Earmarks Buy ObamaCare

Do you want a good laugh?  Check out this press release from January 18, 2006:

Democrats from across the country today unveiled their Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. In the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, were joined by Senator Barack Obama and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and their Senate and House colleagues to shine a spotlight on the Republican “pay for play” politics that put special interests first at the expense of the priorities of the American people and signed a pledge to restore honest leadership and open government.

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Tags: AP, Barack Obama, Esaminer, Harry Reid, Michelle Malkin
Posted Dec 21st 2009 at 2:28 pm in Congress, Healthcare | 5006689 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/12/21/earmarks-buy-obamacare/Earmarks+Buy+ObamaCare2009-12-21+22%3A28%3A38Brian+Darling

AP Global Warming Fauxtography? (UPDATED)

Is the Associated Press distributing a doctored photo that news organizations are now running in their Copenhagen coverage?

Founding Bloggers’ very own, Allan Sluis, is calling attention to an image that just might be the latest example of what has come to be know as “Fauxtography” – or – passing doctored images off as good faith representations of reality.

Below is a detailed examination of the image, beginning with the shot as it was displayed Monday, December 7th, on Foxnews.com (Fox link via SPQA.org):

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Tags: AP, Associated Press, climategate, Fauxtography, Founding Bloggers
Posted Dec 9th 2009 at 2:22 pm in Media Criticism, News, Politics | 43430132 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/09/ap-global-warming-fauxtography-updated/AP+Global+Warming+Fauxtography%3F+%28UPDATED%292009-12-09+22%3A22%3A12Andrew++Marcus

Axelrod and Emanuel Help Shape ACORN Coverage?

1.  Fox News is not really a legitimate news source because it has a ‘point of view’ and

2.  We encourage all legitimate news networks to stop treating them as if they are legitimate.

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Tags: ABC, Andrew Breitbart, AP, Barack Obama, CBS
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 11:00 am in ACORN, Media Criticism, Politics | 1945889 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sright/2009/10/22/axelrod-and-emanuel-help-shape-acorn-coverage/Axelrod+and+Emanuel+Help+Shape+ACORN+Coverage%3F2009-10-22+18%3A00%3A48Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

The Media’s Complicity: Analysis of ACORN Coverage

The mainstream media were complicit in their coverage of the ACORN scandal. Their behavior was and continues to be an insult to democracy and journalistic responsibility as the Fourth Estate has ignored facts, engaged in one-sided sourcing, and avoided basic and inherently important journalistic questioning.

First, there was avoidance. Some media outlets simply ignored the story. On Sept. 15, five days after the Maryland tape was released, ABC’s Charlie Gibson said, “I don’t even know about it… so you’ve got me at a loss” and said that the story might be “just one you leave to the cables.” But, Gibson was not alone in his lack of knowledge. The New York Times did not cover the story for nearly a week. On Sept. 26, Clark Hoyt, The Times’ Public Editor, acknowledged the paper’s tardiness, but insinuated that the story was lacking in facts:

But for days, as more videos were posted and government authorities rushed to distance themselves from Acorn, The Times stood still.  Some stories, lacking facts, never catch fire…But others do, and a newspaper like The Times needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself.

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Tags: ABC, ACORN, ACORN Los Angeles, ACORN Miami, ACORN New York
Posted Oct 21st 2009 at 10:03 am in ACORN, Media Criticism | 18734182 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bhallowell/2009/10/21/the-medias-complicity-analysis-of-acorn-coverage/The+Media%27s+Complicity%3A+Analysis+of+ACORN+Coverage2009-10-21+17%3A03%3A23Billy+Hallowell

American Spectator: Big Media Ignores ACORN Scandal

From the American Spectator:

Here’s the Saturday morning round-up on the Census Bureau story for the formerly mainstream media, checking out their home Web pages:

Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, CBS News, CNN Sucks — story isn’t there. WashPost did run a piece about the Big Government expose’ in DC.

MSNBC, to its credit, posted a link to an AP version of the story near the top of their homepage. Some of the others above have the AP story too, but they don’t headline it on their homepages. This is significant because all the major news organizations have an auto-feed of wire service stories to their sites — MSNBC just took the trouble to link it from their homepage.

Fox News of course has followed the story all along, and the Washington Times ran the AP version.

And kudos to ABC News (top of their homepage) and reporter Jake Tapper. Unlike the other lazy and indifferent bureaus listed above, Tapper stayed on the story doing original reporting, crediting Fox News and Big Government for their scoops, embedded one of James O’Keefe’s YouTube videos in his story, and got a response that no one else did:

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Tags: ABC News, AP, Associated Press, CBS News, Census Bureau
Posted Sep 12th 2009 at 6:53 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism, News | 1630139 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/12/american-spectator-big-media-ignores-acorn-scandal/American+Spectator%3A+Big+Media+Ignores+ACORN+Scandal2009-09-13+01%3A53%3A01Publius