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		<title>Networks Spent 70% More Time Attacking GOP Staffer Than Covering Gruber</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 02:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two network news vans camped outside of Lauten’s parents home]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s gotten so bad <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/12/02/networks-spend-more-time-gop-staffer-comments-gruber-scandal">that watching network news should be </a>considered a contribution to the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>When the architect of ObamaCare was caught repeatedly calling Americans stupid and taking apart the myth that ObamaCare was anything other than a giant scam, the network news only reluctantly covered it and then mainly to play defense once the story had gone viral.</p>
<p>But a minor Republican staffer suggesting that Obama&#8217;s daughters should dress more nicely for official events led to a firestorm of coverage.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Sunday and Monday, the broadcast networks seized on the personal Facebook comments of mid-level congressional staffer Elizabeth Lauten criticizing the Obama daughters – devoting over 14 minutes of national news air time to the controversy in the period of two days. However, it took those same networks several days to even notice the video comments of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber crediting &#8220;the stupidity of the American voter&#8221; for passage of the law – providing only 8 minutes of coverage to the much larger scandal.</p>
<p>Amazingly, NBC, ABC, and CBS gave Lauten approximately 70% more coverage than Gruber.</p></blockquote>
<p>They only wished it could have been the full 100%.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://freebeacon.com/culture/media-in-frenzy-over-hill-staffers-comments-on-obamas-daughters/">Washington/Amazon Post got so desperate</a> that it assigned a foreign affairs writer to dig through her college paper articles and found nothing.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two network news vans camped outside of Lauten’s parents home in North Carolina on Tuesday, one day after she resigned as communication director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R., Tenn.) due to the controversy. Lauten was not at the house.</p>
<p>That morning, the Washington Post also assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007.</p></blockquote>
<p>If only Lauten had invented ObamaCare, the media wouldn&#8217;t cover her if she detonated a nuclear bomb on Fifth Avenue.</p>
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		<title>AP Covered Up Hamas Attacks on its Own Reporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it."]]></description>
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<p>Another tidbit from <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/5/">Mattie Friedman&#8217;s Atlantic piece </a>on Israel and the media.</p>
<blockquote><p>Most consumers of the Israel story don’t understand how the story is manufactured. But Hamas does. Since assuming power in Gaza in 2007, the Islamic Resistance Movement has come to understand that many reporters are committed to a narrative wherein Israelis are oppressors and Palestinians passive victims with reasonable goals, and are uninterested in contradictory information. Recognizing this, certain Hamas spokesmen have taken to confiding to Western journalists, including some I know personally, that the group is in fact a secretly pragmatic outfit with bellicose rhetoric, and journalists—eager to believe the confession, and sometimes unwilling to credit locals with the smarts necessary to deceive them—have taken it as a scoop instead of as spin.</p></blockquote>
<p>We read these stories all the time. The moderate wing of Hamas, of the Taliban, of Al Qaeda and we wonder how reporters can fall for it.</p>
<p>This is how.</p>
<blockquote><p>During my time at the AP, we helped Hamas get this point across with a school of reporting that might be classified as “Surprising Signs of Moderation” (a direct precursor to the “Muslim Brotherhood Is Actually Liberal” school that enjoyed a brief vogue in Egypt). In one of my favorite stories, “More Tolerant Hamas” (December 11, 2011), reporters quoted a Hamas spokesman informing readers that the movement’s policy was that “we are not going to dictate anything to anyone,” and another Hamas leader saying the movement had “learned it needs to be more tolerant of others.” Around the same time, I was informed by the bureau’s senior editors that our Palestinian reporter in Gaza couldn’t possibly provide critical coverage of Hamas because doing so would put him in danger.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sadly the more &#8220;tolerant&#8221; Hamas apparently couldn&#8217;t protect him from Hamas.</p>
<blockquote><p>The press could be trusted to play its role in the Hamas script, instead of reporting that there was such a script. Hamas strategy did not exist, according to Hamas—or, as reporters would say, was “not the story.” There was no Hamas charter blaming Jews for centuries of perfidy, or calling for their murder; this was not the story. The rockets falling on Israeli cities were quite harmless; they were not the story either.</p></blockquote>
<p>And this is the central problem with the media. It&#8217;s not just that the media is biased against us. That&#8217;s a symptom. It&#8217;s that it&#8217;s corrupt as an institution because rather than reporting, it decides what the story is and tell it its way.</p>
