Media Report
Media, Bias
By Andy Selepak Accuracy in Media
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Television has always pushed the envelope and often past the point of bad taste, but Monday night's episode of Two and a Half Men did not just push the envelope, it ripped the envelope in half. Then, CBS burned and threw it in the trash, where this show truly belongs.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
In an exclusive interview with AIM, Jim Thompson says that he decided to yank CNN and CNN Headline News from the televisions in his Stoney Creek Inn hotel chain because of the "disgusting tone" and "arrogant" nature of CNN's defense of airing terrorist sniper videos. Thompson said that CNN was guilty of "aiding and abetting the enemy" and that it had compromised its reputation as a credible media outlet.
By Andy Selepak Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
It seems that many in our media want to elect Senator Barack Hussein Obama as president. In fact, the October 23, 2006 issue of Time magazine ran a cover story with Obama's picture and the headline, "Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President." In another edition, Time magazine named Obama one of "the world's most influential people," and included him on a list of 20 "Leaders and Revolutionaries." What's behind the media hype?
By Andy Selepak Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Soft-on-crime liberals are wringing their hands over the number of Americans in jail. But rather than urge "alternatives to incarceration" or the wholesale opening of jail and prison cells, one answer might be to do something about the media and entertainment industries glorifying violence and the "thug life."
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Faced with outrage over airing a video showing terrorists shooting and killing American soldiers in Iraq, CNN is auctioning off a Hummer it used to cover the liberation of Iraq in order to raise money for wounded vets.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Monday, January 8, 2007
Bill Clinton was back on CNN on World AIDS Day being portrayed as an expert on how to stop AIDS. It shows how the media will not let any of Clinton's sex scandals interfere with his public rehabilitation. The Clinton answer, which is quite unique, is to use an international airline tax to buy more anti-AIDS drugs of dubious value.
By Rondi Adamson, Brussels Journal
Monday, January 8, 2007
Canadians are not known for the quality of the television they produce. Yet a Canadian sitcom set to debut on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) next week is getting slightly more publicity than Gulf Wars I and II combined. And not just in Canada.
By Andy Selepak Accuracy in Media
Friday, January 5, 2007
Gone are the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the Rat Pack, who engaged in questionable behavior but kept it private. These days Americans are left with semi-celebrities like Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton. And like never before these semi-talented semi-celebrities are on the front cover of major magazines, in the tabloids, in the news, and on our televisions, and worst of all, influencing young girls across the country on what it takes to be famous, or more appropriately, infamous.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Brent Bozell wrote an excellent column on the launch of Al-Jazeera English, making the point that the liberals who always decry U.S. government-funded "propaganda," mostly in the form of news releases, don't mind the Arab government-funded propaganda on this new channel. In fact, many liberal publications have welcomed the prospect of having this propaganda piped directly into American living rooms.
By Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Canada's role in the war in Afghanistan was chosen as the top Canadian news story of
2006. In the annual poll of news editors and broadcasters, conducted by the
Canadian Press and Broadcast News, the war was chosen by an overwhelming margin
as the year's top story. The Afghan conflict garnered 91 votes, far ahead of
the 44 votes that went to the second place story – the election of
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives last January.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Friday, December 29, 2006
Dave Daubenmire, known as "Coach," has a good track record of acting on his conservative beliefs. In 1999 he was sued by the ACLU for praying with his teams while coaching high school in Ohio. Now he's going up against several prominent conservative radio talk show hosts, saying, "With the exception of Michael Savage, all of them are nothing more than Republican shills." He calls the bulk of conservative talk radio "bilge."
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Friday, December 29, 2006
Fox News took another turn for the worst when it started airing a new show hosted by Erich "Mancow" Muller, a loud-mouth shock jock whose radio program was the subject of repeated indecency complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. Muller's employer admitted the essence of the charges, paid a substantial fine of $300,000, and let Muller go in 2005. Fox News has tried to make him a star.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Friday, December 22, 2006
The left-wing critics of Fox News have seized on a memo from an official of the channel telling correspondents to be on the lookout for any statements from Iraqi terrorist groups thrilled by the Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress. It turns out that al Qaeda in Iraq did issue a statement welcoming the Democratic victory. Isn't this newsworthy? Shouldn't news executives have been on the look-out for a blockbuster story like this?
