Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
I had every intention of letting “Cheney Flag-gate” go uncommented upon as a non-story. Vice President Cheney went pheasant hunting at an exclusive preserve in Dutchess County, New York yesterday, and the hunt itself left only pheasants hitting the ground. It was a local interest story for the most part, until a […]
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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
And I love the key line from AdAge’s Ken Whelton:
Of course, the news here is that The New Republic still had advertisers!
Not, for long we hope, but that depends on you contacting TNR’s advertisers.
This isn’t a matter of “pro-war” versus “anti-war” as many have tried to frame this story, but a matter […]
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Cross-posted at NoisyRoom.net:
Currently, I am looking into pulling together a timeline for media incidents concerning the Cowles’ Family Dynasty in Washington state. Larry Shook of Camas Magazine is the go-to source on this subject. As he points out, the Cowles have ruled the Spokane area with an iron financial fist for better than a century […]
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Cross-posted at the Bookworm Room:
By: Bookworm
Would it surprise any of you to learn that the media’s coverage of the President horse race accords more coverage, and more favorable coverage, to the Democratic candidates? It didn’t surprise me, but it’s still useful to see it in black and white:
Campaign coverage of the 2008 presidential election has […]
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Cross-posted at the Bookworm Room:
By: Bookworm
One of the things I landed on, hard, in my post about the great Rush Limbaugh smear was the fact that Media Matters, in order to smear Rush, did some very selective editing so as to destroy entirely the context in which his “phony soldier” comment arose. It seems that […]
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