<blockquote><p>When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)</p></blockquote>
<p>So much for the tolerant moderate Hamas.</p>
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		<title>Only Man Banned by the AP was an Israeli Professor Monitoring Leftist Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bureau’s explicit orders to reporters were to never quote the group or its director]]></description>
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<p>The AP will interview and quote absolutely everyone including Hamas leaders. But everyone has to draw the line somewhere. And the AP draws the line at <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/">Professor Gerald Steinberg</a> of <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/">NGO Monitor</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/5/">So reports Matti Friedman</a>, a former AP man dishing some of the dirt on how the news is made.</p>
<blockquote><p>Around this time, a Jerusalem-based group called NGO Monitor was battling the international organizations condemning Israel after the Gaza conflict, and though the group was very much a pro-Israel outfit and by no means an objective observer, it could have offered some partisan counterpoint in our articles to charges by NGOs that Israel had committed “war crimes.” But the bureau’s explicit orders to reporters were to never quote the group or its director, an American-born professor named Gerald Steinberg. In my time as an AP writer moving through the local conflict, with its myriad lunatics, bigots, and killers, the only person I ever saw subjected to an interview ban was this professor.</p></blockquote>
<p>Friedman discusses that the reason for this is the thin white line between NGOs, various non-profit groups and the media.</p>
<blockquote><p>This confusion is very much present in Israel and the Palestinian territories, where foreign activists are a notable feature of the landscape, and where international NGOs and numerous arms of the United Nations are among the most powerful players, wielding billions of dollars and employing many thousands of foreign and local employees. Their SUVs dominate sections of East Jerusalem and their expense accounts keep Ramallah afloat. They provide reporters with social circles, romantic partners, and alternative employment—a fact that is more important to reporters now than it has ever been, given the disintegration of many newspapers and the shoestring nature of their Internet successors.</p>
<p>In my time in the press corps, I learned that our relationship with these groups was not journalistic. My colleagues and I did not, that is, seek to analyze or criticize them. For many foreign journalists, these were not targets but sources and friends—fellow members, in a sense, of an informal alliance. This alliance consists of activists and international staffers from the UN and the NGOs; the Western diplomatic corps, particularly in East Jerusalem; and foreign reporters. (There is also a local component, consisting of a small number of Israeli human-rights activists who are themselves largely funded by European governments, and Palestinian staffers from the Palestinian Authority, the NGOs, and the UN.)&#8230;</p>
<p>In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s an interesting point and perspective. Friedman, who has plenty of experience on the ground, essentially argues that correspondents join an emigre community dominated by leftist NGOs who are anti-Israel. The bias is essentially baked in.</p>
<p>The international correspondent is embedded with the NGOs and one of the important points that Friedman makes is that of the &#8220;invisible camera&#8221;. The press doesn&#8217;t report on its own methods of reporting. It also doesn&#8217;t report on the NGOs who have become part of its infrastructure.</p>
<blockquote><p>Many foreign journalists have come to see themselves as part of this world of international organizations, and specifically as the media arm of this world. They have decided not just to describe and explain, which is hard enough, and important enough, but to “help.”&#8230;</p>
<p>while international organizations are among the most powerful actors in the Israel story, they are almost never reported on. Are they bloated, ineffective, or corrupt? Are they helping, or hurting? We don’t know, because these groups are to be quoted, not covered. Journalists cross from places like the BBC to organizations like Oxfam and back. The current spokesman at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, for example, is a former BBC man. A Palestinian woman who participated in protests against Israel and tweeted furiously about Israel a few years ago served at the same time as a spokesperson for a UN office, and was close friends with a few reporters I know&#8230;</p>
<p>International organizations in the Palestinian territories have largely assumed a role of advocacy on behalf of the Palestinians and against Israel, and much of the press has allowed this political role to supplant its journalistic function&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Think of the foreign correspondent as interchangeable with the activist. No wonder there was a ban on Professor Gerald Steinberg.</p>
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		<title>Even Liberals Don&#8217;t Trust ThinkProgress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberals trust The Daily Show and Al Jazeera for their news coverage.]]></description>
