I wonder why Republicans ...

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... don't attack media bias this way?

The BBC could lose its exclusive right to the licence fee if it does not tackle a “culture” of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting, a senior Cabinet minister warns.

I mean, it's not like there's not ample evidence to support a charge of bias, is there?

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The BBC could lose its exclusive right to the licence fee if it does not tackle a “culture” of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting, a senior Cabinet minister warns.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/news-bias-could-cost-bbc-5-8-billion/#wKJTjQdKGh2hjx0E.99

The BBC could lose its exclusive right to the licence fee if it does not tackle a “culture” of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting, a senior Cabinet minister warns.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/news-bias-could-cost-bbc-5-8-billion/#wKJTjQdKGh2hjx0E.99

Because mistakes that paint Democrat politicians in a bad light ...

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... are not to be tolerated:

The Huffington Post first reported Monday that the AP had fired veteran Virginia political reporter Bob Lewis and Richmond-based editor Dena Potter over an erroneous Oct. 9 report alleging that McAuliffe had lied to a federal investigator.

Atlanta-based AP editor Norman Gomlak confirmed Tuesday that he had also been fired over the McAuliffe story. (Politico was first to publish Gomlak's name after HuffPost revealed earlier Tuesday that a third employee had been fired.) 

If you're going to make mistakes that harm politicians, make sure that it's a Republican ...

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Why Fox News ...

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... is just as bad as the others:

It's always the same things, according to the media: We got sloppy. We're not perfect. Sometimes a story is "just too good to resist," whether it's true or not.

But let's look at this "too good a story to resist." The writer successfully diagnoses the Zimmerman coverage as the media attempting to simplify a complicated story, in which the facts are simultaneously messy and unknowable, into a childishly unsophisticated White Hat/Black Hat Narrative. 

Fine. But why does the media always choose the same predictable Designated Heroes for its simplistic Narrative, and the same Designated Villains?

 Has Fox News ever, ever substantially taken any other tack about any other story than the one taken by every other network?!

I'm just about to the point where I openly mock my relatives when they say Fox News is the best, but I might need their help building my workshop. Maybe in a few weeks ...

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You think this ...

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... will stop the decline?

At today's annual meeting of Time Warner shareholders held at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Director Justin Danhof, Esq. confronted Time Warner CEO Jeffery Bewkes over his company's bias and partisan positions regarding the Second Amendment.

 Hmmm ... probably not:

"Bewkes said he would strive to do better and that CNN's goal was to present the news in a non-partisan way." 

It's too bad that even when confronted with evidence that the media are failing, they simply double down.

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I think ...

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... that we're using the wrong metric when we talk about rate of gun violence. Let me explain.

Back in the 80's, Harley Davidson pushed for tariffs on imported (Japanese) motorcycles above a certain displacement. Of course, part of the propoganda was that these motorcycles were more likely to be involved in an accident and were therefore dangerous and there's no need to have a motorcycle that goes that fast and besides, most imported motorcycle owners are Republicans.

Yeah, lots of hysteria.

But then, some actual statisticians mentioned that the metric should be accidents per mile traveled, noting that most Hardley owners bought their bikes to be seen on, while Japanese bike owners actually rode their bikes ... a lot. So when looked at it that way, crotch rockets had a much lower accident rate than Harley Davidson.

In much the same way, I think that the firearms rights community should accept the gun grabbers argument that we have so many guns, and then ask them why we have such a low incidence of gun crime relative to the physical number of guns? It's the same thing with ammo ... there are literally billions of rounds purchased in the US each year (enough to surely cause the rivers of blood that are so often predicted) and yet, there is not a corresponding loss of life.

We desperately need to stop playing the gun grabbers' game. Let's take the language back.

We also need to be policing our own. I saw a news report this morning that a local firearms dealer sold 36 assault rifles in the last three days, apparently oblivious to the mistake. Not only can we do better, we must do better.

If the media comes to you and asks how many assault weapons you've sold recently (and you don't deal in Title II weapons) then tell them none. 'But I see that gentleman walking out the store with one right now!' says the breathless reporter. Oh, you mean the semi-auto rifle that was on the market before the US militarized it? Well, yes, the market on those is being helped by the President right now! And we thank him.

'But, but ... but ...'

The media are not our friends, local or not, and they can't be counted on to get anything right when it comes to firearms ... even when you use little words. If you are interviewed you need to answer questions factually and not volunteer anything. Any, any mistake in terminology absolutely must be corrected and never agreed to.

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So ...

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... how is it that an authorized journalist gets kidnapped in the Middle East and no one hears about it?

Could it be that the network didn't want to further inflame the situation? Not encourage others to do the same? Maybe they wanted to get all of the information before they reported (or even announced) anything?

Or maybe they didn't have a political axe to grind, like they do with the Sandy Hook shooting?

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Layers ... and layers ... and layers ...

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... of editorial oversight:

ABC Denver reportedly misnames Petraeus book: “All up in my snatch”

Wow ... just, wow. And they have video.

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It's a shame ...

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... that this may be a viable campaign strategy:

Still trying to distill a "Vote Republican --so the media will report political corruption" message for the masses.

