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  • The blog that ate real journalism - (what Huffington's crash-and-burn debut really means!)

    05/12/2005 7:56:54 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 18 replies · 974+ views
    TOWNHALL.COM ^ | MAY 11, 2005 | CAL THOMAS
    The Huffington Post, an Internet blog that debuted May 9 after a campaign that would have delighted P.T. Barnum, makes me nostalgic for the good old days of journalism. It isn't that its founder, Arianna Huffington (who named it for herself in true Hollywood "enough about me, not what do YOU think about me" fashion) doesn't have every right to join the increasingly clogged blog superhighway. Rather, this blog has an agenda and speaks mostly to people who already believe what most of its writers say. In The Huffington Post, the musical genius Quincy Jones explains that Michael Jackson's problem...
  • Three Ancient Romanian Maps Bolster Accuracy Of "Persian Gulf" Name (Arabian Gulf?)

    01/15/2005 4:35:16 PM PST · by blam · 53 replies · 1,516+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | 1-15-2005
    Three ancient Romanian maps bolster accuracy of “Persian Gulf” name VIENNA (IRNA) -- Three ancient maps kept in a Romanian academy confirm the accuracy of the name Persian Gulf to denote waters off the southern coast of Iran, said an Iranian embassy official in Bucharest Friday. Speaking to IRNA, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that researches made by the Romanian academy uncovered a map called "Asiac Nova Descripto" dating back to 1584 in which the Persian Gulf is historically referred to as "Mar Mesendin Ol Sinus Persicus." The Romanian academy is one of the most important...
  • Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton strikes out (0 for 3 on the accuracy scoreboard)

    12/05/2004 6:31:54 AM PST · by Libloather · 42 replies · 3,035+ views
    Sen. Clinton strikes out The day before former President Clinton's library was dedicated in Little Rock, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrats' front-runner for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, gave Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren her first sit-down interview since her party got pummeled in the last election. If Mrs. Clinton aspires to become president, it would be helpful for her to get her facts straight. The junior senator from New York could begin by settling upon a consistent explanation for what happened to her party on Nov. 2. From one moment to the next in the interview, Mrs....
  • Soldiers in pajamas

    11/02/2004 8:28:16 AM PST · by MikeEdwards · 5 replies · 344+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | November 2, 2004 | Judi McLeod
    Accuracy in Media (AIM) founder Reed Irvine must have flashed one of his signature grins on September 21, 2004. While Irvine, felled by a stroke is missing from AIM action, the “Can Dan” campaign he launched against Dan Rather some 16 years ago, found new life. AIM members, staffers and supporters gathered outside the CBS News offices in Washington, D.C. to call for the firing of Dan Rather in the wake of the CBS News anchorman’s use of forged documents in a story designed to smear President George W. Bush. . . . . . At the anti-CBS protest, several...
  • Unintentional humor: Factcheck.org tries to bash Bush

    10/24/2004 4:21:17 AM PDT · by j. earl carter · 8 replies · 773+ views
    factcheck.org ^ | 10/19/04 | factcheck.org/unknown
    How Liberal is John Kerry? A new RNC ad claims Kerry is "the most liberal man in the Senate." Actually, his lifetime rating is 11th or lower, depending. October 19, 2004 Modified: October 19, 2004 Summary A Republican National Committee ad released Oct. 16 claims that Kerry is "the most liberal man in the Senate." It's true that vote rankings by the politically neutral magazine The National Journal rated Kerry "most liberal" in 2003 and in three earlier years during his first Senate term: 1986, 1988, and 1990. But over his entire career the Journal ranks Kerry the 11th most...
  • Are political polls accurate? This case study says not very...

    10/21/2004 11:04:28 AM PDT · by Wolfstar · 68 replies · 1,521+ views
    Ah, the omnipresent poll. The media punditocracy is addicted to using polls to tell us what "the American people feel" (never think) about everything from a president's so-called approval rating, to how a candidate's chances stack up against others in a race, to our "feelings" about various policy and social issues. Although the public has absolutely no way to evaluate the vast majority of polls for accuracy, most of us simply accept them as incontrovertible indicators of truth. Why? The answer probably is because we're told that polls are "scientific" since they use statistical-type analysis, and most of us tend...
  • IS THERE ANYONE AT CBS WITH ANY INTEGRITY AND COURAGE?

