Apparently the words the alleged shooter spoke before opening fire last night at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston mean less than nothing to Fox News, at least if the panelists on its “Fox and Friends” show are any guide. According to a survivor he said “I have to do it. You rape …
Read Joan Walsh at Salon and shake your head yet again at the entitlement on exhibit by the elite media. Then read Paul Farhi’s column about that same media and its reluctance to talk about its work without negotiation. These people aren’t stupid. They must realize how asinine they look. So why don’t they change …
Hey, newspapers and magazines and broadcast networks and cable channels, when it comes to the 2016 Presidential campaign, skip the whole thing! Journalists ought to simply skip the whole campaign circus, and forget about access journalism when it comes to the presidential race. It’s a waste of time and money. The point the author tries …
The tabloidization of news is almost complete. Look at this case. A former (former!) Speaker of the US House of Representatives has been indicted for breaking banking laws and lying to the FBI. He has not been indicted for bribery of a public official. He hasn’t been a public official himself since 2006. He’s a …
For whatever reason, ever since the former Florida quarterback appeared on the scene and won the Heisman Trophy back in 2007, ESPN has been fascinated or possibly obsessed with him. They’ve devoted more screen time to Tim Tebow than to any athlete I can think of (with the possible exception of Johnny Manziel), even true …
The radio show Says You airs every Thursday on Hawai’i Public Radio. On February 9, the show’s creator and host, Richard Sher, died of cancer at 66. Yet every show since has still featured him as a host. There are tributes to him on the show’s website, but I have yet to hear anything on …
I’m not going into detail here. Everyone who cares about this issue has been inundated with talk from countless vomitous talking heads on cable TV and talk-radio and on the network news as well. She should have gotten a state.gov email address. No question about it. It would have made life simpler for both herself …
First Kanye West decides that Beyoncé needs help from the Grammy voters. Then NBC suspends Brian Williams from The Nightly News for six months without pay. Hey! Maybe they could just switch jobs! We now know that Mr. Williams has aspirations to be a late night host; from the story above: About five years ago, …
Brian Williams is removing himself from the NBC Nightly News, at least temporarily. This as a result of flak he’s taking for misremembering (to his friends) or lying (to his critics) about a helicopter ride he took in Iraq in 2003. I’m no big fan of Williams (the last anchor I really liked was Peter …
Have any of you other NPR listeners noticed that Morning Edition has suddenly gotten a bucketload of mentions while other programs are on? During All Things Considered each of the last few days there’s been a promo spot for Morning Edition (“Tomorrow on Morning Edition there’ll be…”). I’m wondering if the show has been losing …