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Whenever someone uses the term “mainstream media,” you can almost be certain it will be meant derisively. For folks on the right, “MSM” is convenient shorthand for talking about a nefarious elite bent on imposing radical leftism, both of the economic and cultural variety, on America. Indeed, despite the journalism profession’s protestations of objectivity, the [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, media
here’s a couple of differing views on the Limbaugh/NFL business. Jay Nordlinger had a little tantrum about it:
Frankly, I’m so angry about this, I’m not sure I should write about it. I’m even a little shaken, and perhaps you are, too. Let me be blunt: The effort to keep Rush Limbaugh from participating in a [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
It looks like Rush Limbaugh won’t be part owner of the Saint Louis Rams. His failure reminds me of his short-lived career as a spokesperson for Florida Orange Juice in 1994. I remember seeing footage of dittoheads wading through angry feminist protesters to purchase orange juice by the case. Not surprisingly, the orange juice mandarins [...]
On Friday, Matt Welch linked to a Columbia Journalism Review article imploring journalists to “Own its Liberalism.” The most interesting part comes at the end:
Although it is the subject for another essay, the fact is that there are very few good conservative reporters. There are many intellectually impressive conservative advocates and opinion leaders, but the [...]
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I hate to say it, but David Brooks is right. Or at least partly right. Even the kingpins of talk radio are electorally negligible, for a reason Brooks doesn’t go into: when you divide up a core listenership — not just casual dial-surfers, but devoted listeners — of a few million people among the 48 [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized, media
Has the media’s recoiling fascination with the Angry White Mobs of health care reform’s roadshow crippled that effort and stalled the Obama administration?
Marshaling evidence to that effect, liberal codger E.J.Dionne, for one, draws the only relevant conclusion: there is no such thing as a “liberal media bias.” In giving the “tea-baggers” all that sneering attention,the [...]
Score one for Gutenberg. The New York Times reports that Amazon.com deleted books from Kindles that weren’t supposed to be sold. I am probably the millionth person to note the irony that the books deleted in such a Big Brother fashion are George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. I checked, and I have copies of [...]
Sarah Palin has an op-ed column in The Washington Post about the cap-and-trade plan recently passed by the house. Unsurprisingly, she has little of value to add to the subject. Palin doesn’t even seem to be aware that the purpose of the legislation is to control carbon emissions driving global warming—she mentions America’s “abundant coal.”
Glenn [...]
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The New York Times is still the most powerful force in journalism — or so the paper tries to reassure its readership today. In the wake of The Daily Show’s hilarious but revealing tour lampooning the NYT’s newsroom culture (also highlighted by Daniel McCarthy on Tory Anarchist), the editors today respond:
The comic got the laugh but missed the larger point (not to [...]
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But I am invented too for your entertainment and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business too?
–”Arthur Frayne”, Zardoz
We played the grooves off of that record. My girlfriend had Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall on vinyl. For a post-adolescent white trash burnout, steeped in [...]