Friday, July 10, 2009

How Many Bloggers Were (Secretly) Invited to the White House 4th Bash?

Gawker is getting attention with this scoop: “Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn’t you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy.” My question is this: how many members of the online community were invited? Were any of the bloggers who laid the groundwork for Obama’s presidency in attendance?

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Why Is Reuters Featuring this Obama Photo and Why Is Drudge Highlighting It?

Is this intended to smear Obama by catching an out of context moment and making a (not so) subtle suggestion?  More on the photo at HuffPo.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

CNN Host Mixes Palin and Fey

A brief exchange on today’s CNN’s American Morning further proved that the media has been breathing its own exhaust. After playing a clip of David Letterman’s most recent Palin joke, Alina Cho had to be corralled by Kiran Chetry after she tried to be funny with a follow-up and smuggly mocked Sarah Palin by attributing a quote to Palin that Tina Fey actually said.  Whoops. Clearly some folks at CNN are believing the caricature of Sarah Palin that they helped to create is really her. After the comment she tried to clean up, but it didn’t go so well…

Chuck Todd Needs to Read Krugman, Greenwald, Hamsher, Aravosis and Huffington

Apparently, the recent flap over the public option is the “first time” the left has criticized the White House, at least according to Chuck Todd…

Underreported: Did North Korea Attack the U.S. in Cyberspace on July 4th?

Here’s a story that warrants a significant look, but may not garner much attention…

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Jumping the MJ Shark: Today Show Asks if Bubbles the Chimp Knows Jackson is Dead

This requires no commentary:

Monday, July 06, 2009

Underreported: More female veterans are winding up homeless

You probably won’t hear much about this ... More female veterans are winding up homeless ... but you should.

Yes, There IS a Media Double Standard …

For Michael Jackson, not Sarah Palin, silly:

Palin-Bashing and Hillary-Bashing: The Same Thing?

The explosion of Palin-bashing (and yes, it’s bashing, justified or not) across the political spectrum reminds me of a campaign that happened a lifetime ago. Back then, Hillary Clinton reprised her role as the political world’s favorite target. Attacking her was elevated to an art form; participants of all stripes joined in. It was the pinnacle of bipartisanship; right and left hammering away at her in an all-out assault that ultimately cost her the nomination.

She’s Pregnant, She’s under Investigation, She’s Crazy, She’s having an Affair …

Let us hope that when the dust settles in the case of Sarah Palin’s resignation as Governor of Alaska that the people who openly speculated about her departure are held to account. I’m thinking specifically of CNN’s Rick Sanchez who speculated that she is pregnant as well as the gang at MSNBC, who openly speculated that she is under criminal investigation.