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EXCERPT Well, the mystery may be over. A woman who said her name was, in fact, Ellie Light called this morning into the radio show of Michael Smerconish, a national talker based in Philadelphia who has been friendly to Obama, to clear things up. "I'm only me," she said, identifying herself as a traveling nurse who works for 13-week stretches at hospitals around the country, and whose primary residence is in Southern California. "I need to own up – I did misrepresent my home town in some places," Light told Smerconish. Her logic in faking the addresses is one familiar...

Concerned that “casual” and “irregular” so-called journalists are “confusing” the American people. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation that attempts to “draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate purveyors of news.” The legislation, Senate Bill 448, would define a legitimate journalist as a person working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, a recognized publisher or broadcaster of news. Those falling outside this definition would be denied the privileges granted to established news media under freedom of the press. “The American people need to be protected from being misled by unauthorized sources,” Feinstein...

Sarah Palin has breathed some life into the word "lamestream". We've been using "lamestream" here at Free Republic for quite some time. I looked up the word in the Urban Dictionary and found Sarahs use of the word was not defined. So I sent in this definition: "An insult directed at the dominant commercial news services for bias in covering politics". They turned it down!

'It's over': Ann Coulter banned for life by NBC 'We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama' Posted: January 05, 2009 8:25 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily NBC has reportedly banned best-selling author Ann Coulter for life after abruptly canceling an appearance on the "Today" show to promote her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America." "We are just not going to have her on any more, it's over," a top network source told the Drudge Report. This afternoon, NBC explained it abruptly cut Coulter from its planned broadcast tomorrow morning, because...

The Muslim religious holiday Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, is meant to commemorate Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son on God's orders. But now the holiday could also be associated with something else: the execution of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

EL SALVADOR, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On April 9, New York Times reporter Jack Hitt produced what may be called a 'hit piece' against the pro-life movement in El Salvador.  The piece, laden with scare tactics, culminates in his tale of woe of a woman who he says had an illegal abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant and was sentenced to thirty years in prison.  The only problem with the story is that the woman was found guilty of strangling her full-term baby shortly after her birth.Writing in an editorial in one of the largest papers in...

NEW YORK - There will be a little less "Free Speech" and more news on Katie Couric's "CBS Evening News." The controversial opinion segment will be cut back to a couple of times a week, sometimes less, and feature more people whose opinions aren't already well known, Rome Hartman, the broadcast's executive producer, said Monday. The cutback was first reported in the Washington Post. It was the most experimental segment on Couric's broadcast, currently third behind NBC and ABC in the ratings. "We did learn as we went along that some worked better than others, although I found most of...

I used to wonder just how desperate Americas socialist left would become once completely rejected from power in both houses of congress, most state governor mansions, the White House and the Supreme Court. I used to try to imagine just how far the lamestream press would go to unseat politicians at odds with their anti-America socialist one-world open-pervert-society agenda.

Lousy circulation numbers may help explain why The Oregonian's felt a need to move to "high-definition Sundays," the mid-September makeover much mocked by the paper's reporters. The O's Sunday circulation numbers for the six-month period ending Sept. 30 fell 2.5 percent, to 394,992 Sunday subscribers, a number below the 400,000-subscriber figure that triggers higher ad rates. Not that The Oregonian was alone in the decline: National numbers reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed only one of 17 large papers (The New York Times) gaining readers on Sundays.

WHO IN THE White House knew about DITSUM No. 044-02 and when did they know it? That's the newly declassified smoking-gun document, originally prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in February 2002 but ignored by President Bush. Its declassification this weekend blows another huge hole in Bush's claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available when he pitched the invasion of Iraq as a way to prevent an Al Qaeda terror attack using weapons of mass destruction. The report demolished the credibility of the key Al Qaeda informant the administration relied on to make its claim that a...

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday afternoon repeatedly prodded reluctant Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings to blame racism for delays in rescuing hurricane victims in New Orleans. Blitzer asked Cummings on The Situation Room: "Do you believe, if it was, in fact, a slow response, as many now believe it was, was it in part the result of racism?" When Cummings demurred from such a blanket accusation, Blitzer wouldn't give up: "There are some critics who are saying, and I don't know if you're among those, but people have said to me, had this happened in a predominantly white community,...

I don't know if I invented this idea or not... Maybe I heard it after Abu Ghraib, or after the world was aflutter over Baghdad Bob, or after they canonized Rachel Corrie, or any of the numerous occasions the MSM goes out of their way to endanger Americans and promote terrorists.

Dan Rather was lucky he wasn't on the air when it occured because surely he would have breathlesly relayed the details. Many mainstream media outlets were duped by a picture of a toy soldier that was purported to be an American troop held hostage by terrorists in Iraq. Media outlets such as MSNBC and the Associated Press relayed the claims of the terrorists for two hours before they were shown to be false. As with Memogate, it was online message boards that found the evidence: At 2:20pm EST, a poster on Militaryphotos.net posted an image of the GI Joe action...

The commercials are as patriotic as those created for any presidential candidate. As wistful piano chords provide the soundtrack, a parade of Rockwellian images - front porches, mothers and children, construction workers and an American flag - passes by. These ads, however, were not created for President Bush or Senator John Kerry, but for Peter Jennings, the longtime anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight.'' And they are a result of an extremely rare moment in television news. On Dec. 2, for the first time in 21 years, one of the big broadcast networks will replace the anchor of its evening...

I just saw Petah "Lettuce Roll" Jennings mention the John Kerry intern scandal on ABC World News Tonight.It seems like the lamestream media finally realizes it cannot avoid this story.

CNN anchor shares thoughts on 9/11 2003-10-14 By Mick Hinton The Oklahoman NORMAN -- National news anchor Aaron Brown said Monday his thoughts after 9/11 were not unlike those of hundreds of Oklahomans after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City. "Critics of the media say we are talking about 'their country.' It is our country. I lost friends in 9/11; my child's life was changed by 9/11," said Brown, CNN night news anchor. Brown, who spoke Monday night at the University of Oklahoma, was the keynote speaker for a two-day conference on "The Media, the...

There's a reason our television sets so outgun us, spraying us with trillions of bits while we respond only with the laughable trickles from our remotes. To enable signals to get through intact, the government has to divide the spectrum of frequencies into bands, which it then licenses to particular broadcasters. NBC has a license and you don't. Thus, NBC gets to bathe you in "Friends," followed by a very special "Scrubs," and you get to sit passively on your couch. It's an asymmetric bargain that dominates our cultural, economic and political lives -- only the rich and famous can...