Posts Tagged ‘mainstream media’
The mainstream media’s blackout of a monster’s trial
What is NOT news?
Judith Miller was a reporter for the New York Times who went to jail. She covered the Valerie Plame scandal a few years back. When pressed by authorities to reveal her sources, she refused and went to jail. This was big news. Would the MSM provide the same lavish coverage if the reporter worked for Fox News?
Read MoreAnimal torture trumps human torture
A woman hanged her dog from a tree. The Des Moines Register put the story on the front page of the Metro Section of the paper. They reported that the woman accused of this crime, Sheena Cornwell, was immediately thrown in jail on the criminal charge of animal torture.
Read MoreDid Bush II get coverage this favorable?
Liberals’ love affair with Fidel
“If a man who murdered 20,000 people, imprisoned for decades hundreds of thousands of others, caused countless hundreds of thousands to flee the country (many losing their lives in desperate attempts to reach freedom on flimsy rafts) and has repressed a nation for nearly five decades – – denying them the most basic of human rights — is not considered a ruthless dictator by all, who the hell is?”
Read MoreCatholic university punishes pro choice student for exercising free speech
In a shocking abrogation of the First Amendment, Depaul University is sanctioning a student who posted sensitive information on a pro choice website. The student was chairman of a campus organization called “Young Students for Choice.”
Read MoreThe silliness of the mainstream media
The shallowness of liberalism
That’s a harsh headline. I know some great people who hold liberal views, and they are not shallow people. In fact, so very many of them are bright, caring people that I hesitate to describe their worldview as shallow. But how can I not, in light of the silliness of the president’s State of the Union address, and its aftermath?
Read MoreThe ugly specter of anti-Catholicism
The priest abuse scandal was not largely based on pedophilia. Rather, it was dominated by homosexual abuse targeting adolescent boys.
Read MoreWhy does the mainstream media fear the March for Life?
The media knows that they have the power to accelerate the cause of human rights if they were to devote as much coverage to the March for Life as they did to, let’s say, the Occupy Wall Street nut cases. That is their fear. That is why they ignore the March for Life.
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