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, December 21, 2006
A trend is developing whereby reporters for the New York Times let their hair down, drop any pretense of objectivity, and ream the Bush Administration. First it was Linda Greenhouse, the Times Supreme Court reporter. Now it's James Risen, the Times reporter who revealed the administration's highly classified NSA terrorist-surveillance program.
By Roger Arnoff, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, December 21, 2006
In a last-minute dirty trick before the election, The New York Times took a story and twisted it in such a way as to damage the Bush Administration. This will go down as a case study of media bias intended to sway votes.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Wednesday December 20, 2006
My column of disgust over Rupert Murdoch's "Family Guy" promos during NFL football on Sunday afternoon generated interesting responses. Greg Allen of the Accent Radio Network had me on to talk about it. He agreed with my concerns and said he was sick and tired of sleazy Fox programs, too.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The election results have caused knowledgeable conservatives to conclude that the much-vaunted conservative media isn't as powerful as they thought it was. While conservative radio hosts are on hundreds of radio stations, taxpayer-supported public radio has 800 affiliates. Its bias, usually presented as objectve journalism, has a real impact on people.
By Roger Arnoff, Accuracy in Media
Friday, December 15, 2006
Much has been made of Rush Limbaugh's post-election comment that he was tired of carrying the water for the Republicans. That admission made it clear that he was being a Republican first, a conservative second. But it's one thing when Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken goes on a partisan crusade; it's quite another when the New York Times does so.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
News corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch's decision to cancel the O.J. Simpson book and interview demonstrated the corporate power behind Fox Broadcasting and Fox News and how divisions of the company are related to each other.
By Arthur Weinreb
Friday, December 1, 2006
Misleading headlines are just one way that the print media uses to slant their news. A recent example occurred in the Ottawa Sun’s reporting of the results of the byelections that were held in two Canadian ridings this past week. The article reported that Raymond Gravel, the male hooker turned priest turned politician had easily won his Montreal area riding for the Bloc Quebecois. The other riding that was up for grabs was that of London North Centre where the Liberals managed to hold on to the seat that Joe Fontana vacated in order to run for mayor in London’s recent municipal elections.
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Northeast Intelligence Network,
Monday, November 6, 2006
The news in a recent New York Times that pertains to the publication and accessibility of documents from pre-war Iraq serves as a fitting example of the Gray Lady’s position as a post menopausal “bitter spinster” of America. Like an old maid in a diverse American family, she seems to enjoy a certain level of perverse satisfaction by attacking the very people who provide her with all of the comforts, safety, and security she currently enjoys. In her attempt to stay relevant as the matriarch of America, her behavior has become embarrassing to those inside of her family, and an amusing side show to others. She cannot hide her irascibility as she lashes out against the moral self-confidence of America.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Monday, November 6, 2006
Writing in USA Today, State Department official Karen Hughes wondered why there has been no universal condemnation of international terrorism. "Offensive cartoons sparked massive protests in nations across the Islamic world," she said. "The international outcry was immediate when civilians were killed in the recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Yet we have seen no similar mass condemnation of terrorist violence and murder…"
By Nathan Tabor
Sunday, November 5, 2006
I find it interesting that, in today’s maniacal media world, conservatives are taken to task for every syllable they utter, but liberals are given a pass.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, November 2, 2006
The editorial must have been a surprise to those Post readers unfamiliar with how Rupert Murdoch has been moving left.
An influential voice in the "conservative media" has jumped ship. The New York Post has endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Senate over a solid conservative, John Spencer. It's another sign that Post owner Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation is also the parent of the Fox News Channel, is moving to the left.
By John Burtis
Friday, October 27, 2006
The doctors are reporting on the state of the liberal press and there's no good news in sight.
Even as chinks appear in the once pristine and shiny granite edifice of the Democratic coup d'etat once seen approaching on every glittering radar scope, there is growing evidence surfacing in the final few weeks before E-Day that it all may be a close run thing and not a cake walk.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
We've said repeatedly that Fox News performs a public service. The channel was created to appeal to conservatives, who lacked a media voice on the national stage, and they responded. But some of the things being said about Fox News on its 10th anniversary are just silly. It is not a right-wing channel, as left-wingers always charge, and it does not promptly correct its errors. In fact, some of them are never corrected.
By Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
CTV, at least at first blush seems absolutely obsessed with the exchange that took place last week between Liberal MP David McGuinty and Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mackay. While Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was answering a question about the government's Clean Air Act, McGuinty began heckling Mackay. He said something to the effect that if Mackay didn't care about the effect of climate change on people, "What about your dog?" The reference to Mackay's dog stems from what Peter Mackay did after girlfriend Belinda Stronach dumped him at the same time she dumped the Conservative Party. Peter did what most of us would do in a similar situation; he sought solace in the middle of a potato patch with his trusted dog. He just needed to be alone with his dog and of course a reporter from CP and a CBC camera crew. As taunts in the House of Commons go, McGuinty's was excellent; if only Ontario Premier Dalton had his brother's quick wit, but I digress.
By Arthur Weinreb
Friday, October 20, 2006
Well, that depends upon which news you read, listen to or watch.
Aishah Azmi, 24, was employed as a teaching assistant (teaching English as a second language to 11-year-olds) in a school in Dewsbury in the north of England. Almost a year ago, Azmi was suspended from her job for refusing to remove her niqab, the Muslim veil that covers the entire face except for a slit across the eyes. It was not an insignificant fact that Azmi was not wearing the veil when she applied for her position. Children had complained that they had trouble understanding her when she spoke through her veil.
by Arthur Weinreb
Friday, October 6, 2006
Since last Monday's school shooting in Pennsylvania, the media can only be described as having an obsession with the Amish. Charles Carl Roberts, 32, walked into an Amish one room school house in Nickel Mines PA and ordered the boys out. He then bound the little girls and shot several of them in the head, execution style, before killing himself. Five little girls were killed and others were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
by Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
A rally was held last Friday at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto to show support for our troops in Afghanistan. The rally was attended by about 3,500 people who formed a sea of red to show support for the men and women who are serving in the Canadian military. The names of the 37 soldiers who gave up their lives in Afghanistan since 2002 were read out and the speakers included the father of a slain soldier and Canadian icon, singer Gordon Lightfoot.
by Arthur Weinreb
Monday, September 18, 2006
The media that is so good at doing in depth analysis of governments and other industries can never seem to examine the role of the media in today's society. A good illustration of the media ignoring the role of the media can be found in the editorial that appeared in the Toronto Sun last Thursday, the day after the shootings at Dawson College in Montreal.
By Nathan Tabor
Saturday, September 16, 2006
In the last few years, we've witnessed the ongoing battle between newspapers like the New York Times and the federal government and the "right" of newspapers to hold their sources confidential. The audacity of the Times to release classified secret or top secret information because of the industry's classic "the people have a right to know" argument was highlighted by NYT executive editor Bill Keller's decision to release info about the National Security Agency's efforts to monitor phone calls without court-approved warrants.
By Nathan Tabor
Thursday, September 7, 2006
I can't exactly remember the last time I watched the CBS Evening News. It might have been sometime during the infamous "Memogate" fiasco, the resulting being the heave-ho of Dan Rather. After Dan's departure, the chair behind the anchor desk at CBS was kept warm for 18 months by veteran news broadcaster Bob Schieffer.
By Gary Reid
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Count me in as one of the"usual suspects." In this case, I join the ranks of "post-Christian churches (whatever they are), the Marxists, the fellow travelers and fifth columnists" who Toronto Sun columnist, Michael Coren, dismisses as irrelevant to his completely inane call to arms in a recent column: We should nuke Iran.
by Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
The Toronto Sun, "the little paper that grew", has always had a reputation of being on the right of the political spectrum as well as having a populist bent. Now, it is difficult to determine if the newspaper has any consistent view of the world editorially. Lately some of their positions have been simply bizarre and Monday's editorial and comments are examples of the paper's now fuzzy thinking.
by Arthur Weinreb
Thursday, August 24, 2006
" TARGET="_blank">Earlier this month, CBC aired a news item from a Conservative caucus meeting that was being held in Cornwall Ontario. The piece showed a woman dressed in a chador outside of the building where the Tories were meeting. Referring to the war in the Middle East, she said that the burning of children and the killing has to stop. Her clip was followed by one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaking at a press conference, saying that he was not concerned or preoccupied with reactions to his policies within certain communities and that those actions were predictable.
by Arthur Weinreb
Friday, August 18, 2006
Editorially at least, the Toronto Sun is coming close to the Toronto Star in the way it views the world.
As with other Toronto media, the Sun devoted pages and pages of ink to the 16th International Conference on AIDS that saw over 20,000 delegates descend on Toronto this week.
By Slublog, www.slublog.com
Friday, August 11, 2006
In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence.
He was wrong.
As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors.
