Why is America so crazy?

7-28-2008 • BrasscheckTV

Former Marine and Chief WMD Inspector Scott Ritter makes a pretty good standup comic with a good backdrop in this video. Tweet! Yuck!

MSM Stealing Blog Content: Times Joining Growing MSM Trend?

July 27, 2008 • Mondoreb

Imagine how pleased we were when the London Times quoted our recent interview--several times! Pleasure turned to pain when the Times didn't credit us, however. After ignoring our letters, we did some research. Is this a new MSM business model.

John Edwards Affair: Interview with David Perel, Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer

07-25-2008 • Mondoreb

A DBKP Exclusive Interview with David Perel, Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer on the John Edwards scandal, the difficulties involved, media disapproval, and how the MSM got scooped again by a supermarket tabloid.

New York Times to raise newsstand price to $1.50

07-23-2008 • www.breitbart.com

Last increase came a year ago. The NYT recently announced a 4.5% increase in home delivery prices for the paper that takes effect this month, the second bump in a year. The increases helped overall circulation revenue rise 2.5 percent in the latest q

New York Times 2Q profit drops 82 percent

07-23-2008 • www.breitbart.com

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.

Court tosses FCC 'wardrobe malfunction' fine

07-21-2008 • RawStory.com

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."

Barack Obama, Mainstream Media: Obama’s Excellent Adventure

07-20-2008 • Mondoreb

Need more proof that the Mainstream Media isn’t the PR wing of the Democrat Party? Look no further than their coverage of Obama’s Excellent Adventure.

4 Cleared in Madrid Train Bombing (how much will the MSM cover this?)

07-17-2008 • New York Times

A Spanish court overturned the convictions of four men and upheld the acquittal of a fifth on Thursday in the convoluted legal proceedings relating to the 2004 Madrid commuter train bombings that killed 191 people in the deadliest attacks by Islamic

Media Death March

07-16-2008 • Wired Magazine

The depressed newspaper industry is old news of course but Alan Mutter, who blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur, noticed a depressing pattern in the last report of "short" market activity: there were some pretty big bets that newspaper stoc

Chuck Shumer Happy MSM is Obsessed with Recession

07-15-2008 • Nancy Morgan

Weekly culture roundup focuses on the Mainstream Media, Chuck Shumer's role in the housing meltdown, recession and other bizarre national goings-on.

Dick Cheney: Tony Snow 'the best'

07-14-2008 • by - Mark Silva swamppolitics

Asked about Snow's "brand of conservativism,'' Cheney said: "I frankly agreed with him on nearly everything, and I'm generally viewed as pretty conservative.

Jim Cramer: The Flip-Flop that Ought to be Illegal

07-14-2008 • YouTube

How can it be that Bear Stearns Hedge Fund guys are going to JAIL for their misdeeds, but, Jim Cramer gets away with THIS?

What We Call the News (another good JibJab)

06-30-2008 • JibJab

Celebrities in rehab, political punditry and a mauling at the zoo - this is what we're calling news these days! This funny satire on broadcast news features Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and the rest of your favorite talking heads

TIME for Socialism

6-23-2008 • Ludvig Von Mises Institute

Anyone who is still wondering why the so-called "mainstream media" was so hostile toward Congressman Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination will find an answer in the June 2 issue of Time magazine.

‘Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier.’

6-19-2008 • Think Progress

CBS’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan criticized the lack of media attention to the Iraq war. She said she felt responsible for the fact that “no one really understands” what is happening in Iraq. She also said that the soldiers there “feel fo

The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them

06-17-2008 • nielsenhayden.com

The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give the AP money in return for “permission”

Bury Tim Russert Already!!!!<br>by Butler Shaffer

6-15-2008 • LewRockwell

As I write these words, we are into the third day of a seemingly endless period of mourning for Tim Russert. ... there is something telling about the state of journalism in this country in the way his death is being transformed into a national traged

Michael Crichton, Vindicated: His 1993 prediction of mass-media extinction

6-8-2008 • Salon

The mediasaurs had about a decade to live, he wrote, before technological advances—"artificial intelligence agents roaming the databases, downloading stuff I am interested in, and assembling for me a front page"—swept them under.

Obama, Mainstream Media: Right Color Was More Important than Right Stuff

06-08-2008 • Mondoreb

Last spring, the liberal Mainstream Media was more interested in whether Barack Obama was "black enough". "The Right Color"--or "The Right Shade of Color"--was more important than asking whether a rookie senator had

How the Media Abandoned Iraq

6-5-2008 • Alternet

The editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it

CNN reporter talks of pressure to be patriotic

5-29-2008 • AP

CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin said Thursday she was referring to her time spent at MSNBC when she said she felt pressure not to report stories critical of the Bush administration during the time leading up to the Iraq war.

Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war

5-29-2008 • by Glenn Greenwald

Here is an absolutely amazing link to a video where the three network news anchors appeared jointly on The Today Show this morning and were forced by McClellan's book to address whether the media failed in its duties in the run-up to the war

Barack Obama: His Uncle May Have Been in Attic--But Not Auschwitz

5-27-2008 • Mondoreb

Prevarication or gaffe? Barack Obama and the whereabouts of his uncle won’t interest the Mainstream Media. Why it’s dangerous–even if Obama is “their guy”.

Obama: Pundits Explain the Meaning of Sweetie to the Rest of Us

05-21-2008 • Nancy Morgan

Barack Obama calls a reporter “Sweetie” and pundits the nation over scramble to explain to the cretins living in flyover country what he really meant.

Montana Bakken Oil Field: Good News for U.S. Consumers, Bad News for MSM

05-16-2008 • Mondoreb

In a place called Richland County, Montana - a HUGE oil field may be holding up to 503 BILLION barrels of sweet crude--in a place where more millionaires are being created per capita than anywhere else in America.

Mainstream Media: Who Knew the Clintons Had Scandals?

05-13-2008 • Nancy Morgan

A strange thing happened the day after the NC and Indiana primaries: the MSM suddenly discovered the Clintons had a shady past.

Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses were 'basically pro-war'

5-8-2008 • rawstory

MSNBC's Chris Matthews gave a speech last night at Harvard's Institute of Politics Forum where he made a few eye-opening confessions:

ABC News to launch on-campus bureaus

5-7-2008 • Reuters

ABC News, looking to bolster its connection with younger viewers, plans to open bureaus this autumn on the campuses of five universities across the United States, the network said.

We deserve the full truth about 9/11<br>by Sen. Karen Johnson

5-3-2008 • Arizona Republic

Regarding "Drinking the 9/11 Kool-Aid" (Editorial, April 24): After three government investigations and more than six years, we still don't have answers on 9/11.