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For the Obama administration and the mainstream media, everything’s relative
Family business
NBC’s Chuck Todd: Obama administration actions on Benghazi ‘very rational’; Update: Link to live video of House hearing added
Audition?
CNN legal analyst: Gosnell media blackout a ‘business decision’ and not evidence of bias
Bottom line
Tom Brokaw on skipping White House Correspondents Dinner: Event has become cheap and undignified ever since Lindsay Lohan stole all our attention last year
Celebrity
Dueling headlines, ‘limited media resources’ edition
MSM staff shortage?
Kermit Gosnell trial update: Plenty of media seating still available
Story blackout
Website of noted cable news network normally concerned about well-being of children ignores story about trial of child murderer
**Written by Doug Powers A Tweet by @sleannbagley led me to submit my own search and make a new screen shot just so the words were a little more readable. As IOwnTheWorld puts it, “a picture is worth a thousand words”: How many stories would have been returned from the search if Gosnell had committed […]
How Piers Morgan keeps people from trespassing
Signs
Totally Objective AP: Virginia GOP passed voter ID law after more modest law failed to prevent Obama from winning
One-way benefit of the doubt
Latest embarrassment from the ‘legitimate news media’: Sarah Palin joining Al Jazeera
Here’s to fact checking
Candy Crowley asks panel: Was Dr. Carson’s prayer breakfast speech offensive?
Decorum concerns
Q: What makes someone who politicizes shootings call for a temporary moratorium on politicizing shootings?
Variables
Matt Lauer on Obama releasing ‘skeet shooting’ photo: Now the president has to back up his words with proof?
Selective Inquisitiveness Syndrome
CNN correspondent at inaugural parade: I feel like I should pinch myself right now
Fawn
Going out of print last year doesn’t seem to have damaged Newsweek’s faith
Comings and goings
NBC’s Chuck Todd: One must understand who owns guns and where they live
Ostracization of the law abiding
Affordable Care Act 101: Classes to teach journalists how to properly report stories about Obamacare set to begin
Instruction
David Gregory’s hard-hitting question for Obama: Is this your Lincoln moment?
Meet the Softballs
Of course: David Gregory granted interview with Obama
Fete the Press
Laws, little people and the public interest: The David Gregory magazine story continues to unfold
Laws for thee
Did NBC’s David Gregory violate DC gun law on Meet the Press?
Immunity
Somebody please give Joe Klein the revised Benghazi talking points
That’s so September
NBC’s Brian Williams & Andrea Mitchell thrilled to think Obama’s presser imitated movie The American President
Devotion
CBS releases more video from 9/12 interview with President Obama: ‘Too early to tell’ if Benghazi a terrorist attack
Timeline
The bias of Bob Schieffer: Top 7 moments
In August, I blasted the Commission on Presidential Debate’s choices of three Beltway lib journo-tools — CNN’s Candy Crowley, PBS’s Jim Lehrer and CBS’s Bob Schieffer. So far, they’ve acted just as expected and predicted. As I noted: While the debate panel trumpeted the gender diversity of its picks, the chromosomal diversity is far outweighed […]
