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

Tick, tick, tick.

Trust.

Setting the record straight.

Damn those bloggers.

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.

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

One thing is clear from those who are cackling over news that Sen. Mel Martinez’s legal counsel, Brian Darling, is the author of the so-called GOP/Schiavo Talking Points Memo: Your reading comprehension level is lower than my 17-month-old son’s. And he’s just started reading picture books.
Giddy e-mailers are demanding that conservative bloggers, including myself, “retract” [...]

[Bumping to the top with lots of updates. Make sure to catch up on all the latest below. This is one of the biggest stories on the 'Net and of vital interest to bloggers and whistleblowers on both sides of the border. Stay informed.]
Captain Ed, always ahead of the curve, is all over an [...]

You’re gonna love this.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes about the Schiavo memo once again, finally acknowledging that the Post did indeed report that the talking points were “distributed to Republican senators by party leaders.”
The flap about a Washington Post report on an unsigned strategy memo in the Terri Schiavo case, which the [...]

In an online Q&A, Terry Neal, washingtonpost.com’s Chief Political Correspondent, answers a reader’s question regarding the Schiavo “GOP Talking Points” memo:
Arlington, Va.: Both the Post and ABC incorrectly reported that the memo was distributed by Republican leaders, and described it as a GOP memo. When will we see a correction?…
Terry Neal: This is what [...]

First, a new tidbit to report on the Schiavo talking points memo mess.
I spoke with the Seattle Times’ chief copy editor (4/3 1153 correction) National/Foreign Editor, Jim Mallery, yesterday. He confirmed that this article was excerpted directly from a Washington Post article distributed by the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. The statement that [...]

It has now been nearly a week since Power Line first raised troubling questions about the “GOP Talking Points” memo distributed to Republicans in the Senate. It has been three days since Power Line and In the Agora quoted an ABC News official who appeared to be backing away from the assertion that the memo [...]