Most Outrageous Comments of 2008
Source: Media Matters for America
With attacks on autistic children, the poor, and HIV-positive basketball star Magic Johnson, talking heads showed that nobody was safe in 2008, no matter how unfounded and unseemly the smear.
Online journalists now jailed more often than other media
Source: Ars Technica
If you think it's tough to be a blogger because your Google AdWords revenue has been in the toilet lately, the Committee to Protect Journalists wants to remind you that Internet journalist—including bloggers—can and do suffer much more around the world.
London gallery shows use of antisemitism in Arab media
Source: JPost.com
"An exhibition documenting the widespread use of anti-Semitic cartoons in the Arab press opened in London on Tuesday. ------------------------- Note: This seed is about anti-semitism in the Arab media.
Ok, I was hoping to get some traffic with the title. What I really want is *your* top five political assbags, ranked in order, with your reasons for including them on the list.
As I watch the news each night I am waiting for word that Wall Street has exploded, and everyone has gone out of business. The media would have you believe that are economy is entering another depression, and it will be years before we are back on our feet.
Besides a time machine, that is?
Bye Bye, PC Magazine
Source: PC Mech
PC Magazine will be printing it's last print version of the magazine in January. Thereafter, it will remain only as an online publication. RIP.
The anti-Obama Christian bloggers
Source: One Salient Oversight
One of the more painful things I have had to read in the past few weeks has been the growing chorus of panic and dismay amongst Christian Bloggers who are going crazy over the prospect of a Barack Obama/Democrat victory.
MSM to discourage McCain voters from going to the polls
Source: NewsMax
Political analyst Roger Stone tells Newsmax TV that there's a calculated effort by the news networks and major newspapers to discourage McCain voters from going to the polls Tuesday by framing the election as already won by Obama.
A Message From The 'Mainstream Media'
Source: Forbes
Am I saying McCain will win? No way. I'm just admitting we're nervous--and really, really tired of all this. For us in the mainstream media, the campaign isn't about choosing a president. It's about us.
Why Wait? New Mexico Paper Hits Street With 'Obama Wins' Headline
Source: Editor & Publisher
Could this be "Dewey Defeats Truman" II? A New Mexico paper hit the streets this week with a headline in red declaring, "Obama Wins." The New Mexico Sun News is a bi-monthly, and decided to roll the dice on the Barack Obama victory for its issue dated Oct. 26-Nov. 8.
Egypt's siege of Gaza
Source:
'Last week, CAMERA released a backgrounder aimed at the many media outlets that refer exclusively to an "Israeli siege" of Gaza without acknowledging that Egypt also chooses to severely restrict people and goods from entering Gaza"
The entire concept of MSM is ridiculous. I mean what is different about calling someone MSM than homosexual?
Christian Science Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy
Source: Christian Science Monitor
In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions.
Media's Presidential Bias and Decline
Source: ABC News
The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.