http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberalmedia/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419628/posts Warm weather is causing cold weather. Greenland is burning up, 50 degrees today! The Weather Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419628/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:14:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412310/posts Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. "Death panels." The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of government in health care to the bounds of acceptable political discussion. In a nod to the way technology has transformed politics, the statement wasn't made in an interview or a television ad. Sarah Palin posted it on her Facebook page. Her assertion — that the government would set up boards to determine whether seniors and the disabled were worthy of care —... St. Petersburg Times/Politifacts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412310/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418928/posts Upheaval in the media world continued in 2009, with 15,000 newspaper jobs lost, some glossy magazines killed and Washington bureaus either cut back or shuttered completely. And yet, online outlets sprouted — a few beefing up the ranks in D.C. — while more journalists embraced Twitter, blogs and platforms that don’t require ink on paper. While a number of this year’s more noticeable media blunders occurred through simple carelessness, some could be also considered growing pains in adjusting to changes in the media, such as reporters jumping the gun on Twitter, experimenting in video, cutting-and-pasting text from a blog or... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418928/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:23:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418819/posts Just had folks over...watching the New Years Eve countdown. Heard Carson Daly talking about great things happening including historic health care reform? Anyone else hear this? Turned channel after that... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418819/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418610/posts The Media Research Center has announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting granting Discover magazine’s Melissa Lafsky the dis-honor of “Quote of the Year.” On August 27, a few days after Senator Edward Kennedy’s death, Lafsky posted the following on the Huffington Post blog... THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418610/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417199/posts Wow: David Shuster really lets it all hang out on Twitter . . . In current tweets, the MSNBCer accuses Karl Rove of "hypocrisy," calls conservatives "wingnuts," claims Baucus wasn't wasted, and denounces Drudge as "repulsive" for supposedly suggesting otherwise. Excerpts from Shuster's current Twitter feed [screencap after the jump]: * Thank you Wingnuts! By mentioning my tweets, you are bringing more attention to @karlrove hypocrisy * Wingnuts, just because you want to believe something is true does not make it so. Obama wasn't born in Kenya. Baucus wasn't inebriated. * Baucus speech was at 430pm in the afternoon. He... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417199/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416952/posts Less than a year ago, during yet another public discussion about the future of traditional media, I said that it seemed extremely unlikely that, for instance, Newsweek would last another five years, provoking guffaws among blogger types and stout denials from the magazine (i.e. a minor kerfuffle). Newsweek and its parent, the Washington Post Co., announced yesterday a significant cut in its rate base, a further round of buyouts and layoffs, and a plan to make an already anorexic magazine even thinner. The Washington Post Co., for good measure, added its own bad news and bleak outlook. My prediction about... Newser.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416952/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:19:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416920/posts McClatchy Newspapers is the alleged “news” organization that runs terrorist propaganda out of Iraq as legitimate news. It’s Washington editor tried very hard to push local McClatchy reporters in North Carolina to write damaging stories on Blackwater. It hired anonymous Iraqis during the Iraq War to write lots of unverifiable stories about the horrors of American soldiers. Today, in another example of its bias, its national news feed runs the headline Who’s running the TSA? No one, thanks to Sen. Jim DeMint. Compare that to the Washington Post, which ran the identical story with the headline “Republican senator DeMint holds... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416920/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:31:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416885/posts If there was ever a textbook example of kissing up to a host in a television interview, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., gave a demonstration on MSNBC's "The Ed Show." During the Dec. 28 broadcast, Moran, who represents a district that is just a stone's throw away from the U.S. Capitol, encouraged "The Ed Show" host Ed Schultz to keep pushing for the public option as part of health care reform, even though it is losing support as being essential in the U.S. House of Representatives. "You've got to keep up the pressure, Ed," Moran said. "You know, they pay much... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416885/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416540/posts Lib Reporter Says Protesters Were Asking For It When the Media Labeled Them “Teabaggers” Monday, December 28, 2009 Jim Hoft The corruption of the state-run media continues… Liberal Chicago Tribune reporter Clarence Page says old ladies carrying protest signs are “asking for it” when they are called “teabaggers“: NewsBusters reported: The bitterness toward the tea party movement continues to go on and on. Case in point – Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, who on the Dec. 27 broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” deemed it “The Most Defining Political Moment” of 2009, but refused to call it the “tea party.” Instead,... GatewayPundit.FirstThings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416540/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:07:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416147/posts With trillions of dollars at stake in the battle over global warming, now would be the time for the press to closely scrutinize the claims of those who would reorganize the world's economy from farm to factory and laboratory to living room. And the Climategate scandal - where leaked e-mails and dodgy computer programs from the University of East Anglia raise powerful new questions about the role of politics in climate science - would be the perfect opportunity to explore what is going on behind the scenes. That's not happening.... [snip] Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416147/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415730/posts Remember how outraged the left became when Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, showed President George W. Bush not issuing a public statement on the Twin Tower attacks for several minutes until after the school children finished reading the Pet Goat story? Well, it is now almost two days since the Nigerian terrorist working at the behest of Al Qaeda attempted to blow up a passenger jet and still no public response from the current president, Barack Obama. According to the associate editor of The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, the reason for Obama's lack of response is that it is part of... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415730/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415187/posts Check this entry: Naughty: Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), a vacuum for oil industry political contributions whose nonsensical denials of climate-change science in the face of vanishing ice sheets and decaying coral reefs make him Earth's Public Enemy No. 1. Nice: Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who are working diligently to craft a bipartisan climate bill despite obstructionism from the likes of Inhofe. Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415187/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:07:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414232/posts The New York Daily News is demonstrating that PDA's (Palin Derangement Awards) just never go out of style - celebrating yet another triumph in liberal media condescension by judging Sarah Palin to be one of 2009's worst celebrity parents. Palin shares the limelight with the selfless and humble parents of the balloon boy, David Hasselhoff, the Pez dispenser emulating Octomom, and Courtney Love. Having recently secured Politifact's ‘Lie of the Year', in which one is seemingly bestowed the honor of liar simply for pointing out obvious questions involving a so-called ‘death panel' known as the Independent Medicare Advisory Board -... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414232/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413431/posts The morning broadcasters, Jack Bishop and Rich Hancock, announced this morning that their organization,"Rational Radio" would be off the air as of Jan 1, 2010. Rational Radio leased this station 24/7 from the Multicultural Broadcast Corp. The rest of the local talkers on this station were discussing their plans thruout the day. Most of them trashing broadcast radio and corporations in general. They are claiming that broadcast radio is dead and Internet Radio is where it is at. 1360AM Dallas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413431/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413411/posts CLICK ON ABOVE LINK FOR THE COMPLETE AWARD LIST. THERE ARE 16 CATEGORIES SAMPLE HERE : The Coronation of the Messiah Award for Fawning Inaugural Coverage Winner Bill Weir (66 points) “We know that wind can make a cold day feel colder, but can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer? It seems to be the case because regardless of the final crowd number estimates, never have so many people shivered so long with such joy. From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.” — ABC’s Bill Weir on World News, January 20... Media Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413411/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:54:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts The whitewashing of Ted Kennedy continued on the cover of Parade magazine, a supplement to many Sunday newspapers around the country. Dotson Rader interviewed Victoria Kennedy, the second wife of the late senator. Decades of womanizing and a woman’s death at Chappaquiddick after Kennedy left the scene of an accident weren’t really noteworthy. One large bold pull quote read "Nobody had a better sense of what was right than Teddy." "Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne" was not a sentence that appeared in the article. The other large pull quote from Mrs. Kennedy was "He was elected to make... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412133/posts Does Ed Schultz read my blog? I have long held MSNBC host Ed Schultz's erratic behavior stems from his political and professional status, envy at those whose careers surpass his. As David Swindle noted in the roll-out of this series, "Ben’s posts on Schultz are collected and all future articles will be collected here under the series name 'Genius Envy' a play on a well-known Freudian term." I came up with the name "Genius Envy" to highlight the way much of Ed's incendiary rhetoric seems to be rooted in his offended masculinity. I was gratified to see my thesis... NewsRealBlog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412133/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:41:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411976/posts WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! The History Channel has gone to the dark side! It's now airing unvarnished COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA by the anti-American POS Howard Zinn! Have you seen that "The People Speak" crap? I am calling my cable company and demanding that it drop the History Channel from our basic service. If others want to pay for communist indoctrination, that's fine. But I DO NOT want this stuff! History.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411976/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:21:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411803/posts The country is slowly waking up to the threat that Islam brings to America, but Muslims also see this and now they are looking to manipulate the media. By “teaching” them what Islam is about using the knowledge of Islamic scholars. Scholar Bukhari and those at Al-Azhar (the highest learning Islamic school in the world), teach us that Islam is a religion of war that allows the taking of sex slaves. Will they teach the journalists these aspects of Islam? Of course not. Logan's Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411803/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:58:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2410319/posts The American Mainstream media and Washington D.C. are dominated today by a Leftist, Secular and Godless mindset. That isn't any secret. Not even the unregenerate (unbelievers) will disagree with that. As Lucifer (Satan) controls more and more of the Media today - with these Godless surrogates and talking heads - his agenda is moving along quite rapidly and increasing exponentially. Never in the history of this nation has the Main Stream Liberal Media pushed and supported a President’s leftist agenda as this one we have today. Today Lucifer’s American Leftist Media is ram-rodding, bulldozing, redefining and cultivating the U.S. ground... The Ignorant Fishermen Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2410319/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410606/posts NEW YORK -- Considered one way, Charles Gibson 's career in TV news seems to be a model of stability: 34 years logged with one employer, ABC. There, he did his job well and rose to the top echelon of his profession, forming a firm bond with his viewers and offering his gracious signoff, "I hope you had a good day." On the other hand, Gibson, who Friday retires from the "World News" anchor desk and from ABC as a full-time employee, is bowing out as more than an admired network news star. At 66, he's a proven utility player,... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410606/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409815/posts TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Concerned about Second Amendment rights, folks bought guns and ammunition in record numbers after President Barack Obama's election. "This is a right that a lot of politicians, a lot of lawmakers want to take away," NRA spokesperson Rachel Parsons said. "They want to curb the rights of law abiding people under a notion that it's going to reduce crime." Now the Bloomington Herald-Times newspaper published a database of Indiana gun permit holders, searchable by which streets and cities they live. WTHI-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409815/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408646/posts A localized media frenzy has ensued after a Catholic reporter was let go from his 19-year position at a Maine newspaper for voicing his opinion against same-sex “marriage” and the campaign to legalize it in Maine. According to an article by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Larry Grard, a former employee of the Morning Sentinel, was sent a mass email from the pro-gay rights organization, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), following the repeal of the same-sex “marriage” law in Maine during the mid-term elections on Nov. 4. In the email, Trevor Thomas, spokesman for the HRC, voiced his disappointment with the... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408646/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:41:35 GMT