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Instapundit, Glen Raynolds being interviewed on C-SPAN

...The election coverage from Big Media has been unusually partisan this time around. As Newsweek's Evan Thomas famously remarked: "Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win... that's going to be worth maybe 15 points." ...Mr. Kerry, as even many Dems are admitting, is a weak candidate. But the big media advantage doesn't seem to have turned out to be as big as some thought. ...In a Boston Herald ...Mr. Kerry wrote: "On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in 'Apocalypse Now,' took my patrol boat into Cambodia...." But the story...

YOU KNOW, sometimes I feel like maybe I'm too harsh in my charges of media bias. Then I read accounts like this one from Baghdad, by the Daily Telegraph's correspondent Toby Harnden:

<p>On a modest street in the flats of Berkeley there's a little yellow bungalow behind a shabby fence. It's one of those places you expect to find a pit bull, but instead you find a bright young mayor of a city of about 70,000 liberal activists, writers, kibitzers, kidders and some folks who clearly have a lot of time on their hands.</p>

Editor falls to bloggers’ rapid poison Sarah Baxter, New York THE New York Times boasts on its masthead that it contains “all the news that’s fit to print”, but the internet is challenging its pre-eminence as a provider of news and opinion in America. A proliferating band of independent writers known as “bloggers” (short for web loggers) is pumping out personal takes on the news, and one of the most persistent themes of their websites has been that Howell Raines, executive editor of The New York Times, would have to resign or be sacked. The bloggers got their man last...

Posted 4/15/2002 10:48:32 PM by Glenn Reynolds THERE'S A POLL on the CAIR site asking if Ariel Sharon should be tried for war crimes. At the moment, it's 94% saying yes, with 513 votes. You may want to weigh in. Posted 4/16/2002 06:50:22 AM by Glenn Reynolds CAIR POLL UPDATE: As of this morning it's now 94% against trying Sharon for war crimes, 6% for, with 11, 951 voting. That's rather a change from last night. I'm predicting a sudden onset of "technical problems" in an hour or two, but I could be wrong. The power of the Blogosphere!