Standards.

Ever heard of Al-Aqsa TV? You may think you haven’t, but if you’re a longtime HA reader I’ll bet you have. They’re responsible for the charming children’s characters Farfour, the Jew-hating mouse; Nahoul, the Jew-hating bee; and Assud, the Jew-eating rabbit. Apart from their stellar children’s programming, they’re known for Holocaust revisionism and various forms [...]

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Politics.

Yes, really. Remember, even a notorious immigration squish like McCain refuses to bow to Orwellian demands to stop using the term “illegal immigrant.” With good reason: Isn’t “illegal immigrant” itself a politically correct alternative to the statutory term “alien”? “Illegal alien” was too harsh and Other-y, so “illegal immigrant” came into vogue. They’re just like [...]

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"Riddled with problems."

When the Journal News published a map showing the location of all households in their corner of New York, gun-rights activists vehemently criticized the decision as irresponsible, one that put the entire community in danger.  As it turns out, they underestimated just how irresponsible the Journal News decision was.  The map wildly overstated the number [...]

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"We've made a mistake, possibly several mistakes."

At least The Atlantic didn’t opt for the passive “Mistakes were made” in its mea culpa today. After taking a beating on Twitter and in the on-line community, the magazine pulled a controversial ad for the Church of Scientology and apologized to its readers: We screwed up. It shouldn’t have taken a wave of constructive [...]

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Not "proudly gun-free"?

Normally, one expects politicians and celebrities to go shopping for high-end public-relations firms to fend off journalists during and after a scandal.  It’s quite another thing when a media outlet has to spend big money to fend off other media outlets.  The Washington Post’s Eric Wemple reports that the newspaper that published an interactive map [...]

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Irresponsible journalism.

The timing is certainly suspicious, to say the least. Just days after a local newspaper published an interactive map showing the location of people who have handgun permits in two New York counties, burglars broke into one of the houses revealed by the map.  Coincidence?  Not exactly — the burglars went straight for the gun [...]

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"I just flirted with the President of the United States of America."

Heh. Because it’s Friday, and it’s funny — on air yesterday with Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt, and again today with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, MSNBC hostess Andrea Mitchell wondered aloud about the growing sentiment that President Obama doesn’t seem to make himself much available for hard-hitting press coverage. Both LaBolt and DWS [...]

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Full disclosure for the reader? Or more government overreach?

Yesterday, it was reported that a judge is requiring Google and Oracle to disclose any journalists and bloggers they pay, as a result of a series of intellectual property lawsuits unsuccessfully filed by Oracle. From the article: In a surprise order, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said “the court is concerned” that Oracle and Google [...]

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All the quotes that are approved to print.

It’s one thing to insist that reporters check quotes for accuracy and proper context.  Most carry recorders of some kind to ensure that they accurately quote their sources, especially since it has become so inexpensive to do so.  But should they have to get approval from politicians to use accurate quotes from the campaigns and [...]

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Action, not status.

Via Fox News, Jammie Wearing Fool, Mediate, Instapundit, and darned near every sentient being in the dextrosphere (including Allahpundit in the QOTD), our friend and Boss Emeritus Michelle Malkin took Fox News’ Juan Williams to the woodshed at the end of a discussion about the self-serving leaks coming from the White House in the Obama [...]

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"It's great to watch politics in action. As we cover this story, the president is thinking."

Help me out here: can the Obama White House possibly boast of a more useful stooge than this guy? Of course, Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews has made no secret of his infatuation with the man, the myth, the legend that is Barack Obama, but at first, I thought he had his tongue in [...]

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Candor.

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton recently defended the WaPo’s decision to run a major story on page A3, rather than the front page. The story — which revealed that Obamacare will actually add to the deficit rather than subtract from it, as the administration has claimed since before the passage of the massive health care [...]

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This time at the Washington Post.

In 2004, bloggers exposed the memos at the heart of CBS’ story about George W. Bush avoiding military service as forgeries, forcing the termination of producer Mary Mapes and the disgrace of 60 Minutes II and Dan Rather.  Defenders of CBS claimed that while the memos themselves were fakes, the story was nonetheless still true, [...]

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Truth.

First, just watch the video. Pay special attention to the woman in the horn-rimmed glasses behind Tapper’s left shoulder; her expressions are priceless! She must not be such a fan of aggressive journalism herself: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerTo review: ABC’s Tapper actually hit the White House with all of these lines: “How does that [...]

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Confirmed: The MSM is the MSM.

In this video (via Greg Hengler), “Polk Award-winning journalist” Michael Hastings just says aloud what everybody already knows, but, for that very reason, it’s refreshing. In case you’re unfamiliar, Hastings covered the war in Afghanistan for Rolling Stone and wrote an article in June 2010 that led to the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. Since then, [...]

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Predictable.

My hopes for a Time magazine spread about the March for Life protesters are fading fast. For the fifth year in a row, The New York Times ignored the March for Life, which drew at least a hundred thousand participants in D.C. alone. NewsBusters reports: For the fifth year in a row, there was no story in [...]

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Bar.

For several years, the case of Stephen Glass has fascinated me.  Even before the excellent film Shattered Glass, I had followed the story of the serial fabulist, who fabricated dozens of stories for The New Republic and other magazines, and who then tried to cash in on his notoriety with a novel called The Fabulist, [...]

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