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My syndicated column today looks at the MSM sneering over Joe Wurzelbacher’s trip to Israel sponsored by PJTV, recounts how The Fraternal Order of the Professional Journalist has squandered its own credibility, and exposes how liberal media elites have attempted to shut out conservatives from membership in the journalism club by redefining their craft [...]

In the tank.

L.A. crimes.

“I now believe the truth here is that I got duped.”

Tick, tick, tick.

“[T]hey certainly don’t have our standards.”

Poser.

My syndicated column today ties the ABC News bigotry sting and the GWU student journalist’s hoax crime together. An excerpt:
You don’t have to be a Harvard University re searcher to figure out that the media is infected with liberal bias – or to realize that some left-wing journalists will use any means necessary to create [...]

MSM stands for media stage management.

Fake and litigious: The $70 million suit.

Update 9:30pm Eastern. Shannon Love at the Chicago Boyz blog called foul on the Lancet 2004 study early on and, with vindication, reacts to David Kane’s new analysis of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study: “Kane shows that if the Falluja cluster is included in the statistical calculations, the confidence interval dips below zero, [...]

First, some corrections: Last week, on John Gibson’s Fox News Channel show, “The Big Story,” I was asked to comment on 9/11 conspiracy theorists and Ron Paul. Here’s the video. In the segment, I referred to “Students and Scholars for Truth.” The accurate name of the group I was referring to is “Student Scholars for [...]

Some MSM types were not too happy about President Bush citing the words of Baghdad bloggers and Pajamas Media editors Omar and Mohammed Fadhil yesterday in his remarks to the press. Check out the anti-blog editorializing in this Associated (with terrorists) Press account:
To back up his point that pulling out of Iraq would be a [...]

Carmen Climaco (right, holding baby): New York Times’ propaganda tool
Remember this name: Carmen Climaco.
The next time you hear a New York Times columnist defend the paper’s commitment to accuracy, fairness, and ethical standards, give them two words: Carmen Climaco.
The next time an MSM apologist denies liberal bias, repeat: Carmen Climaco.
Today’s Vent covers ombudsman Byron [...]

“Who is Jamil Hussein?” is becoming the new “Who is John Galt?”–a blogospheric refrain that both summarizes and challenges MSM apathy about its questionable war reporting.
Townhall’s Mary Katharine Ham is the latest to pose the question in the Washington Examiner.
Historian and Army infantry officer Robert Bateman, using the latest AP scandal over its six burning [...]

This is Peter Hartlaub. He is the San Francisco Chronicle’s pop-culture critic and “helps cover movies, television and the media,” according to his bio. In addition to his newspaper duties, Hartlaub blogs for the paper’s “Culture Blog.” One of his latest posts is an astonishingly ugly, ad hominem attack on Ann Coulter–emblematic of the unhinged, [...]

***update: Reuters has photo fraud detection software…guess they forgot to turn it on…in related news: Ace of Spades revealed…***
I had about 30 seconds to talk about the Reuterization of war journalism on O’Reilly last night, which is just the way it is on cable TV. Thankfully, there are no time limits or topic constraints on [...]

…to his delusions.
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Flashback:

Drudge is hyping Bill Sammon’s new book, “Strategery,” this morning and publishes an interesting passage from the book on the White House’s warm views of the blogosphere and cyberspace.
Or the “ether space,” as President Bush calls it. (At least they got him to stop saying “Internets.”)
“I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly [...]

***At the suggestion of readers, I’m opening up the comments section here for folks who want to send L.H. a personal message…11:13pmEST comments closed…thanks…***
Danish reader L.H. sounds off about CBS News’s blame-the-victim smear attack on Denmark last night on 60 Minutes (video segment available at Expose the Left):
Dear Michelle:
I have just come across your site [...]

Hi, everyone! Hope you have been enjoying the guest-bloggers. Bryan, Lorie, Betsy, and Brian will keep things rocking and rolling through Friday night. I’ve been in six different airports the past three days–exhausted–and will be tied up most of the day on more book flogging. Will try and pop in with a few posts when [...]

Deluded ex-CBS News producer Mary Mapes is still in denial about Rathergate.
Little Green Footballs offers a friendly reality check.
More clue-by-fours here and here.
And here.
And here.
800pm EDT update. Bill at INDC Journal highlights a typical unreality-based passage from Mapes’ book.

Watch him
Vaughn Ververs has a follow-up on Mike Wallace’s appearance at an anti-gun Brady Center event late last month. Ververs responded to an inquiry from NRAnews.com blogger/radio host Cam Edwards, who blew the whistle. Ververs was initially quick to back up Wallace and CBS, but now he is less satisfied:
We were asked what CBS News [...]

Bloggers are already buzzing about David Sifry’s latest “State of the Blogosphere” report, which says that:
-Technorati now tracks 14 Million blogs,
-the number of blogs continues to double every 5.5 months, and
-a new blog is created every second.
These figures are sure to be cited over and over again by both bloggers and MSM reporters as evidence [...]

TV Newser reports that CBS News will soon start a blog called “Public Eye.”
I have a feeling this is going to keep a lot of creative folks in the blogosphere very, very busy.
The Media Blog has more background.

The missing girl case in Aruba continues to hold the attention of millions of TV viewers–and quite a few Internet users as well.
Fox News Channel’s viewership is exploding, and Greta Van Susteren’s show, On the Record, which is leading the way on the story, has numbers through the roof.
In the blogosphere, Dan Riehl of Riehl [...]

Democrat Maurice Hinchey, the N.Y. congressman who claims Karl Rove planted the CBS Rathergate memos, is still unhinged.
Now, he’s blaming “Republican spin” for his junket addiction.
The Federal Review takes down Hinchey’s excuses.

Confederate Yankee and GOP and the City weigh in.

Drudge has the siren spinning over Newsweek’s refusal to accept reporter Michael Isikoff’s resignation. The magazine is making all macho-like in standing up to supposed White House bullying:
“Mike was told he would not be sacrificed, we are standing behind him 100%,” a top magazine source told the DRUDGE REPORT. “We do not, I repeat, do [...]

Here’s a cached copy of a news story, published in the Boston Globe, about a seal hunt that reportedly took place earlier this week. Excerpt:
Over the vigorous protests of international animal-welfare organizations, the largest seal hunt in a half-century resumed yesterday off Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hunters on about 300 boats converged on ice floes, shooting harp [...]

Clinton W. Taylor has a troubling piece in The American Spectator online analyzing a Spanish media report (spotlighted Friday by Barcepundit) about possible sales of WMD to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
Taylor writes:
President Chavez may be a thuggish autocrat, but he isn’t stupid enough to use chemical or biological weapons against American civilians, at least [...]