Mainstream Media
“Exit polls show voters unhappy with economy, both parties” says Associated Press headline. Related: Guess who’s been repeatedly Googling the words “exit polls” for the last 10 minutes or so?
Oh, it sounds so good, doesn’t it? PolitiFact will fact check politicians to see what is true and not. But, as we’ve been pointing out here and there, PolitiFact can be used as another vehicle to slant political news coverage, albeit under the guise of “fair and balanced” fact checking. Justin has already explained how…
I wonder if anybody at the Providence Journal — particularly on the PolitiFact crew — is concerned that, every few days, Cynthia Needham whacks a big chunk of their organization’s credibility off the table in the service of David Cicilline’s Congressional campaign. Last week, she gave David Cicilline a “mostly true” rating for his claim…
It was yesterday’s big news online, so it’ll surely be in the paper today: Long-time NPR political analyst Juan Williams has been fired for comments that he made while a guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show: The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a Fox News political analyst, appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor”…
The article’s a couple of weeks old, but it’s still worth noting a bit of writing that I don’t think Projo journalist Felice Freyer or her editors would have allowed into print if they weren’t fundamentally in favor of government healthcare: The increases will pay for the coverage of dependents through age 26 and preventive…
Frankly, if the folks behind the Providence Journal’s PolitiFact feature wish not to lose entirely the salable premise thereof — its neutrality — mere months from its introduction, they should ban Cynthia Needham from touching the Truth-O-Meter. Monique made mention of Needham’s take-down of Republican Congressional candidate John Loughlin, last week, but the matter deserves…
Although I’m sympathetic to dislike of the e-reader technology that is displacing print media, it is most definitely not for the reason that Dan Bloom enunciates: Well, be careful what you wish for. Frankenpapers might turn out to be another turn in the screw that seals the decline of the republic. Think about it. With…
I’ve been meaning to note Bob Kerr’s continued function as the elder statesman who says what the younger folks must strive to keep to themselves at the Providence Journal. Here’s the crux of his Wednesday column: You might remember protest. It’s an honored American tradition. It’s how this whole thing got started. People speak out…
The “Truth”-O-Meter in today’s Providence Journal rates Congressional candidate John Loughlin’s comparison of social security to a Ponzi scheme as “False”. Let’s take a look, shall we? Here’s the definition of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by…
As of Monday’s edition, the Providence Journal had still not deigned to mention Congressional testimony about racial bias in Obama’s Department of Justice. Indeed, yesterday’s paper revisited the apparently more-important testimony of comedian Stephen Colbert that migrant farm workers do work that a Hollywood celebrity might find arduous. Curiously, as well, Sunday’s paper featured an…