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<p>One of the tidbits in <a href="http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization-media-habits/">Pew&#8217;s journalism projec</a>t ranked political orientation and which media outlets they trusted. There are few surprises here.</p>
<p>Liberals trust The Daily Show and Al Jazeera for their news coverage. Conservatives trust FOX News and Breitbart. Everyone trusts the Wall Street Journal and no one trusts BuzzFeed. That last shows there&#8217;s hope for America.</p>
<p>But lefty talking point spewing factory Think Progress gets surprisingly low scores even among liberals. Not only do conservatives distrust it, but the general public and those rated mostly liberal split on it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not good news for TP.</p>
<p>The Mostly Liberal group generally has the same habits as the consistently liberal. They only split on a handful of outlets. Think Progress, Al Jazeera, the Ed Schultz Show and DailyKos.</p>
<p>What this shows is that the consistently liberal group&#8217;s media outlets are distrusted outside their own narrow echo chamber. While lefties often hurl that accusation at the right, the Pew survey shows it&#8217;s quite true of them.</p>
<p>Think Progress isn&#8217;t reaching anyone outside of a small group of lefties. Its spin would go nowhere except for the fact that major media outlets, many of them in the trusted group, write their stories based on its content. That means that people need to be reminded that when they&#8217;re watching CNN or reading the Washington Post, they&#8217;re often just reading reprocessed ThinkProgress.</p>
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		<title>Hamas Praises &#8220;Media Martyrs&#8221; who were the Sources for World Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The source from which the world's media derived all that was going on in Gaza..." ]]></description>
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<p>Finally the media <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/08/hamas-calls-media-partners-in-victory.html#.VATRJ_lr7J8">gets the recognition it deserve</a>s. (via <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/">Elder of Ziyon</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Gaza&#8217;s Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the media and journalists as &#8220;partners in the victory&#8221; against Israel.</p>
<p>During a ceremony to honor &#8220;martyrs of the media,&#8221; which was organized by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Information, Hanieyahsaid that the media &#8220;contributed to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said, &#8220;The Palestinian people has triumphed over the Israeli aggression on all levels, including militarily, politically and morally and in the media.&#8221;</p>
<p>Haniyeh said that &#8220;the men of the Palestinian media have formed the source from which the world&#8217;s media derived all that was going on in Gaza&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Haniyeh is referring to Hamas media outlets such as Al Aqsa TV, which mainstream media outlets sometimes describe as journalists, and praises them for influencing Western mainstream media.</p>
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		<title>Family of Dead Palestinians &#8220;Killed by Israel&#8221; Found to be Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's more living dead people in Gaza than on an episode of The Walking Dead.]]></description>
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<p>The media has been getting its ghoulish Gaza death toll from Hamas and its employees. And it<a href="http://honestreporting.com/entire-family-of-dead-palestinians-found-to-be-alive/"> turns out they might not be that accurate</a>. And the media is more than happy to manufacture and inflate any story that makes Israel look bad.</p>
<p>If we take a closer look at the ranks of the Gaza dead, we&#8217;ll find more living dead people than an episode of The Walking Dead.</p>
<p>First Donald Macintyre of the New Statesman claimed that ten-year-old Mohammed Badran&#8217;s &#8220;entire family had been killed when a missile destroyed their home at the Nuseirat refugee camp.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/08/donald-macintyre-independent-new.html#.U-zTd_lr7J9">Now&#8230; not so much</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Update, 12 August: Mohammed Badran’s family turned out not to have been killed in the strike on his home, as had been reported here.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s quite an update.</p>
<p>But Donald Macintyre of the New Statesman insists that Israel is still the villain, randomly killing innocent civilians for no reason.</p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, although seven of the Badrans’ nine children were also injured in the attack, including their 17-year-old daughter Eman, who is now also in Shifa with serious leg injuries, Mohammed’s parents Tagorid and Nidal Badran both survived to take care of him. That is until Nidal, 44, a policeman, was killed in another air strike, this time on the Qassam mosque in Nusseirat refugee camp, in the early hours of Saturday, 9 August, as he prepared to attend dawn prayers.</p></blockquote>
