http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/yellowjournalism/ en-us Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:00:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400233/posts When Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis told the New York Times in a recent interview that gay people don't get to heaven, he broke not one, but two cardinal rules of politics in a single sentence. With a simple phrase, Davis breached the separation between church and state and grabbed the electrified "third-rail" in Bay Area politics with both hands. He told the reporter that gays are "committing sins and those sins will keep them out of heaven." After the Nov. 20 article, the mayor claimed his words were taken out of context. The Times responded by providing an audio link... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400233/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:00:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390046/posts "But as I realized back in my Wasilla mayor days, life is too short to hold a grudge." By the time the reader reaches that pronouncement on page 321 of "Going Rogue," Sarah Palin has nursed enough grudges to last a lifetime. She describes the McCain campaign's chief strategist Steve Schmidt's "rotund physique" and his penchant for smoking to "keep his cognitive connections humming along." She claims that her Troopergate nemesis Hollis French earned the nickname "Gunny" after he listed himself as a Marine Corps private when he "merely attended a weeks-long military course during college." Media strategist Nicolle Wallace... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390046/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389356/posts The photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek. That photographer, Brian Adams, could not immediately be reached, and his agent, Kelly Price, declined to comment, saying, "I keep all of my clients' business private." But a spokeswoman for Runner's World confirms that Adams's contract contained a clause stipulating that his photos of Palin would be under embargo for a period of one year following publication -- meaning until August 2010. "Runner's World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image," the spokeswoman said. "It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer's stock agency, without... Citizen Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389356/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:11:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387625/posts Gay newspapers in several U.S. cities, including the Washington Blade, shut down on Monday, as the company that owned them, Window Media, abruptly went out of business. Window Media had been in serious financial trouble, but employees said they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation. “We found out when two of the corporate officers were waiting for us when we got to work this morning,” said Kevin Naff, editor of the Blade, a 40-year-old paper that was one of the most important publications written for a gay audience. “It’s not a complete surprise. The abruptness of it... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387625/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:21:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387120/posts Newsweek intentionally left out Obama from the list (that he would save the world.) And no surprise, 3 of the 10 are Republicans (or maybe more.) Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387120/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:48:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387471/posts Virginia Muslims are calling on McDonnell (R) to disavow comments made by the Virginia Beach religious broadcaster last week in response to the shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., in which Robertson asserted that Islam is "not a religion" but a "violent political system" and that those who practice it should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party. The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387471/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385846/posts Freepers!...we're losing the image war. Photographs of the wounded at Fort Hood do not circulate among the major media. The wounded in Vietnam were commonly depicted in a way which maximized the public disgust with the war effort but the victims of jihadists are not shown in such an emotional way. The blood of civil rights demonstrators and marchers were commonly shown in the '60s and the image of the murdered and mutilated Emmett Till is a common icon to this day. But there is a lack of circulation of 9-11 pics (outside conservative media), mall shootings, Jihad victims, and... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385846/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384833/posts Islam Remains Innocent thelastcrusade.org A conservative media watchdog organization says for the most part, the mainstream media networks have downplayed the Muslim connections with terrorism in the Fort Hood massacre.The Media Research Center (MRC) says that when authorities first announced the Fort Hood shooter was Major Nidal Malik Hasan, CBS and NBC purposefully avoided mentioning his name for fear of offending Muslims. The Center points out that ABC's Charles Gibson suggested Hasan was a "Muslim convert," which was not a correct statement, but adds at least Gibson was not trying to play "hide and seek" with the facts.The MRC... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384833/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383947/posts Dan Calabrese notices a scolding tone coming from the Associated Press in reporting its latest polling. It headlines the report by noting that “a grouchy public [is] sticking with Obama,” having seen a 54% job approval rating in its survey — but some bad numbers on the issues. Does the AP report those falling levels of support as a consequence of Barack Obama doing a poor job? No, as emphases from Dan and myself show: The public grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, including war and the economy, continuing the slippage that has... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383947/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:07:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382377/posts It’s an Obama infomercial! No, a Lesbian Night on the Fox channel? Wait, it’s a soft porn comedy hour on a major American television network. Actually, it's none of the above. It’s the premiere of the Wanda Sykes Show, a new one-hour program competing in the late night lineup. But at this juncture, it’s hard to tell what the show really is. The much buzzed “late-night show by the first gay black woman” with warnings of adult language and content conjures up an array of possibilities. Sadly, none of them really go anywhere in this perplexing presentation masquerading as hip.... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382377/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:37:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370808/posts Leah Rabin, the late widow of assassinated premier Yitzhak Rabin, used words such as "nightmare," "monstrosity," "corrupt" and "liar" to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in letters she wrote over a decade ago that have recently been obtained by Haaretz. HAARETZ.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370808/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:20:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368376/posts Amid the worst recession in generations, Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, got a thumbs up from the Vatican overturning a century of Catholic hostility to his creed. Marx, who predicted that capitalism would be destroyed by its internal contradictions, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church, The Times newspaper said on Thursday. The British daily, quoting the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said Marx’s early critiques of capitalism had highlighted the “social alienation” felt by... