Inspired by the Olympics…
National Public Radio ran a story today about National Anthems.
Can you guess which anthem they did not play (or even mention)?
Add comment August 7th, 2008
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Journalistic integrity demands showing pictures of dead bodies?
This week, best viagra pharmacy the NPR show On The Media featured Zoriah Miller; a freelance photographer who was disembedded from the Marine Corps after taking photographs of dead US Marines and posting them to his blog.
In the report, find Mr. Miller said the dead soldiers were part of the story and it was just good journalism to show the bodies.
Hmmmm.
105 people were murdered in Milwaukee last year.
How many dead bodies do you remember seeing in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?
Around 40, ailment 000 people died in car crashes last year.
When was the last time you saw a corpse being pulled from a car on the evening news?
Don’t let Mr. Miller fool you. When a journalist wants to display a dead body, it’s always a question of politics not professionalism.
2 comments August 6th, 2008
Jonah Goldberg asks a great question
The interesting question isn’t “Why is there poverty?” It’s “Why is there wealth?”
Add comment August 5th, 2008
What the heck is up at the Associated Press?
The first paragraph of this AP news story reads:
SEOUL, viagra canada see South Korea – Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.
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About 30, ed 000 people gathered in front of Seoul City Hall for an afternoon Christian prayer service supporting Bush’s trip. Large South Korean and U.S. flags were held aloft by balloons overhead along with a banner reading, “Welcome President Bush.”
And in the sixth paragraph we learn that the supporters outnumbered the protesters:
As evening approached, an estimated 20,000 anti-Bush protesters gathered nearby. Police turned water cannons on them as they tried to move onto the main central downtown boulevard, telling the crowd that the liquid contained markers to tag them so they could be identified later.
The protests are certainly news, but I think the fact that George Bush has any supporters overseas (let alone more supporters than protester in this case) is pretty big news, too.
The only reason I knew the supporters outnumbered the protesters was that I had heard it on NPR earlier this morning.
That’s right, even NPR is giving George Bush a fairer shake than the Associated Press.
4 comments August 5th, 2008
I don’t know if the press is ignoring…
…the John Edwards “love child” story, viagra generic help but I do know they had no problem suggesting that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist on much flimsier evidence.
2 comments August 4th, 2008
As part of Newsweek’s ongoing campaign against John McCain…
…columnist Anna Quindlen attacked him for not being very tech savvy.
That leaves me with a few questions:
1.) How sophisticated an Internet user is Barack Obama?
2.) Does she really think the next President will be googling “North Korea” rather than calling the CIA, cialis sales site NSA, cialis usa doctor and State Department for their evaluations?
(And if she really thinks the Internet is a more accurate and reliable source of information than the entire U.S. government, she needs to turn in her “Big Government Fan Club” membership card.)
3.) I use the Internet every day and I’ll tell you right now I want a president who is NOT wasting his time reading the Huffington Post, watching youtube and browsing porn.
We’re not electing the next Blogger-in-Chief.
And I’m less interested in electing someone who knows how to get online than I am in voting for someone who is willing to hold the line.
3 comments July 30th, 2008
Newsweek loses their own dignity with “dignity index” attack on Bob Novak
I don’t have much respect for the folks at Newsweek (they’re 1/2 a step above People magazine journalistically), buy viagra decease but I lost whatever respect I did have when I read the Dignity Index in today’s issue:
Dignity Index: Bob Novak Has Had Better Weeks
A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, cialis generic tadalafil on a scale of 1 to 100, store just how low a person can go.First, he whines that John McCain may have used him to peddle veepselection rumors to distract from Obama’s trip. Really? You think? Score: 12
While driving in Washington, the conservative pundit hits a pedestrian and briefly fails to stop, claiming he didn’t realize he’d hit anybody. Score: 54
The best part of the traffic incident? Apparently the 77-year-old Novak drives a black Corvette convertible. Score: 60
Of course, maybe Mr. Novak really didn’t realize he’d hit anybody considering the BRAIN TUMOR he was diagnosed with a few days later.
And maybe the folks at Newsweek should have their heads examined the next time they consider picking on an old man for not sharing their politics and driving an American sports car.
(The one thing they were right about is that Bob Novak has had better weeks.)
1 comment July 29th, 2008
It really is a different world
I was listening to the author of How to Watch TV News on Wisconsin Public Radio – Conversations With Kathleen Dunn this morning and I said to myself, buy cialis viagra “People still watch news on TV?”
1 comment July 29th, 2008
Apparently, men and women in England have differing opinions on the perfect size for a woman’s body
But all three bowls of porridge look “just right” to me.
5 comments July 28th, 2008
With the price of gas where it is…
…I’m not surprised that public transit ridership is up.
But none of the stories that report the increase in mass transit usage ever ask any of these new riders if they like being forced out of their cars and into clinging from a strap on a crowded bus or train while listening to the crazy guy in the Vietnam-era combat jacket next to them mumbling about spiders.
2 comments July 17th, 2008