<p>What a heartwarming story of a family suffering under Zionist terror. It certainly is odd that Nidal got bombed twice. It&#8217;s almost like he was a magnet for Israeli weapons.</p>
<p>The story tells us he&#8217;s a policeman. It neglects to mention that Gaza policemen are Hamas terrorists. As Elder of Ziyon points out, it a<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/08/ap-buries-facts-under-rubble-of-mosque.html#.U-zVR_lr7J8">lso neglects to mention</a> <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/08/donald-macintyre-independent-new.html#.U-zTd_lr7J9">what was happening in that mosqu</a>e.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nidal was not at the mosque for dawn prayers. He was there at 3:30 AM meeting together with two other senior Hamas members.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s the<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/12/israeli-shelling-gaza-mosques-targets-hamas-capabilities-but-also-hurts-social/"> AP report</a> on the aftermath of that attack.</p>
<blockquote><p>Of the mosques visited by the AP, Al-Qassam stood out as the most suspicious given that three senior Hamas officials perished in the pre-dawn airstrike Saturday and judging by the heavy security presence in the aftermath of the attack. Underlining the tension, an AP reporter was briefly detained by plainclothes Hamas security men after he took down the names of two religious books recovered from the rubble.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nothing to see here.</p>
<p>The AP reporter at least took risks. Donald Macintyre of the New Statesman just spewed up Hamas propaganda like he was getting paid for it.</p>
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		<title>AP Tweets Incredibly Biased Anti-Israel Headline</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It reads like something you expect to see from Al Jazeera. ]]></description>
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<p>This is the official AP Twitter account. It&#8217;s not a parody.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>As much of world watches Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel: <a href="http://t.co/DepO2etLQS">http://t.co/DepO2etLQS</a></p>
<p>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/statuses/494059784199761920">July 29, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/29/the-ap-revises-another-tweet-this-time-about-israel/">Despite the backlas</a>h, the AP has yet to delete this. Instead it adds another Tweet with a more neutral headline.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>
Many U.S. lawmakers strongly back Israel in Gaza war (revises wording in this <a href="https://twitter.com/AP">@AP</a> tweet: <a href="http://t.co/RZs5dh0m2L">http://t.co/RZs5dh0m2L</a> ): <a href="http://t.co/OvBKx75U6Z">http://t.co/OvBKx75U6Z</a></p>
<p>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/statuses/494130393994756096">July 29, 2014</a>
</p></blockquote>
<p><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>The Tweet misrepresents the story. It inserts its own editorializing into it. And it reads like something you expect to see from Al Jazeera.</p>
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		<title>CNN Coached Audience to Applaud Hillary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?” ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cnn-doubles-down-on-hillary-propaganda-flick/">CNN tried to do a Hillary propaganda flick</a> and its going down the<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/biggest-failure-in-tv-history-refuses-to-be-shamed-into-covering-benghazi/"> newstertainment hole with its new boss</a>. So <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/06/20/cnns-town-hall-clinton-friendly/">expect lots more of this kind of thing</a>.</p>
<p>But no one actually watches CNN anymore. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/21/wapo-cnn-coached-audience-to-cheer-for-hillary-during-town-hall-event/">Hillary would have gotten more viewers i</a>f she had done a commercial for a home furniture store on a local station.</p>
<blockquote><p>Though CNN touted its Tuesday session with Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “town hall exclusive,” a great number of American towns apparently didn’t tune in. The hour-long interview, which took place in the Knight Studio of the Newseum, just managed to edge out MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” in the 5 p.m. television ratings.</p>
<p>&#8230;Tim Graham of NewsBusters opines that five of the six questions from audience members came from a liberal perspective, while four of the five “neutral” questions were “softballs.”</p>
<p>Clinton did field a question asking her to clarify her history on the gay marriage issue. And she did have to take on a question about whether President Obama had quit Iraq too early. But she also got to help herself to this one: “My question is, if you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?” That came from George Washington University business student Krisstarah Gonzalez.</p>
<p>To add “energy” to its show (attended by the Erik Wemple Blog), CNN deployed an enthusiastic stage director who coached the audience to applaud at various points throughout the broadcast — not in a partisan manner for Clinton, but for the sake of the town hall’s television optics. Approximately 15 minutes before the show, the producer ran the audience through a practice round of applause and noise-making. The results of the audience-prodding turn up in the show’s video.</p></blockquote>