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368376/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364785/posts In the wake of the news that radio host Rush Limbaugh was hoping to buy a chunk of the St. Louis Rams, Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a column containing the now-infamous quote, supposedly from Limbaugh, regarding the notion that slavery "had its merits." We first became aware of the quote not from perusing the copy of the Post-Dispatch that arrives in our mailbox every morning in West Virginia, but because Limbaugh mentioned the issue during the Monday broadcast of his radio show. (Indeed, if Limbaugh had never talked about the quotes on his radio show, we... nbc sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364785/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363719/posts Rick Sanchez: i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad. National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363719/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359019/posts American taxpayers are planning to storm more than 100 mainstream media offices and stations across the nation next week in protest of a media blackout of the growing movement against Obama administration policies. Following sparse coverage of a massive 9/12 march on Washington, talk show host Rush Limbaugh urged citizens to bring their protests to the front doors of major media outlets. "The media [are] no longer reporters. They are repeaters," Limbaugh said on his Sept. 14 show. "There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered, and tiny turnouts by the Left that... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359019/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356970/posts Limbaugh is going to change the name of the team from the Rams to the Nappy-Headed Hos..Rush Limbaugh might one day own the St. Louis Rams. Hell, sometimes these column thingies write themselves. The only thing that could make this news even more fantastic is if in his first two acts as owner Limbaugh traded for Donovan McNabb and made Jesse Jackson the head coach. Followed by Ann Coulter's hiring as general manager. My head exploded after hearing this Limbaugh news. How exactly will Limbaugh address the team after he purchases them? "I just want to introduce myself and say... WashPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356970/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:12:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352309/posts A libertarian non-profit organization in Washington today announced it was filing suit against the Obama administration for failing to adequately disclose global warming documents. As we reported two weeks ago the Competitive Enterprise Institute deemed inadequate the Treasury Department's response to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on cap-and-trade. Months after the FOIA request, Treasury responded by giving CEI five documents and emails, when the group had expected 50. "Your response fails any reasonable test for compliance with FOIA and constitutes an effective denial of our request," CEI's Christopher Horner stated in the notice of appeal filed with... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352309/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347388/posts It’s not just conservatives who accuse the media of showing a liberal bias. A new survey from the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute shows that 89.3 percent of Americans believe the national media played a sizable role in helping to elect President Obama. And 69.9 percent of respondents view the national news media as intent on promoting the Obama presidency, while 26.5 percent disagreed, and 3.6 percent were unsure. More than half of those surveyed, 56.4 percent, said the news media are promoting Obama’s healthcare reform without objective criticism. Another 39.3 percent disagreed, and 4.3 percent were unsure. A majority,... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347388/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:36:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346497/posts The current debate over whether Barack Obama’s opponents are motivated by his policy or his race dominated the Sunday news shows, with a general consensus emerging that policy was the main factor. It was nonetheless conceded that racism was a disturbing presence in many of the protest events. Sadly, no Republican spokesperson on the shows said anything to condemn the organizers that allowed and may have encouraged the ugly manifestations of racism. Many of the recent protests reminded me of rallies last fall at which Sarah Palin would talk about “taking back our America” and accuse Obama of “palling around... Macleans http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346497/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:11:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345563/posts A couple in California turned over their 2001 Nissan X-Terra for the Cash for Clunkers program, but a few weeks later they discovered that the dealer decided to put it back up for sale instead of destroying it as per the program's rules. The dealership says it never asked for the government credit and decided instead to treat the X-Terra as a trade-in. They never told that to the customers, however, who thought the X-Terra would be destroyed. The customers told the U.S. Department of Transportation that they participated in the program specifically to get the 17 MPG X-Terra off... The Consumerist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345563/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:46:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344286/posts Civility … Nuance. Just much too much in one short sound bite. NBC’s David Gregory wonders if protesters are budding Tim McVays … Obama calls for civil discourse (I’m sorry?) and then says protesters just want TV time ( I know, I know) …But we start with … “We have examples of anti government violence in the mid 90’s .. do you worry about that?”. Yup … those grandmas and grandpas and housewives I saw … no question … I can see the link between them and Tim McVay. Scary. http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344286/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:01:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340268/posts NBC's Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd does not fault the state-run media for ignoring the communist-Truther Van Jones controversy. He says it was a waste of time. For the record-- Van Jones was in charge of doling out $80 billion of Stimulus money to selected green projects. He was certainly no low level czar as Chuck Todd suggested. Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340268/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:36:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335828/posts Ill will against former Vice President Dick Cheney still runs high in some circles. So high, in fact, that when the University of Wyoming decided to name an international student center after him, Suzanne Pelican began circulating a petition against it last year. One year later, that petition has earned 150 signatures and an Associated Press story. In a story titled “Protest brews over Cheney center at Univ. of Wyo.” AP reporter Mead Gruver writes: Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335828/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:30:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330323/posts More than $10bn in advertising disappeared from US media markets in the first six months of this year, according to new data that show intense pressure on media owners and ad agencies as they search for other business models. Preliminary figures from Nielsen show a 15.4 per cent year-on-year decline in US advertising revenues, the largest drop for any period in the decade since the marketing and media measurement group began compiling such reports. The study showed sharp differences in the behaviour of different media and product categories, with cable television the only medium on which ad spend increased, up... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330323/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:36:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328226/posts Picture a recovering alcoholic falling off the wagon. First he says he can handle a few drinks... But eventually he turns mean... As a drunk is to alcohol, the Bush administration is to budget deficits. During the 2000 campaign George W. Bush often pledged to maintain fiscal responsibility... [H]is people said they could cut taxes, pay for new programs... and still pay off most of the federal government's debt... Now the budget director, Mitch Daniels, has admitted the obvious: The federal government faces the prospect of large deficits as far as the eye can see. And sure enough, the drunk... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328226/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:27:06 GMT