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100 days of puffery, ballyhoo, hoopla and hype

Iowa flooding looked as bad as many sections of New Orleans. So where was the media? Where was Sean Penn?
Iowa flooding looked as bad as many sections of New Orleans. So where was the media? Where was Sean Penn?
Kudos to Politico’s Richard Benedetto for writing about the way the mainstream media has been covering the Obama presidency in his column “Watchdogs are heeling for Obama”. We would’ve gone a little further and titled the piece “Media lapdogs are lying down for Obama.”

Benedetto’s journalism students gave the media a C+/B- for their covering during the first 100 days. After chronicling a few instances of media double standards in the way similar-to-identical statements made by GWB and BHO were portrayed, the columnist felt a C+ was about right.

His list seemed a bit short. How about the way similar events were covered? One of the major stories that’s been virtually ignored was the Iowa/North Dakota flooding. Remember the overwrought and outright false Katrina coverage? (“10,000 dead”?!)

As a widely circulated conservative-leaning email asked, Where was the hysterical 24/7 media coverage, with reports of lootings, shootings at rescuers, of rapes and murder? Where were the stories of people screaming that Barack Obama hates white, rural people? Where were the government bailout vouchers and government debit cards? Are the values of Iowa and Louisiana residents that different or is the media just that skewed?

What grade would you give the media for their coverage of Obama’s first 100 days? We’d give ’em a D for duplicitous double-standards.

Source: Politico.com

Extra! Extra! Time Magazine sets a new record for presidential butt kissing, puts Obama on cover for 13th time in a year.

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Time magazine’s report on Obama’s First 100 Days begins with a swoon: “Obama’s start has been the most impressive of any President since F.D.R.” At that point we fell asleep faster than Obama’s economic advisor Lawrence Summers.

Does anybody really read Time anymore? Of course not. That was a rhetorical question. Their “news” is always a week old. People must look at it for the exciting pictures, like the behind-the-scenes photo essay consisting of 77 dynamic shots of The One contemplating paintings, moving a chair, and a dandy close-up of his healthy snack consisting of cheese, crackers and a pear. (Yawn.)

Lawrence Summers demonstrates that the stimulus plan is somewhat less than stimulating.
Lawrence Summers demonstrates that the stimulus plan is somewhat less than stimulating.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Sorry. Dozed off at the keyboard. If you manage to get through the story, let us know if there was anything “newsworthy.”

Any guesses as to who will be Time’s next Man of the Year? For the next four years. Maybe eight.

Source: Time Magazine, TMZ.com

Dumb Comment of the Day
“supper excited to find a site entitled ‘I Hate the Media’ but super disappointed to see how far to the right you swing. And come on, Miss California a strong woman? She lost and rightly so. I will continue in my search for unbiased media, until then, I will stick to the best source, NPR.”

Yup, that’s verbatim. We’re excited about supper, too. Mmmm, pot roast tonight.

CNN reporter demonstrates exactly why Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News

Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.

Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.

First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.

We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.

This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.

Bernard Goldberg supports affirmative action – for conservatives in the newsroom.

Bernard Goldberg, author of A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media knows the politics of America’s newsrooms as well as anyone. And that’s why liberals detest him.

“We need newsrooms that not only look like America, but think a little more like America.”

That’s just one quote from the speech he delivered last week at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. But there are a lot more where that came from.

Watch the whole speech. If for no other reason than you know that Barney Frank won’t.

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