying this war is like Vietnam. I am finally seeing the similarity: protest gets more attention than military matters, except for combat deaths. If they tell us long enough that we are losing, we will.
From Drudge:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."
"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people."
Wed Aug 17 2005 21:51:56 ET
"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."
Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:
"They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
Sheehan Goes Over the Top
Far be it from me to lack empathy for a woman who has lost her only son to the war. That empathy does not mean I must take her seriously. She strikes me as dangerously unhinged and losing a son to war does not give you higher perceptions about policy. The MSM has latched onto someone they hope will do better than Kerry in brining Bush down. Who elected her anything?
People keep saying this war is like Vietnam. I am finally seeing the similarity: protest gets more attention than military matters, except for combat deaths. If they tell us long enough that we are losing, we will.
From Drudge:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."
"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people."
Monday, July 25, 2005
Jane's Coming Out!My Way News
Against the war in Iraq. What is Jane's fascination with dictatorial systems?
Against the war in Iraq. What is Jane's fascination with dictatorial systems?
Why Hillary Will Never Win
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
Who is it who uses the beer test? That America votes for the candidate with whom they would most easily share a beer and a chat? Consider Reagan v Carter; Bush I v Clinton; Clinton v Dole; Bysh II v Gore or Kerry.
I think the theory works. How many would vote to have a beer with that face sitting across the table. The GOP will have to work hard to find a less attractive alternative. Is that picture a fluke? I think it captures her pretty well. Add the shrill voice which comes out when she tries to whip up a crowd and she hasn't got a chance.
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
Who is it who uses the beer test? That America votes for the candidate with whom they would most easily share a beer and a chat? Consider Reagan v Carter; Bush I v Clinton; Clinton v Dole; Bysh II v Gore or Kerry.
I think the theory works. How many would vote to have a beer with that face sitting across the table. The GOP will have to work hard to find a less attractive alternative. Is that picture a fluke? I think it captures her pretty well. Add the shrill voice which comes out when she tries to whip up a crowd and she hasn't got a chance.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Cuban Dissidents ArrestedBBC NEWS | Americas | Dissidents held in Cuba crackdown
"Some Cuban dissidents are unhappy at what they see as France's particularly soft line on Cuba."
Happy to see this reported in the BBC.
"Some Cuban dissidents are unhappy at what they see as France's particularly soft line on Cuba."
Happy to see this reported in the BBC.
Friday, July 15, 2005
They'll Always be a Beeb
As long as there are people who don't get it
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
Beeb listeners chose Marx as the greatest philosopher
Since philosophers would probably not care about this one whit, I don't know why they bother (or why I bother to comment)
Since Marx was an economist who got it all wrong I don't know what they were thinking.
Who voted? Where are there still Marxists? Universities? Embarasing for them.
As long as there are people who don't get it
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
Beeb listeners chose Marx as the greatest philosopher
Since philosophers would probably not care about this one whit, I don't know why they bother (or why I bother to comment)
Since Marx was an economist who got it all wrong I don't know what they were thinking.
Who voted? Where are there still Marxists? Universities? Embarasing for them.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
"It is A War"
Telegraph | Opinion | How are we going to fight this war?: "'It is a war,' one Cabinet minister said to me. 'People didn't believe that till last Thursday. But they do now.'
I hope he is right. This war, of course, is like nothing that has preceded it, which is why it is so tempting to call it something else: a criminal conspiracy, or a series of isolated atrocities carried out by psychopathic mavericks. And yet the analysis that the President and Prime Minister offered after 9/11 now seems more pertinent than ever.
We face three, inextricably linked threats: from Islamist fanatics, from the rogue states that harbour them, and from the deadly weapons which they seek to acquire. "
"The Iraq war was grotesquely caricatured in this country as a symptom of the Prime Minister's political infatuation with George W Bush, even as a demented outburst of Christian adventurism.
It came to be viewed almost as an abstraction, a symbol of Mr Blair's mad itch to intervene, a quarrel in a far away country of which we know nothing. But everyone knows the London Underground map, and everyone can point now to the stations that bear fresh blood stains. The war on terror has come home.
In truth, it was always here."
Of course, many still doubt that there is a war, or refuse to place responsibility for the attacks of 7/7 where they belong. Far easier to blame Bush and Blair. It was easier to denounce Churchill than to confront Hitler.
The easy way out is an exit to a very bad place.
Telegraph | Opinion | How are we going to fight this war?: "'It is a war,' one Cabinet minister said to me. 'People didn't believe that till last Thursday. But they do now.'
I hope he is right. This war, of course, is like nothing that has preceded it, which is why it is so tempting to call it something else: a criminal conspiracy, or a series of isolated atrocities carried out by psychopathic mavericks. And yet the analysis that the President and Prime Minister offered after 9/11 now seems more pertinent than ever.
We face three, inextricably linked threats: from Islamist fanatics, from the rogue states that harbour them, and from the deadly weapons which they seek to acquire. "
"The Iraq war was grotesquely caricatured in this country as a symptom of the Prime Minister's political infatuation with George W Bush, even as a demented outburst of Christian adventurism.
