In a piece about Elon Musk’s hosting Saturday Night Live, Washington Post showbiz writer Steve Zeitchik suggested executive producer Lorne Michaels had no choice in previous inicidents but to fire or disinvite others from the show because the Twitterati had found them unworthy. Of course, Michaels and other similarly situated executives do have a choice. They can choose courage. Read more…
‘Yellow Lives Don’t Matter’ to LeBron James and Adam Silver
Hey, Lebron and Commissioner Silver! Your commie pals just extended the prison sentence of another skinny kid in Hong Kong. Enjoy your weekend. Read more…
NPR’s ‘Voter Suppression’ Rap on New Florida Law Ignores Minority Voting Trends
Like much media coverage of red states’ recent legislative efforts to ensure the integrity of their election processes, NPR today unfairly characterized Florida’s new law as “un-American” “voter suppression.” But such bias overlooks the fact that minority voters are increasingly inclined to give GOP candidates a chance. Read more…
As Congress, Courts Let Executive Branch Assume More Authority, Complacent Media Stop Asking ‘Balance of Power’ Questions
Most news organizations routinely questioned the Trump administration’s authority to act without express approval from Congress or the courts, but that was a brief exception to a 25-year trend toward blithe acceptance of ever greater power accumulating in an aggressive executive branch. Now that the Biden administration has announced plans to waive the patent rights of Covid vaccine makers, the media aren’t even bothering to ask about its legal authority for doing so. Read more…
‘How We Relied on Anonymous Political Hacks in Federal Law Enforcement Again and Got Another Story Wrong’
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi’s piece this morning admits to yet another erroneously accusatory story fed by anonymous sources with an obvious political ax to grind against anyone with a Trump connection. But rather than identify those partisan liars and take a stand for journalistic integrity, Farhi effectively blames the erroneously accused — in this instance, Rudy Giuliani — for not correcting reporters quickly enough. Read more…
A: This straight white male sports star doesn’t have a chance of getting the ‘Jeopardy!’ job. Q: Who Is Aaron Rodgers?
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay is the latest columnist or sports talker to delude him or herself in recent weeks about the chances of straight white male Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers being named as the permanent replacement for the late, great Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek. Read more…
Careful What You Wish For, Woketivists, Because Classified Evidence May Implicate Farrakhan in Malcolm’s Murder
The Washington Post published in its Sunday edition a several thousand-word story that helps promote, albeit with some healthy skepticism, a recent effort by an indebted nephew of a deceased former NYPD detective to peddle as authentic a supposedly confessional letter that suggests police and the FBI were aware of but did nothing to stop the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Not surprisingly, the once respected civil rights attorney turned opportunistic charlatan Ben Crump has thrown his high-profile support to the ne‘er-do-well nephew’s publicity campaign. Read more…
Radical Left Counts on Media to Amplify Divisive Cries of ‘Racism!’ ‘Anti-Semitism!’ or Whatever
Most irresponsible media, includinig the Washington Post, unhesitatingly report the radical left’s latest indiscriminate charge of racism or anti-Semitism or some other ‘ism or phobia that may fit a given day’s politics. But then they almost always forget to follow up after the charges fall apart. Read more…
Did Poll’s Methodology Control for Respondents’ Biases?
Reporting on a new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that pandemic-imposed financial woes have hit women and minorities harder than they’ve hit inherently reprehensible white men. But to what extent might poll results have been influenced by traditional and more recent, media-inspired biases? Read more…
Missing from Coverage, Part 2: John Kerry
While many news outlets the world over prominently featured leaked audio recordings of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif alleging, among other things, that former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had perhaps traitorously compromised intelligence information about Israeli military actions, the Washington Post buried bland coverage that seemed to go out of its way to keep Mr. Kerry’s name out of it. Read more…