This from a post wherein an award-winning news writer from CBS takes NBC (finally!) to task for straining credulity on their editing 'mistakes'.

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Best coverage I've seen ...

... about the president releasing his long-form birth certificate:

Their claim was that the birth certificate, by law, can only be released to someone with a "tangible" interest in it, and then they claimed -- astute legal observers they -- that Obama himself had no "tangible" interest in it, and so could not ask for a copy. All he could do, they averred, was inspect it at the Honolulu hall of records.

Bullshit. Always was bullshit.

Mostly because Ace said 'bullshit'.

The reason it took this long will be debated almost as long as it took for the certificate to be released, but one thing's for certain - it has always been within Obama's power to release the birth certificate, but he did nothing.

Fucktard.

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Does it ever end?

The relentless drumbeat of reporters who don't:

Police say 64-year-old Fort Oglethorpe Walmart employee, Luther Lawson pulled a gun on a customer on Sunday, Easter morning.

As I wrote to the news director, the opening paragraph could have just as accurately said ' A 64-year-old man resopded to being shoved with his legally-carried handgun.'

The reporting is, as usual, horrible. On Newschannel9's Facebook page, the reportress admitted that everything in the article is as the police told them it happened. No trying to find witnesses, no questioning of the police, no interviewing the alleged victim.

They're not reporters, they're repeaters.

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You don't say

All those military weapons don't come from the US:

“The most fearsome weapons wielded by Mexico’s drug cartels enter the country from Central America, not the United States, according to U.S. diplomatic cables disseminated by WikiLeaks and published here Tuesday by La Jornada newspaper.”

But, but ... that doesn't fit the narrative!

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Bitch slap!

Dan Harris lets Clarissa Ward know what he thinks about her "epic" journey!



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What if the government started fucking up ...

... and no one reported it?

CBS has done yeomans' work (yeah, I threw up in my mouth a little) about Project Gunwalker - in fact, so far they're the only major network to cover it.

It's about time.

If you have the time, make sure you send a note to your local station's news director and thank him. You can send another to your ABC and NBC affiliates asking when they're going to get the lead out of their asses.

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Here's a good one for you ...

... officer wittless victim of accidental discharge, shoots suspect while serving arrest warrant:

A Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Deputy is on leave Wednesday night and a suspect is in the hospital, after a drug search ends in an accidental shooting. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond tells us the officer's gun fired whenA Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Deputy is on leave Wednesda Rifley night and a suspect is in the hospital, after a drug search ends in an accidental shooting. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond tells us the officer's gun fired when he tripped while serving the warrant.
Obviously, since this is the media, vital information is lacking. he tripped while serving the warrant.
Obviously, since this is the media, vital information is lacking.

The video segment at the link states that the officers' rifle accidentally went off, striking the suspect in the calf. Rifle? Patrol rifle? Like an evil AR-15-assault-weapon-that-doesn't-have-any-other-use-than-to-kill?

Notice my shocked face.

And this is from the news organization that I was told went to the shooting range, supposedly to get familiar with firearms, since a lot of their viewers were complaining about their complete idiocy about firearms lack of familiarity about firearms.

And the reportress who went to the scene is one of the valiant few who went to the range ... they even got to shoot an AR-15, so I guess they're experts now.

Glad I don't live in Hamilton Co anymore ........

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Why I don't ...

... look to USA Today to get my firearms news:

Among other improvements contained in the new sniper rifle are more powerful telescope and a device on the muzzle that dampens the noise and flash of a shot, helping to conceal the U.S. sniper.

"Telescope"? "Device ... that dampens the noise and flash"?

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Discovery

I'll not link anyone, because I'd have to link a bunch of folks (but they're the usual suspects!).

Hopefully no one is hurt in the Discovery Channel hostage crisis, but the MSM narrative has appeared.

When a nut-job can be, no matter how tenuously, tied to a right-wing cause, then that's what the MSM will do.

But if the nut-job's a liberal, well then .... his is a passionate cause!

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Here's some payback for ya

Via HotAir headlines, this article on journalism warning labels.

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Hey hey ..... goodbye!

Couldn't have happened to a nicer wench:

In a terse statement this morning, the Hearst Corporation announced the retirement of Helen Thomas, the longtime White House reporter whose remarks that Jews should quit "occupying" Palestine and return home to Poland and Germany scorched the Internet.

See ya ..... wouldn't wanna be ya!

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Is it beginning?

The National Enquirer, a legit newspaper?

The body behind journalism's most prestigious award conceded Thursday that the self-proclaimed tabloid can compete with mainstream news outlets for its prizes. Because it broke the story about former presidential candidate John Edwards's mistress and love child, the Enquirer's staff is eligible for the Pulitzer in two categories: "Investigative Reporting" and "National News Reporting."

There's a category for 'Investigative Reporting'? I've got ... news ... for the MSM: just because you have someone on staff you call an investigative reporter, doesn't mean that's what he does! It would serve the MSM right if the Enquirer did win a Pulitzer ..... shame them into doing their jobs.

I haven't seen real investigative reporting from the MSM in quite a long while.

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Yeah, it's this bad

How poorly the MSM covered the Dr Phil Jones admissions:

At least CNN brought John Christy on air to talk about it.

It's a small chart ...... make sure you see it!

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