Negative Space: media bias
- (Joe) Scarborough Fair
- The news media’s bias has gone from ideological to cult—a cult based on a person, not an issue or a collection of issues. They don’t care what President Obama does, says, or doesn’t do. They care only about making sure he is re-elected, regardless of the cost.
- ABC News: Toyota targeted Gabby Giffords!
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Diane Sawyer ABC News special claims Toyota targeted popular congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
- Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls
- A member of the “Know-It-All Syndicate” offers advice to Sarah Palin on how to step down from politics and return to the kitchen.
- Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
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Bernard Goldberg talks out of school about how alien the average person seems to the media elite, and tries to help us see why broadcast journalists sometimes appear to be from another planet.
- Bob Filner media post-mortem
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Filner’s out, but the media’s war on women continues.
- California drought caused by lack of rain and progressive government, but mostly progressive government
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Why does Donald Trump’s style work? Because the media has been trying to suppress conservative views for so long in order to allow crises to fester for Democrats to exploit. Now that Trump is also exploiting them, they don’t realize that their old playbook of ridicule isn’t working.
- The candidate we deserve
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Do we deserve these two candidates? Well, we voted for them, and we listened to the media that pushed them on us.
- Clinton calls for institutionalizing, curing, Trump supporters
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After Republican Donald Trump calls for a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s email server, Hillary Clinton calls for beating Trump supporters. Journalists immediately investigate voter who asked question about health care.
- CNN Jeopardy in Occupy Denver
- The CNN reporter, talking to Lt. Robert King, asked “Is it fair to say the trouble-makers are not necessarily affiliated with the Occupy movement?”
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- Confirmation journalism and the death penalty
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Iterative journalism is like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland: “Sentence first, verdict after.” The Elements of Journalism praises David Protess’s project that railroaded a mentally disabled man into prison for fourteen years, because it served their bias.
- COVID Lessons: Journalistic Delusions and the Madness of Politicians
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COVID-19 was real. The crisis surrounding it was entirely manufactured. Everything we did took a manageable disease and turned it into a killer. And the very worst was believing a media we knew was lying.
- Death-page 2000
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Ad-blocking is no longer boring. Don’t just block those ads. Shoot them down like the space debris they are!
- Divisive double standards
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It’s a hypocritical form of divisiveness, calling for togetherness and reason whenever your side commits a crime, and engaging in unreasoning partisanship when you can find some way to pin it on others.
- Dr. Kookie, You’re Right!
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Mike Royko’s final collection of essays, from the second half of the eighties, highlights his bias as much as his great writing.
- Election lessons: be careful what you wish for
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Republicans should learn from the Democrats’ mistake of the primary season: be careful what you wish for, you might just get… half of it. They wanted Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
- The Elements of Journalism
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Now that the Internet empowers readers to check the veracity of news reports, journalists need to come up with more and better justifications for their bias.
- End of media; to delete this media…
- There will be a crisis: but this time they got caught manufacturing their crisis. And it’s a crisis of a most despicable kind: falsely tying a candidate to child molestation.
- Evil and religion in the modern media
- The press betrays its religion in its choice of news sources.
- The evolution of news to candy
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When you remove the news from the newsstand, what do you get?
- False positives, the Internet, and the grievance media
- The ability of the modern mass media to search the entire population ensures that most stories are wrong.
- Florence Foster Jenkins is Hillary Clinton
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There are too many coincidences to avoid the conclusion that Florence Foster Jenkins, the movie, is a satirical attack on the relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton and her sexless partnership with the press.
- Greta Van Susteren calls out media on hypocritical misogyny
- Our media is a bunch of misogynistic hypocrites.
- Has Trump forced the media into a Kobayashi Maru?
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The Kobayashi Maru is that the media wants to be able to continue lying and be believed. People don’t distrust them because of Trump. People distrust them because they keep lying. It is a self-caused problem.
- Hillary Clinton and husband accused of sexual assault
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Between them, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, William, stand accused of sexual harassment or assault against at least eight women, and have paid settlements of at least $850,000.
- The Hillary Clinton e-mail ‘scandal’ that isn’t
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There’s no there here, and it doesn’t affect her campaign. Nothing in the law says felons can’t be President.
- A horse chestnut or a newspaper or a news show?
- Abraham Lincoln once famously asked whether a horse chestnut or a chestnut horse are the same thing. The mainstream media have started dropping a whole lot of horse chestnuts over Sarah Palin. It’s hard to imagine this is anything but bias, but it could be abject stupidity.
- How biased is Fox News?
- I know it’s cliched to talk about media bias, but this interview struck me because it is supposedly an example of the most conservative bias you’ll find on the mainstream media.
- How many fingers, America?
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The Orwellianization of the left continues.
- How much is the media ignoring Elizabeth Warren’s problems?
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They’re ignoring her so much that my crappy little satire web site comes up on the first page of results for common searches such as “elizabeth warren lawyer representing insurance company” and “did elizabeth warren pass the bar exam?”