It came to be viewed almost as an abstraction, a symbol of Mr Blair's mad itch to intervene, a quarrel in a far away country of which we know nothing. But everyone knows the London Underground map, and everyone can point now to the stations that bear fresh blood stains. The war on terror has come home.
In truth, it was always here."
Of course, many still doubt that there is a war, or refuse to place responsibility for the attacks of 7/7 where they belong. Far easier to blame Bush and Blair. It was easier to denounce Churchill than to confront Hitler.
The easy way out is an exit to a very bad place.
Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Rule, Britannia Indeed!Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Boris Johnson, MP for Henley makes a point:
"We seem to have pulled off the rare feat of breeding suicide bombers determined to attack the very society that incubated them; and the question is why. Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own? Last summer we had a magnificent holiday driving around America, and for a cynical Brit it was astonishing to see the way the Americans fly that flag of theirs.
On every porch, on every flagpole, on every bumper: there were the stars and stripes, unabashed, exuberant, proud. Contrast our treatment of the Union Flag, which is endlessly being cited in racial harassment cases, on the ground that it is provocative merely - for instance - to stick it on your locker. Remember Bob Ayling, the Labour-supporting businessman who succeeded the late, great Lord King at British Airways, and decided that the Union Flag was so too embarrassing that he stripped it from the tailfins of his planes.
The Americans would be mystified by our approach to a national symbol. For them the flag is a vital agent of integration, a way of asserting that, in that vast immigrant country, each person is not only American but equally American, and has an equal stake in society. That is why American children still begin their day at school by pledging allegiance to the flag, and that is why the Americans show a patriotism and a simple enthusiasm for their own country that our jaded British sensibilities find childish."
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Rule, Britannia Indeed!Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Boris Johnson, MP for Henley makes a point:
"We seem to have pulled off the rare feat of breeding suicide bombers determined to attack the very society that incubated them; and the question is why. Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own? Last summer we had a magnificent holiday driving around America, and for a cynical Brit it was astonishing to see the way the Americans fly that flag of theirs.
On every porch, on every flagpole, on every bumper: there were the stars and stripes, unabashed, exuberant, proud. Contrast our treatment of the Union Flag, which is endlessly being cited in racial harassment cases, on the ground that it is provocative merely - for instance - to stick it on your locker. Remember Bob Ayling, the Labour-supporting businessman who succeeded the late, great Lord King at British Airways, and decided that the Union Flag was so too embarrassing that he stripped it from the tailfins of his planes.
The Americans would be mystified by our approach to a national symbol. For them the flag is a vital agent of integration, a way of asserting that, in that vast immigrant country, each person is not only American but equally American, and has an equal stake in society. That is why American children still begin their day at school by pledging allegiance to the flag, and that is why the Americans show a patriotism and a simple enthusiasm for their own country that our jaded British sensibilities find childish."
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Telegraph Sums Up UK as Election ApproachesTelegraph | Opinion | What am I thinking? VE Day is going to be spoilt by VT Day
When Mr Blair first came into office he did so on a funny, floaty feeling that we could all be kinder and gentler. He talked of "the giving age" and (in defiance of the demographic facts) of a "young country".
Today, the country feels older, crabbier, dirtier, unkinder, ruder, more violent, less British and less free. In particular, the structure of welfare, "human rights", tax, savings and education makes you feel that if you try hard to do right you are punished, and if you don't bother - or actively do wrong - you're fine.
Blair was on the right side of history in supporting the US effort to put an end to Saddamism in Iraq. Too bad he can't get the rest right.
When Mr Blair first came into office he did so on a funny, floaty feeling that we could all be kinder and gentler. He talked of "the giving age" and (in defiance of the demographic facts) of a "young country".
Today, the country feels older, crabbier, dirtier, unkinder, ruder, more violent, less British and less free. In particular, the structure of welfare, "human rights", tax, savings and education makes you feel that if you try hard to do right you are punished, and if you don't bother - or actively do wrong - you're fine.
Blair was on the right side of history in supporting the US effort to put an end to Saddamism in Iraq. Too bad he can't get the rest right.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Telegraph On Target
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/16/dl1601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/16/ixportal.html
Telegraph | Opinion | China row shows how little EU cares for democracy
"...EU favours stability over democracy."
The revolutionary past of the US is the difference. The experience of Britons in standing up to monarchs since 1215 helps them understand. The rest of Europe is afraid of change and confrontation. It seems to end badly, in the Jacobins, or Nazis, or Napoleon, for example.
The Dutch made money because they kowtowed, the British did not. The Dutch are still kowtowing, as part of the EU. The British would be wise to resist the Constitution. They don't belong with the rest fo the EU. Bail out! Now!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/16/dl1601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/16/ixportal.html
Telegraph | Opinion | China row shows how little EU cares for democracy
"...EU favours stability over democracy."
The revolutionary past of the US is the difference. The experience of Britons in standing up to monarchs since 1215 helps them understand. The rest of Europe is afraid of change and confrontation. It seems to end badly, in the Jacobins, or Nazis, or Napoleon, for example.
The Dutch made money because they kowtowed, the British did not. The Dutch are still kowtowing, as part of the EU. The British would be wise to resist the Constitution. They don't belong with the rest fo the EU. Bail out! Now!