<p>Amanpour, who tries to pretend to be a serious journalist, is acting like she&#8217;s hosting The View, but The View was hosted by what the media had insisted was a serious journalist.</p>
<p>Serious journalism is mostly dead, especially on cable news. CNN is being more obvious about boosting Hillary than they would have been in 2008, but that&#8217;s due to the overall degradation of standards. The idea of objectivity is mostly dead. The media is a cheering section and they&#8217;re mostly cheering for Hillary.</p>
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		<title>New York Times Claims &#8220;Moderate&#8221; Al Qaeda Disavows Boko Haram</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 15:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then the Times argues that Boko Haram is a victim of Islamophobia]]></description>
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<p>The media already works full time trying to claim that Islam has no links to terror and that every other Muslim terrorist group is really moderate.</p>
<p>The rush to relabel Muslim terrorist groups as moderates has finally reached Al Qaeda as reporters insist that Al Qaeda is disavowing Boko Haram&#8217;s kidnapping of schoolgirls&#8230; because it hasn&#8217;t issued a comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27334894">No, seriously</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>No surprises there, as this senseless kidnapping of children has been roundly condemned by almost the entire world. But how has it gone down with al-Qaeda, to which Boko Haram professes nominal allegiance?</p>
<p>More than three weeks have elapsed since news of the abduction first emerged and the reaction from al-Qaeda&#8217;s core leadership has been interesting &#8211; total silence&#8230;</p>
<p>It might sound ironic that a movement which extolled the murder of nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks of 2001 should draw the line at this latest atrocity, committed in the name of the jihadist cause.</p></blockquote>
<p>What line is Al Qaeda drawing? Does Al Qaeda have to comment every time Boko Haram does something horrible? Is a lack of comment equivalent to a condemnation?</p>
<p>The BBC, quoted above, is bad enough,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/abduction-of-girls-an-act-not-even-al-qaeda-can-condone.html?ref=world&amp;_r=0"> but the New York Times really beclowns</a> itself trying to show that Al Qaeda is critical of Boko Haram over the kidnappings.</p>
<p>Since the New York Times can&#8217;t get Al Qaeda to issue a condemnation, it instead quotes two anonymous posters on a Jihadist forum somewhere, one of whom is unhappy about the attack.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Such news is spread to taint the image of the Mujahedeen,” wrote one dubious poster on a web forum used by Islamic militants whose administrator uses a picture of Osama bin Laden.</p></blockquote>
<p>So someone, somewhere, on a forum that uses Bin Laden&#8217;s picture, one of the more popular pieces of iconography in the Muslim world, questioned the PR fallout from the attack.</p>
<p>Or was he suggesting that it was all made up? Who knows. Who cares. Certainly not the New York Times.</p>
<p>The New York Times then uses mildly critical posts on some Jihadist forum to claim that they represent the &#8220;dismay of fellow jihadists&#8221;. Somehow this already shaky claim is used to prop up the suggestion that Al Qaeda condemns Boko Haram.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The violence most of the African rebel groups practice makes Al Qaeda look like a bunch of schoolgirls,” said Bronwyn Bruton, an Africa scholar at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “And Al Qaeda at this point is a brand — and pretty much only a brand — so you have to ask yourself how they are going to deal with the people who are doing things so hideous even the leaders of Al Qaeda are unwilling to condone them.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Like what?</p>
<p>Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Taliban committed more horrifying atrocities than Boko Haram. The difference is that Boko Haram kills more people. But for sheer cruelty, the Taliban top AQIQ and Boko Haram.</p>
<blockquote><p>Boko Haram is in many ways an awkward ally for any of them. Its violence is broader and more casual than Al Qaeda or other jihadist groups. Indeed, its reputation for the mass murder of innocent civilians is strikingly inconsistent with a current push by Al Qaeda’s leaders to avoid such deaths for fear of alienating potential supporters.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is an actual paragraph in an American newspaper. Its editors live in another New York City in which Al Qaeda didn&#8217;t slam planes into the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>Then the Times moves on to arguing that Boko Haram is a victim of Islamophobia because the left loves making excuses for evil and blaming the victims for the crimes of their killers.</p>
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		<title>White House has a Media Monitor to Preemptively Kill Reporters&#8217; Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 17:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allen tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s very creepy and very Cass Sunstein, though I have no idea if he was involved. Since reporters these days articulate what&#8217;s going through their minds on Twitter, it&#8217;s time to attack them, fact check them and even maybe target them based on their social media use.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/when-the-white-house-hates-your-tweet-211857928.html">Disrupting stories before they&#8217;re even written is </a>much easier than damage control once they&#8217;re out there. It&#8217;s a bit Orwellian, but no doubt effective.</p>
