Caught in the act

Jed at Daily Kos has a good summary of Faux News getting caught with their hand in the till, so to speak.

The video isn’t really a surprise: anyone whose watched coverage of protests can see that Fox is sympathetic to the protesters, but this video offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Fox actually fueling the fire of the very same crowds they claim to be covering.

All the news that’s fit to invent.

Holding Faux News Accountable

Media Fail

Why the latest Faux News Foible is so pathetic:

Biased journalism can be worthwhile. Fox News likes to maintain the fiction that it’s completely impartial — insulting even its own viewers’ intelligence — but the network’s obvious partisanship is only part of the problem.

The more painful shortcoming, as Orr explained, is that Fox News can’t even do biased journalism well. It sets embarrassingly low standards — literally running using Republican Party talking points as an on-air script, and then apologizing for the typo, was a unique humiliation — and then fails to even try to meet them.

Fairly unbalanced

Oh Greta, how the great are fallen…

CNBC still hasn’t learned

They should know better than to come unarmed to a battle of wits.

more about “CNBC still hasn’t learned“, posted with vodpod

When will they learn?

CNBC should learn to stop messing with TDS.

more about “When will they learn?“, posted with vodpod

Reality and newspapers

Kathy Gill explores the myth of paid content.

Time to complete potty training…

It would appear the royals have had enough of Harry’s foot in mouth disease:

Britain’s Prince Harry has been sent on course on equality and diversity after a series of high profile racial gaffes have damaged the young royal’s reputation, it was reported Thursday.

Harry, an officer in the British Army, was formally disciplined by superiors after videos surfaced showing him using offensive language — referring to a fellow soldier as a “Paki” and another as looking “like a raghead.”

Now, according to the Daily Mirror newspaper, the 24-year-old has been ordered to attend lessons on how not to be racist and gain understanding of how offensive his comments are. …

The latest development follows a new claim that the prince, third in line to throne, told a black British comedian that he didn’t “sound like a black chap.”

In a 2005 gaffe, Harry apologized after he was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform at a party.

Hat tip: WKW@Shakesville

Calling Faux News

It’s not a secret that Fox “News” tools are adjuncts to the Republican”t PR machine, but do they have to be so blatant about it?

During the February 10 edition of Fox News’ Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that “the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan — its version of it, anyway. We thought we’d take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and grew, and grew.” In tracking how and when the bill purportedly “grew,” Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods. However, all of the sources and cost figures Scott cited, as well as the accompanying on-screen text, were also contained in a February 10 press release issued by the Senate Republican Communications Center. One on-screen graphic during the segment even repeated a typo from the GOP document, further confirming that Scott was simply reading from a Republican press release. The Fox News graphic and the GOP press release both claimed that a Wall Street Journal report that the stimulus package could reach “$775 billion over two years” was published on December 19, 2009

From the batshit crazy files

Crooks and Liars analyzes Glenn Beck:

I’m not sure what Fox News thought it was getting when it hired Glenn Beck away from CNN, but what they’re getting is one serious train wreck of some of the most gobsmackingly weird and embarrassingly maudlin on-air performances in major-network history. Considering that we’re talking about Fox here, that’s saying something.

On Monday for one of his monologue segments Beck had the camera zoom in on his eyes so people could see them, while another camera kept his headshot in view. It was obvious what they were trying to achieve: Look into his eyes and see his earnest sincerity and you know he’s a guy just like you and me and isn’t that swell and make you feel better, and doesn’t he make sense even when he talks complete lunacy?

The death of irony

Apparently, This Land was NOT Made for You and Me.  Obsidian Wings has the goods.

Joe the wanker

Rick Sanchez tells it like it is.

RIP Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away at age 76.

Good riddance

The Star Tribune appears to be shaking things up.

According to a buyout memo released this afternoon and newsroom sources, Nick Coleman and Katherine Kersten will lose their columns, though they may be able to remain at the paper as reporters.

To put it mildly, that would be a stretch for Kersten, who has never held such a journalism job. Expect a gigantic eruption from the right wing.

Interesting.  Kersten will not be missed, she’s long been the weakest link in so many ways.

Getting it wrong

Seven of the punditocracy’s biggist boo boos from this election cycle.  How many of them did YOU believe?