- How the left transformed vulgarity into courage and elected Donald Trump
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When you lose to Donald Trump, look inward, because it isn’t Donald Trump’s fault. The establishment left, especially the media, attacked Donald Trump just like he was Joe the Plumber. But Donald Trump has the platform to attack back. Doing so took courage, and the Plumbers of America recognized that.
- The institutional forgetfulness of the press
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We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.
- The Make-Believe Media’s New Normal
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Whoever wins the election will be the new Sarah Palin. But they’re all acting like John McCain, obliviously unaware that the press might turn on them the moment they win the primary.
- Media debate: Bush or Romney at fault for economy?
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As the United States economy stalls again, newspaper and television reporters debate the important question: who is at fault?
- The media machine is calling me an asshole
- One side of the debt ceiling debate threatened to destroy our economy. One side just wanted to get along. One side wanted to restore fiscal sanity. Which side was extremist?
- The media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- Mitt Romney Day 2015
- For the 2015 Mitt Romney Day, the award goes to a pundit who worked at a high level in one administration, telling another pundit his opinion doesn’t count because he worked at a low level in another administration.
- Netflix lobbies Washington, Google lobbies press
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Netflix is following other tech companies into political lobbying, and Google lobbies the press as well.
- Nice park you have there; shame if anything happened to it.
- Who is the extortionist in the shutdown debate? Who is trying to cause actual harm right now in order to get protection money?
- Obama rocks the house in Charlotte
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“He just blew Clinton right off of the podium,” said former Republican Mary Clogginstein of Brattleboro, Vermont.
- Only if you’re paying them
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If I lost my job, I’d be paying less in taxes, too.
- An outdated code of conduct
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This social code once stood at the entrance to the Washington Post.
- Pink Revelations
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Revelation rides hard on the clouds. Thursday is, after all, the Day of the Dark Circus according to our lore masters—and Annette Funicelli.
- Politico retracts Carson retraction
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Democratic house organ retracts most claims, sticks by allegation against Ben Carson “being black without a license”.
- Remember this when the New York Times criticizes conservatives
- Peter Baker in the New York Times writes that conservatives can’t really be concerned about the President’s safety, because they criticize the President’s policies. What does this say about Baker and the Times’s criticism of George Bush and other conservatives?
- Resistance to media bias is unexpected
- It’s amazing how unprepared the biased media is when people don’t play along with their bias.
- The ruling class’s unexpectedly old clothes
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I recently ran across early use of “unexpectedly” for a conservative’s strong economy, referring to the early 1981 market recovery under President Reagan.
- Sarah
- Published while Governor Sarah Palin was just Governor Sarah Palin and not the 2008 Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican Party, this is a fascinating look at the pre-media frenzy governor.
- There will be deception
- As their world falls apart, media liars will get better at lying.
- There will be lies
- The media takes a blunder by Coons on the first amendment—and outright changes what both candidates said to make it look like a blunder by O’Donnell.
- They will sow dissension
- Part I: They will sow dissension. There’s a war brewing at Fox! and Sarah Palin isn’t really a hunter.
For true?
- Trickle down lying: What Wisconsin teaches us about the national news media
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On the one hand, “cut budgets, not costs” is a very California theology, so it’s not impossible that it exists in Wisconsin, too. On the other hand, when all the news is biased, it’s amazing that Walker gets as much support as he does.
- Trump and the media, the sequel
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Donald Trump is deliberately playing the media to overcome their desire to deny airtime to Republicans. Will it work?
- Two lessons for the price of one, for the Republican Party
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The Republican Party needs to stop trying to make it easy for the press to derail their primary process.
- Voting Nobody in 2016
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You want an election where Nobody is worth voting for? You’ve got it.
- Why don’t gun owners trust the left?
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If you have a Democrat in the house, you are eight hundred times more likely to die from statistical misrepresentation. Forty-three times more likely? Three times more likely? Would you believe smug mathematical innumeracy?
- Why isn’t Bob Filner resigning?
- Because he thinks he can get away with it—and chances are, he’s right. The watchdog media becomes a lapdog media where Democrats are concerned, especially when those Democrats are in contested areas.
- Why the New York Times can’t see 120 million homes
- Why it didn’t occur to the New York Time that the 120 million homes could easily out-donate the 158 top donors.
- World News Tonight vs. the Sirens of the Internet
- News organizations haven’t yet seemed to figure out that Iraq is a democracy. It isn’t up to George Bush to sack or not sack their Prime Minister.
- You can’t play an honest media
- Sarah Palin gets credit, when she’s not being accused of being unintelligent, of being smart enough to play the media for fools. But she isn’t: she’s telling everyone what she plans to do, why she did what she did; the media just isn’t listening. Then they write something stupid and the LA Times writes about how well she “played” them.
But you can’t play a media that’s doing its job.
