Media Bias | Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - Part 87
Accessibility by WAH
Image 01 Image 03
Sign In or RegisterLogout

Media Bias Tag

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2010 10 Comments

I was too busy voting for her to watch the performance.  I really want Bristol to win, so that Sally Quinn has a full blown conniption:My favorite story is that of 67-year-old Steven Cowan who couldn't stand it another minute and blasted his TV with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2010 22 Comments

I'll leave it to others to analyze the legal grounds for the TRO obtained by Sarah Palin and her publisher against the execrable people at Gawker.These are, after all, the same people who went after Meg Whitman's kids and bragged about it, who ran the "one-night stand" hit piece on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2010 3 Comments

I was a guest last Monday of Mark Finkelstein, who writes for NewsBusters, on his Ithaca-based television talk show, The Right Angle.We talked about Legal Insurrection, the elections, the vice-presidential and presidential candidates, and a lot about you know who.   The video is here.   Hopefully...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2010 7 Comments

Via Howard Kurtz (who seems to me to be much more relaxed in his writing and worth reading since he left WaPo), comes a tale of infighting at NBC and MSNBC over Keith Olbermann's politicial contributions and personality:From the moment Olbermann was found to have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2010 8 Comments

The Daily Beast and Newsweek are getting married.  How fitting.  The epitome of the new-age left-wing journals which masquerades as quasi-news organization is acquiring (let's not kid around that it really is a merger of equals) with the dinosaur of left-wing opinion journals which --...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2010 10 Comments

Not the Israelis, Jewish settlers, or American NeoCons.  No, fellow Arabs, via Israel National News, Arabs Stone Israel Ambulances Trying to Save Arab Boy (h/t):Jerusalem area Arabs once again have stoned two Israeli Magen David ambulances trying to help neighbors. This time, the medical rescue vehicles...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2010 10 Comments

If Alan Grayson and Al Franken could do it, why not Keith?  Now that he is suspended indefinitely without pay by MSNBC for failing to disclose his campaign contributions to Democrats, Olbermann can become part of the team, instead of just watching from the bleachers.What other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2010 38 Comments

Or maybe, The Definitive "They Didn't See It Coming" Tweet; or The Definitive "They Don't Get It" Tweet; or The Definitive "Not Seeing The Forest For The Trees" Tweet.  Any other suggestions?You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows:Update: WaPo becomes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2010 1 Comment

Something I want to focus on after the election.Just thought I'd let you know in advance, so you have something to look forward to.--------------------------------------------Posts Which Are Not Related In Any Way To The Title Of This Post:Greg Sargent Demands, But Doesn't Give, Context for Alaska...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2010 14 Comments

David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, has a really important demand which requires everyone's immediate attention:Media Matters' Brock challenges Palin to release tapes"Sarah Palin has made serious accusations of journalistic malfeasance. Either Palin accurately described the tapes, or she did not. America's news consumers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2010 4 Comments

Greg Sargent, who for months has used his megaphone at The Washington Post to twist and turn almost every statement by Sharron Angle into a supposed call for violence or some other thing it was not, now demands Context! for the audio recording in which a CBS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2010 4 Comments

The MoveOn.org provocation against Rand Paul, has inspired an anti-Joe Miller CBS news station in Alaska.The CBS station inadverently left a voice message disclosing its pre-planned coverage of a Miller appearance in the hopes of obtaining footage either of "child molesters" in the crowd or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2010 0 Comments

As my readers know, we have been on a New York Time's cone of silence watch as relates to allegations by an upstate reporter (corroborated at least in part by others) that Congressman Maurice Hinchey assaulted the reporter after the reporter asked tough questions regarding...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2010 5 Comments

What kind of person posts a tweet like this?The same kind of person responsible for running (and still defending) the Christine O'Donnell "one night stand" story.  There is a sickness in our media, and Gawker is one of its primary homes.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Feministe: O'Donnell Getting What She Deserves...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2010 8 Comments

Nevada reporter Jon Ralston, who accused me of being a "disgrace to [his] alma mater" because I pointed out his pro-Harry Reid tilt, finally has made the big time by starring [at 0:14] in Harry Reid's most outlandish commercial yet (as to which even Greg Sargent expresses...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2010 6 Comments

I'm not buying all the phony expressions of outrage from left-bloggers and pundits over the Gawker article about Christine O'Donnell.From the moment she won the primary, O'Donnell was sexualized by the left with the excuse being O'Donnell's 1996 video regarding masturbation.  That 14-year old tape has...