Americans have a “sense of helplessness,” are “a battered public,” and ”live in a world gone haywire,” according to the Associated Press. In what must be the planet’s most negative article, AP writers Alan Fram and Eileen Putnam would have us believe the sky is falling as never before. The first paragraph sets the tone for pessimism [...]
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June 23rd, 2008
Please Pass the Cyanide
June 16th, 2008
Being Anti-War Isn’t Easy
President Bush’s decision to preemptively attack Iraq is proving to be an unmitigated success. Though the going has been much more difficult than anyone envisioned and the cost painfully high, winning in Iraq has tipped the war on terror in our favor. Iraq will never be a haven for terrorists or supply our enemies with weapons [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Media, Video, War in Iraq at 3:34 PM UTC
May 28th, 2008
No Place For Politics
Last year’s release of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) produced a firestorm of criticism directed at President Bush. The President had consistently portrayed Iran as a dangerous foe determined to acquire nuclear weapons, but the 2007 NIE seemed to contradict that determination. Democratic Senator Dennis Kucinich led a chorus of accusers heck-bent on inflicting another [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Politics, War on Terror at 6:39 PM UTC
May 9th, 2008
There Ought To Be a Law
For months we’ve been told it’s coming. The anointing was a foregone conclusion. Experts predicted it would be a fact by March 31st. Hundreds of articles reaching to thousands of column inches have confirmed it. All the signs were in place, said the Associated Press, and “sixty-one percent of the public” believed it was a done deal. But, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Media at 3:28 PM UTC
May 1st, 2008
Pravda Would Be Proud
Providing a textbook example of slanted news coverage, the Los Angeles Times wasted no time contradicting yesterday’s good news that the American economy continues to expand. Little wonder. The Times has been on a months-long crusade to convince voters, uh, readers that the economic sky is indeed falling. Good economic news shall not be tolerated! Today’s [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Ethics, Fraud Watch, Media at 1:43 PM UTC
April 30th, 2008
What If They Held a Recession and Nobody Came?
Despite the doom and gloom, all-bad-news-all-the-time mainstream media’s attempt to manufacture a recession, the economy continued to grow in the first quarter. “Earlier this year,” admitted the Associated Press, “some economists thought the economy would lurch into reverse during the opening quarter.” Now, to the surprise of no one, “they believe that will likely [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Fraud Watch, Media at 3:36 PM UTC
April 22nd, 2008
Don’t Sack Jack!
Hell must have frozen over, because I am about to defend Jack Cafferty. Talk about lifting “strange bedfellows” to an entirely new level! Cafferty recently said some stridently abrasive things about Chinese products and leaders. In response, Chinese-Americans and Chinese citizens permitted to work in America ”rallied outside CNN’s Hollywood office…to demand” CNN sack Jack, according to [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values, Media at 2:04 PM UTC
April 1st, 2008
I’ve Seen the Light and This Ain’t It
Race-baiters across the fruited plain are in full damage control, penning multiple op/eds attempting to provide cover for their exposed comrade, Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Despite facing an uphill battle, Reverend Wright’s defenders just might pull it off considering the support lent by the mainstream media. To get this many column inches, William F. Buckley had [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Race Relations at 6:40 PM UTC
March 26th, 2008
They’re Watching and Listening
The Watergate affair was a major watershed in American politics, causing a President to resign and awakening reporter’s latent desires to change the world. If the most powerful person in the free-world could be taken down, no one was beyond reach. Moreover, while Woodward and Bernstein were good journalists, they were virtually indistinguishable from [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Cultural Insanity, Media at 4:28 PM UTC
March 21st, 2008
The Unfairness Doctrine
Once upon a time, the Fairness Doctrine was a good idea. In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission initiated the principle in “an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair.” Relatively few radio transmission frequencies were available and television was dominated by “the big three,” CBS, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Politics, Video at 4:43 PM UTC
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