Negative Space: media bias
- ABC News: Toyota targeted Gabby Giffords!
- Diane Sawyer ABC News special claims Toyota targeted popular congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
- Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls
- A member of the “Know-It-All Syndicate” offers advice to Sarah Palin on how to step down from politics and return to the kitchen.
- CNN Jeopardy in Occupy Denver
- The CNN reporter, talking to Lt. Robert King, asked “Is it fair to say the trouble-makers are not necessarily affiliated with the Occupy movement?”
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- Death-page 2000
- Ad-blocking is no longer boring. Don’t just block those ads. Shoot them down like the space debris they are!
- End of media; to delete this media…
- There will be a crisis: but this time they got caught manufacturing their crisis. And it’s a crisis of a most despicable kind: falsely tying a candidate to child molestation.
- Greta Van Susteren calls out media on hypocritical misogyny
- Our media is a bunch of misogynistic hypocrites.
- A horse chestnut or a newspaper or a news show?
- Abraham Lincoln once famously asked whether a horse chestnut or a chestnut horse are the same thing. The mainstream media have started dropping a whole lot of horse chestnuts over Sarah Palin. It’s hard to imagine this is anything but bias, but it could be abject stupidity.
- How biased is Fox News?
- I know it’s cliched to talk about media bias, but this interview struck me because it is supposedly an example of the most conservative bias you’ll find on the mainstream media.
- The Make-Believe Media’s New Normal
- Whoever wins the election will be the new Sarah Palin. But they’re all acting like John McCain, obliviously unaware that the press might turn on them the moment they win the primary.
- The media machine is calling me an asshole
- One side of the debt ceiling debate threatened to destroy our economy. One side just wanted to get along. One side wanted to restore fiscal sanity. Which side was extremist?
- The media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- Netflix lobbies Washington, Google lobbies press
- Netflix is following other tech companies into political lobbying, and Google lobbies the press as well.
- Only if you’re paying them
- If I lost my job, I’d be paying less in taxes, too.
- Resistance to media bias is unexpected
- It’s amazing how unprepared the biased media is when people don’t play along with their bias.
- There will be deception
- As their world falls apart, media liars will get better at lying.
- There will be lies
- The media takes a blunder by Coons on the first amendment—and outright changes what both candidates said to make it look like a blunder by O’Donnell.
- They will sow dissension
- Part I: They will sow dissension. There’s a war brewing at Fox! and Sarah Palin isn’t really a hunter.
For true?
- Trickle down lying: What Wisconsin teaches us about the national news media
- On the one hand, “cut budgets, not costs” is a very California theology, so it’s not impossible that it exists in Wisconsin, too. On the other hand, when all the news is biased, it’s amazing that Walker gets as much support as he does.
- World News Tonight vs. the Sirens of the Internet
- News organizations haven’t yet seemed to figure out that Iraq is a democracy. It isn’t up to George Bush to sack or not sack their Prime Minister.
- You can’t play an honest media
- Sarah Palin gets credit, when she’s not being accused of being unintelligent, of being smart enough to play the media for fools. But she isn’t: she’s telling everyone what she plans to do, why she did what she did; the media just isn’t listening. Then they write something stupid and the LA Times writes about how well she “played” them.
But you can’t play a media that’s doing its job.
More Information
- Let’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President
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“This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Does It Ever Cross Their Mind That Sarah Palin Might Actually Know Something?!
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“They have spent the last few years convincing themselves that Palin is stupid and uneducated and they have forgotten that this simply isn’t true. She isn’t dumb. She’s just a down-to-earth woman with a funny accent. And if you keep acting like she is dumb, you’re going to keep making yourself look stupid.”
- Memebusters! The Osama Bin Laden Edition
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“Genes carry hereditary information. MEMES carry cultural information. Problem is, many memes are defective—they’re based on falsehoods. We used to have an immune system—called the ‘press’—that caught errors. Now the ‘press’ generates most of the falsehoods themselves.”
- KTVA smear caught on voicemail
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“And the one thing we can do is… we won’t know… we won’t know but if there is any sort of chaos whatsoever we can put out a twitter/facebook alert: saying what the… ‘Hey Joe Miller punched at rally.’”