Dean: Dems will use Schiavo
Why not? Everyone else has.
Dean Says Democrats Will Make Schiavo Case an Election Issue
Money quote:"...we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?' "
To which "loved ones" is he referring? Terri's Mom and Dad and siblings who wanted her to live? or terri's conflicted husband anxious to get on with life with his common law wife? he, of course, had the final say.
The dems don't get this: the Republican pols might have been seen as grandstanding, but they were erring, if at all, on the side of life, not determined to continue the quickening pace to the grave our society seems to demand.
Of course, the issues that will determine things in 2008 have yet to be revealed.
Why not? Everyone else has.
Dean Says Democrats Will Make Schiavo Case an Election Issue
Money quote:"...we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?' "
To which "loved ones" is he referring? Terri's Mom and Dad and siblings who wanted her to live? or terri's conflicted husband anxious to get on with life with his common law wife? he, of course, had the final say.
The dems don't get this: the Republican pols might have been seen as grandstanding, but they were erring, if at all, on the side of life, not determined to continue the quickening pace to the grave our society seems to demand.
Of course, the issues that will determine things in 2008 have yet to be revealed.
Friday, April 15, 2005
The Apple Doesn't Fall far From the Tree Dept.
What is it about the MSM which makes it so hard for editors to distinguish between fact and fiction?
Entertainment: Industry Article | Reuters.com
What is it about the MSM which makes it so hard for editors to distinguish between fact and fiction?
Entertainment: Industry Article | Reuters.com
Friday, March 25, 2005
Conservative crack-up?
Glenn opines as to whether the conservative coalition at the heart of the Republican Party will split over the Schiavo incident. I suppose this is some high-powered wishful thinking on his part, but I suggest he be more concerned over the impact this might have on Republican judicial nomineesa dn the basic will to get them through despite the consequences. Of course, judges nominated by a conservative might be inclined towards judicial restraint in the face of requests for intervention in states' matters, and may well have decided the same way in the schiavo as the others have done. It seems, however that the Clinton appointees have behaved differently than the Republican appoointees.
MSNBC - A conservative crackup?
Glenn opines as to whether the conservative coalition at the heart of the Republican Party will split over the Schiavo incident. I suppose this is some high-powered wishful thinking on his part, but I suggest he be more concerned over the impact this might have on Republican judicial nomineesa dn the basic will to get them through despite the consequences. Of course, judges nominated by a conservative might be inclined towards judicial restraint in the face of requests for intervention in states' matters, and may well have decided the same way in the schiavo as the others have done. It seems, however that the Clinton appointees have behaved differently than the Republican appoointees.
MSNBC - A conservative crackup?
Thursday, March 24, 2005
MSNBC - �No Moral Sense�
Notice the phrasing of this poll question: Do you believe Terry Schiavo has the right to die?
Is that the issue? Isn't it more a question of whether her wishes are known, as the main evidence for her "wishes" is a husband with a conflict of interest?
Notice the phrasing of this poll question: Do you believe Terry Schiavo has the right to die?
Is that the issue? Isn't it more a question of whether her wishes are known, as the main evidence for her "wishes" is a husband with a conflict of interest?
Open letter to Maureen Dowd:
Re http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/opinion/24dowd.html?hp
Is "liberties" in your email address because you take liberties with reason?
"now they're trying to pack the federal bench with trustworthy conservatives"
Would you rail against appointments to the judiciary if "trustworthy" liberals were being appointed? We both know you would not.
Bush didn't "...talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami"
Did you object that Kofi Annan stayed at his ski resort for days after the tsunami? As Bush vacationed, however the US military delivered immediate aid to the victims. How would his talking have helped anyone?
Why do you make the Schiavo case primarily about religion?
"The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "faith," the less we honor the credo that a person's relationship with God should remain a private matter."
When people of religious conviction stand in vigil outside a prison on the eve of an execution do you cry out about the establishment of a theocracy?
I thought liberals applauded the intervention of the Federal Courts in the pursuit of an individual's rights? How does Terry Schiavo fail to qualify? Because she's brain-damaged?
Your column is never a bastion of reason, but today you hit bottom and started digging.
Re http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/opinion/24dowd.html?hp
Is "liberties" in your email address because you take liberties with reason?
"now they're trying to pack the federal bench with trustworthy conservatives"
Would you rail against appointments to the judiciary if "trustworthy" liberals were being appointed? We both know you would not.
Bush didn't "...talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami"
Did you object that Kofi Annan stayed at his ski resort for days after the tsunami? As Bush vacationed, however the US military delivered immediate aid to the victims. How would his talking have helped anyone?
Why do you make the Schiavo case primarily about religion?
"The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "faith," the less we honor the credo that a person's relationship with God should remain a private matter."
When people of religious conviction stand in vigil outside a prison on the eve of an execution do you cry out about the establishment of a theocracy?
I thought liberals applauded the intervention of the Federal Courts in the pursuit of an individual's rights? How does Terry Schiavo fail to qualify? Because she's brain-damaged?
Your column is never a bastion of reason, but today you hit bottom and started digging.
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