By John Burtis
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
There is so much honest news to peddle, I don’t know why the media is offering us so much pure visible tommyrot when it comes to the Israeli attacks, unless they openly favor Hezbollah and have an axe to grind.
by Arthur Weinreb
Monday, August 7, 2006
The CBC hasn’t quite come to terms with the fact that there is an alternate media out there and they won’t get away with the blatant manipulation of the truth that occurred last week.
By John Burtis
Monday, August 7, 2006
First there was Qana I.
In 1996 Israel conducted a 16-day military operation, dubbed the "Grapes of Wrath," to destroy or degrade Hezbollah’s ability to launch Katyusha rockets into its northern environs.
By Marc Morano
Saturday, August 5, 2006
The August 3 New York Times op-ed by Bob Herbert titled "Hot Enough Yet," makes several dubious global warming claims. See: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/opinion/03herbert.html?hp Herbert promotes the idea that the recent heat wave that has swept across the United States is another example of human caused catastrophic global warming. But the facts do not support this latest example of climate hysteria.
By John Burtis
Friday, August 4, 2006
In its last gasps a large animal is known to thrash around. Dinosaur fossils are often found in a classic death pose, with their heads bent backwards and their tails twisted up.
By Alan Caruba
Monday, July 31, 2006
In times of war, the last person you want in the foxhole with you is a liberal. They are always desperately looking for a white flag to wave. They are always trying to "understand" the enemy and excuse his bad behavior.
By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Finally, Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists could not make their regularly scheduled Western media propaganda appointments. It was left to CNN’s Larry King to show up, live — on Sunday, July 23, to relay the devastating news.
by Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Members of the Toronto area Hindu community held a vigil on Saturday in front of the Consulate of India. In a press release issued by the Hindu Conference of Canada, the organization’s president, Venkat Nagarajan, said "India’s current government has failed to protect Hindus from the virulent onslaught of radical Islam. We are calling on the government of India to take firm action against Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorists and terminate unproductive peace talks with Pakistan."
By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Have you heard? Have you heard the news? President Bush cussed out Hezbollah. At the conclusion of the recent G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Bush was "caught" on tape, chomping on a bread-roll, venting an expletive at Syria to rein in Hezbollah to stop this "sh--."
By John Burtis
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Hard on the heels of the revelations in Real Clear Politics of Pinch Sulzberger’s sad discovery that Karl Rove has been a managing employee of the New York Times for many years, where he has presided over the recent fiascoes which have so dogged the Times, Mr. Jonathan Klein, CNN’s feckless US President, has notified the world that he has discovered problems of a similar nature at his failing fog factory.
by Nathan Tabor
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
This past week as we celebrated America’s independence, I was struck by this item that crossed the electronic news site of record, the Drudge Report: Britons See U.S. as Vulgar Empire Builder.
by Arthur Weinreb, Associate Editor,
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Many people think that people who live in this country should not be referred to as hyphenated Canadians. Those that think this way will be happy to learn that the Toronto Sun is in full agreement. But while others think that citizens of Canada should just be referred to as Canadians, the Sun is determined to drop the "Canadian" part of the hyphenated definition.
By John Burtis
Sunday, July 2, 2006
With the publication of the location, security details, and the local topography surrounding Mr. Rumsfeld’s home in Maryland in its June 30th Escape section on second homes, as well as similar information on that of Mr. Cheney, in the thinly held guise of public interest, a vaporous veil if there ever was one, the New York Times has seemingly retaliated for being called to task for its incessant hobbling of the war on terror through its repeated release of classified programs over the objections of the Bush administration.
By Gary Reid
Monday, June 12, 2006
I have been monitoring a lot of newspaper chatter about the implications of the arrests of 17 alleged terrorists in Canada. Much of it is simple common sense; the matter is before the courts, let’s just let the justice system deal with them; the vast majority of the Muslims in this country are peaceable, etc.
by Arthur Weinreb, Associate Editor,
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Writing in this Sunday’s Toronto Sun, Sharon Ho penned a column entitled, "Arrests heard round the world". Ms. Ho reported that the arrests of 12 men and 5 young offenders in the Toronto area on terrorism related charges found its way to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, The Bangkok Post, CNN and most other international media.
By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Friday, June 2, 2006
You gotta give it to the loon-left. These peace-prattlers pack a heckuva Kentucky long gun.
Just weeks ago, the story was not the spectacular gun registry overruns. Heck no. The story was the leak. Who (read: "Conservatives!!!") leaked the imminent Auditor General’s report of the overruns?
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