    09/12/2004 7:35:59 PM PDT · by nikos1121 · 62 replies · 1,747+ views
    September 12, 2004 | Nick Vlachos
    When asked what is the most important part of any news story, Joseph Pulitzer replied, "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy." I've always thought that whether it's selling newspapers, a documentary, a speech to the Rotary Club, or used cars, if you want to have viewers tomorrow try deceit, if you want to have viewers ten years from tomorrow, try honesty. I have read about as much as anyone on the subject of the Bush National Guard memos. In fact, starting today I'll stop the reading. The excellent discussions and technical research presented here and now in several major news sources leaves very...
  • Stem Cell News That Isn't Fit For Print

    12/03/2003 9:24:36 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies · 540+ views
    Weekly Standard ^ | 12/03/2003 | Wesley J. Smith
    The mainstream media is ignoring promising news about adult stem cell researchMEDIA BIAS is alive and well and busily promoting the brave new world. I personally experienced the phenomenon recently when I participated in an educational symposium in Frankfort, Kentucky (along with Drs. David Prentice and John Hubert). Our purpose was to provide empirical and moral support for pending state legislation that would outlaw human cloning in Kentucky. (Similar laws have already passed in Michigan, Iowa, North Dakota, and Arkansas.) We spoke about regenerative medicine (using cellular treatments to repair injured or damaged organs), the science of human cloning (how...
  • CARL LIMBACHER To Speak At ACCURACY IN MEDIA NYC LUNCHEON

    10/16/2003 4:03:34 PM PDT · by DeborahLambert · 13 replies · 207+ views
    Carl Limbacher, noted commentator, NewsMax contributor and author of blockbuster book, Hillary's Scheme, will be the featured speaker at a luncheon sponsored by Accuracy in Media. Date: Tuesday, October 21; Time: Noon; Location: Women's National Republican Club, 3 West 51st St., NYC; Cost: $35.00 RSVP: Lori Hopkins (202)364-4401,#110 E-mail: Lori.Hopkins@aim.org
  • Leftist Salon.Com Writer Joe Conason Is Joe Dirt

    09/24/2003 1:33:49 PM PDT · by ultimate_robber_baron · 7 replies · 1,597+ views
    The Hawaii Reporter ^ | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 | Stuart K. Hayashi
    Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...
  • 'Real West Wing' coming to Hobart William Smith (Clinton alumni alert)

    04/16/2003 8:22:29 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 5 replies · 211+ views
    Finger Lakes Times ^ | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 | By KEVIN DeVALK Times Staff Writer
    GENEVA — It’s a question that few people have the insight to answer: Is television’s “The West Wing” an accurate portrayal of life in the White House? The answer is yes, at least according to Hobart and William Smith Colleges President Mark Gearan. Gearan was the White House communications director during President Clinton’s first term. Gearan came to Geneva in 1999, just as the drama starring Martin Sheen went on the air, and he says he has been asked questions about the show ever since. Some of his former colleagues are coming to Geneva next week for a discussion on...
  • Zogby was NOT the most accurate in 2000 Presidential poll

    11/01/2002 1:14:58 PM PST · by for-q-clinton · 35 replies · 1,403+ views
    National Council on Public Polls (NCPP) ^ | January 3, 2001 | National Council on Public Polls (NCPP)
    January 3, 2001PRESIDENTIAL POLL PERFORMANCE 2000The accuracy of the election projections based on the pre-election polls of 2000 was surpassed only by the polls of 1976 and 1960, according to a study release today by the National Council on Public Polls. This year's final polls had an average error of 1.1 percentage points on the estimates for George W. Bush and Al Gore. The error on the third place finisher, Ralph Nader, was 1.3 percentage points. These results were based on the work of 10 polling organizations that used traditional methods for conducting their polls. Poll Bush/GoreError NaderError Harris Poll...