Pointless 2016 Election Journalism, 2014 Edition
Trying to cover the 2016 presidential election based on a poll in 2014 is a waste of time.
‘Debating’ War, Corporate Media Style
Discussions of what the Obama White House should do in Iraq and Syria are dominated by hawks, military officials and former national security insiders.
Repeal the Bill Kristol Permanent Punditry Act!
The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel confronted Bill Kristol on ABC about his disastrous Iraq War advocacy. One has to wonder why Kristol was there in the first place.
Kristol’s Funny Obamacare Numbers
Since he left Fox News Channel in 2013, conservative pundit Bill Kristol now gets to play TV expert on a range of outlets. On April 6, he showed up on ABC’s This Week to misinform viewers about healthcare.
Obamacare Website = Iraq War, Now with Bill Kristol
Think the comparisons between the Obamacare website and the Iraq War are done? Think again. Some people still see the connection–like Iraq War booster Bill Kristol.
Obamacare as a ‘Big Government’ Failure
Pundits’ discussions of the Affordable Care Act rollout assumes that the law represents some kind of “activist government” intervention to disrupt the normally smooth workings of the private sector. But that is neither the intent nor the effect of the law.
FAIR TV: Snowden the ‘Spy,’ Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates
On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a “spy,” and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York’s stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are slashed, say the TV reports. But are they actually…going up? Watch it all this on this week’s episode:
Frisking Bill Kristol
Neocon pundit Bill Kristol was wrong every which way about the Iraq War. So why’s he on ABC talking about stop and frisk?
What Do NPR’s Right-Wing Critics Have to Complain About?
David Margolick has an interesting piece about NPR in the new issue of Vanity Fair. He spends much of his time on Juan Williams, but this observation about NPR‘s right-wing critics is an important observation: Apart from the occasional stories about gays or Palestinians (and maybe even gay Palestinians), there’s precious little on NPR these […]
The Weekly Standard’s War
The Weekly Standard, the country’s preeminent neoconservative magazine, was sold to Clarity Media Group, a Denver-based publishing group, for an undisclosed sum in June (Washington Examiner, 6/17/09). Rupert Murdoch’s unloading of the country’s most vigorously pro-war journal marks the end of a particularly sinister and regrettable era in the history of U.S. media. At a […]
More Calls to Bomb (Any) Somalians
Taking the brave position (ScholarsAndRogues.com, 4/20/09) that the National Review Online is so bad that it makes William F. Buckley‘s print version look “semi-respectable” by comparison, former U.S. Navy Commander Jeff Huber writes that in his April 11 NRO post, “military historian and former classics professor Victor Davis Hanson comes across like a rabid war […]
Media Criticism, Homer Simpson-Style
Reading this at the bottom of neo-con William Kristol‘s column in the New York Times (1/26/09): This is William Kristol’s last column. Homer says, “Woohoo!” Then reading this at the Politico: EXCLUSIVE: Progressives will delight when they get to the italic note at the end of Bill Kristol’s column in the Times today say, “This […]
Hawks and ‘Naive’ Doves
On Fox News Sunday (11/16/08), NPR reporter Mara Liasson offered her take (which was essentially the same as neo-con co-panelist Bill Kristol) on why picking Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State would be good for Barack Obama: In terms of Obama, I think he wants–it would send a lot of important signals. Number one, she […]
Bill Kristol’s ‘Stupid Campaign’
Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald sees (10/12/08, ad-viewing required) “Bill Kristol in a Nutshell” when observing the New York Times columnist’s statements over the past week. First Greenwald points to an October 5 column in which Kristol “agreed [with Sarah Palin] that the McCain/Palin campaign must attack Obama harder on his ‘associations,’ particularly with Bill Ayers.” Then […]
