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Remember how, following the Fort Hood massacre, Americans were cautioned by pundits and politicians alike not to blame Islam for the actions of one Muslim? A typical mainstream media narrative went something like this excerpt from Sally Quinn‘s Washington Post

Bill Whittle posted this video essay on Big Journalism recently, which got us to thinking: what would today’s media make of the sentiments that animated the Declaration of Independence? You remember, this musty old thing: Not so much the famous

You can dump only so much manure on a plant before it has to thrive on its own, and the same principle applies in journalism. An initiative that lacks grass roots can wither in the sun despite liberal doses of

As the Congress and the President of the United States lurch toward reconciliation, or the Slaughter Solution, or whichever form the coming debacle is going to take, let’s take a stroll down memory lane to this memorable moment in the

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do The press finally falls out of love with Obama. In Newsweek, Howard Fineman says it’s over: The “mainstream media” are losing patience with, and even interest in, their erstwhile hero. President Barack Obama never

Like all red-blooded American boys, when Mr. Gisele Bundchen speaks, we listen up to the principal signal-caller of the New England Patriots. Yes, the man with three Super Bowl rings and babies both by the Brazilian supermodel and actress Bridget

First there was the old adage: never drink and dial. [youtube A6MJj9unI9I nolink] Then we all learned that texting while driving was a very, very bad idea: [youtube K2D3hB278Gc nolink] Now another no-no has been added to the list —

There’s an old saying that describes the fortunes of families, corporations and criminal enterprises: “From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” You know: John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Nelson Rockefeller… the other Rockefellers. Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry Luce,

Two clips, one comment. Up to you to find the common thread. First, Glenn Beck today: [youtube ewAGXAeCXJY&feature nolink] Now, everybody’s favorite gangster movie. For copyright reasons, we can’t show you the scene in which Frankie Five Angels recants his

Time was when newspapers were as stalwart in defending the First Amendment rights of others as they were for themselves. But increasingly, some media organizations are using their constitutionally protected platforms to intimidate others into surrendering their rights. Specifically, we’re

Don’t blame us: Renegade Democrat, health-care “no” vote and therefore soon-to-be-ex-Congressman from upstate New York Eric Massa said it: Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote.

Mark Steyn is always right, whether he’s writing about Andrew Lloyd Webber or, in this case, the suicide-bomber-in-chief, Barack Obama, who doesn’t much care how many Democrats get sent to the electoral Elysian Fields — or even whether he gets

MSNBC analyst Craig “Yuk Yuk Yuk” Crawford has said sayonara to everybody’s favorite low-rated cable network, with a blast in the direction of the head leg-tingler-in-charge himself, Chris Matthews. Apparently the lunatic-asylum gig just wasn’t funny anymore for the jolliest

What product works best for hiding artificial roots? Printer’s ink, of course! For more information, check recent copies of The Washington Post and The New York Times, both of which portrayed 41-year-old Annabel Park as a concerned citizen from Virginia

Imagine you’re a month-old political group that exists chiefly on Facebook. You’ve never mounted a protest of any size or significance. You’ve collected $500 in online donations. Your first meeting in the Seattle area generated less enthusiasm than a 2003

Okay, ladies and gentlemen: no need to paint the lily here. This story from CNN speaks for itself: Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science

You all remember when Babs Boxer, the Terror of Tiny Town, went Brooklyn-nuclear on a hapless Army Brigadier General, Michael Walsh, who had the insolence to call her “Ma’am” instead of “Senator” when testifying before her short but august majesty.

You know you’ve just had a bad day when the apostle of Washington Conventional Wisdom, David “Teddy Kennedy’s seat” Gergen puts on his serious mien (does he have any other?) and pronounces upon the weighty matters of the day. [youtube

Andrew Breitbart used his address to CPAC yesterday morning to continue his assault on the mainstream media, but at around the 5:00 mark, he moved the ball in a different direction altogether. Listen for the part where he invites citizen-journalists

On February 18, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Kate Zernike’s piece “CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones” went live on the New York Times’ Website. Just after 4:00pm that afternoon, Andrew Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award

The BigJournalism.com editorial panel is attending this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., and it didn’t take long for a media-induced controversy to break out. We expected the mainstream media couldn’t cover a gathering of 10,000 conservatives

We used to think of the British and European press as far more politicized than ours; after all, their newspapers freely chose up sides and when you picked up a Tory paper such as The Telegraph, a center-right paper like

Try to control your astonishment, but the news is not good for CNN, the Least-Watched Name in News. From TV Newser: CNN hit new low viewership totals during prime time Friday night (8-11pm) in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers.

Just what the media needs: Now it’s the Federal Communications Commission’s turn to examine the future of journalism and the media industry. “We are at a critical juncture in the evolution of American media,” FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said in

Whatever you think of Pat Condell — the British internet talking head, former Roman Catholic and now committed atheist, who regularly heaps hot helpings of scorn on his favorite targets (Islam, religion in general, multiculturalism, European cultural suicide) — you

Courtesy of the great Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, and PJTV comes this lovely interview with the face of the next generation of conservatives, Lyda Loudon, who’s all of fourteen years old. The interview was conducted during the recent National Tea Party

Free speech, open debate, “sunlight is the best disinfectant” — these concepts used to be the cornerstones of life in the Enlightenment West. From John Milton through John Stuart Mill, from Justice Brandeis to Harvey Silverglate, a strain of intellectually

Greg Marx at the Columbia Journalism Review has come out with his report on the James O’Keefe/Max Blumenthal/Salon dust-up last week, and the results are not pretty: UNFORCED ERROR AT SALON “O’Keefe’s race problem” story goes astray on key detail

The crew of braying jackasses on Morning Joe today had much merriment with Sarah’s crib notes, as they continue to whistle past the graveyard of the coming annihilation of the Democrat Party this fall. And CNN explicitly compared Sarah’s palm

Die-hard supporters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — better known as the infamous ACORN — are not going to like these developments. From City Hall, Edward–Isaac Dovere reports that the embattled Lewis has quietly stepped aside

Remember when the Left was the champion of the Little Guy? When they hated the “undemocratic” Electoral College and passed the 17th Amendment to force the direct election of Senators? When Andrew Jackson effectively invented the modern Democratic Party by

Sure, it’s a silly question. Still, it’s nice to see the lapdogs of the Democrat-Media Complex finally ‘fess up to an act of malfeasant journalistic cheerleading on a scale never before seen in this country. From Newsbusters: Two prominent journalists

Via Instapundit, this picture of you-know-who at the you-know-what. So… what do you think of the Divine Sarah? The floor is now open for discussion.

You know you’re having a bad day, Joan Walsh, when it’s just you and Max Blumenthal alone in a foxhole while you’re being overwhelmed by the truth. Because David Weigel, one of your sources for Blumenthal’s story and Max’s own

You really can’t make this stuff up (h/t Mediaite). Imagine if Fox News had done this. Comedian Dave Chappelle has some further thoughts on black people and chicken here: [youtube uCbD9o948ec nolink]

Who says there’s no good news? Sure the Iranians are making threatening noises about something big happening on Feb. 11, and the U.S. government has all but promised the American people that there will be a major attack on the