<blockquote><p>For the Obama White House, tweets from reporters are a kind of early warning system. It’s up to Jessica Allen, 24, to sound the alarm.</p>
<p>Allen, whose official title is “media monitor,” tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails that land in the in-boxes of more than 80 Obama aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, press secretary Jay Carney and senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer.</p>
<p>The result? Reporters who regularly cover Obama have become familiar with seemingly out-of-the-blue emails or telephone calls from officials taking issue with their tweets — often thoughtfully and constructively, sometimes with obscenity-laced yelps of outrage&#8230;</p>
<p>While White House communications staff track her alerts closely, other officials have been known to route her messages into email folders and check them just a couple of times a day, one Obama aide said&#8230;</p>
<p>Instead, she watches the Twitter feeds of influential reporters for comments the White House might view as inaccurate, incomplete or unfair, as well as clues for what they are reporting and how it might portray the president or the administration&#8230;</p>
<p>Interestingly, the White House doesn’t often respond to reporter tweets on Twitter, preferring instead to pick up the phone or send an off-the-record email — private, one-on-one communications.</p>
<p>Democratic officials said the White House’s informal guidelines call for staffers to jump in on Twitter itself in three circumstances: 1) If a Republican official is involved in the exchange, 2) if the White House wants to amplify a point it considers beneficial and 3) if it sees a confrontation with a reporter as politically useful and wants to escalate it&#8230;</p>
<p>Allen, who generally sends her first email of the day at 7 a.m., graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in political science (international affairs). Her honors thesis was entitled “Women&#8217;s Substantive Political Representation in Uganda,” according to her LinkedIn profile.</p>
<p>As a senior, she worked as press intern for Obama’s re-election campaign, rising to the post of media monitor before going on to work for his 2013 inauguration committee and then joining the administration.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s doubtful that the timing of this story and some of Sharyl Attkisson&#8217;s recent remarks are a coincidence. Knox and Co. appear to be trying to humanize an minimize the White House&#8217;s media operation. To put a friendly and wonkish face on it. To put it into context as a mere clip service, instead of something resembling a dot com&#8217;s attempt at predicting and shaping customer behavior.</p>
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		<title>CNN Won&#8217;t Cover &#8220;Local Story&#8221; of Dem State Senator Busted by FBI for Missile Arms Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bridge being closed down in New Jersey, that's a national news story.]]></description>
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<p>A Washington Post reporter<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2013/04/a-wapo-reporter-explains-her-personal-gosnell-blackout/"> claimed that she wasn&#8217;t covering</a> the Kermit Gosnell House of Horrors trial because it was a &#8220;local story&#8221;. The Trayvon Martin fight however was a national story.</p>
<p>Now Leland Yee, a California State Senator and mayoral candidate who had repeatedly been in the national news for his crusade against violent video games and 3D printed guns, got busted by the FBI trying to negotiate an arms deal involving automatic weapons and shoulder fired missiles with an arms dealer tied to Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not just a national news story.<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/gun-control-senator-who-wanted-to-ban-assault-rifles-took-part-in-shoulder-fired-missiles-deal/"> It&#8217;s a season of 24</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Yee explained he has known the arms dealer for a number of years and has developed a close relationship with him.” The undercover agent told Yee he wanted automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles and offered to pay Yee $100,000 after the first deal.</p>
<p>“According to Senator Yee, the arms dealer is ‘low-key’ and has been trafficking weapons for quite a while,” the document says. “According to Senator Yee, the arms dealer sourced the weapons from Russia.”</p>
<p>The agent told Yee and Jackson he wanted any type of shoulder-fired weapons or missiles, the affidavit says; Yee asked whether he wanted automatic weapons, and the agent confirmed he did — about $500,000 to $2.5 million worth.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Yee case has also broken the California Senate&#8217;s Democratic supermajority which is another story of significant importance.</p>
<p>But to <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/181041-cnn-on-why-theyre-ignoring-leland-yee-story-we-dont-cover-state-senator-stuff/">CNN, it&#8217;s just a minor local news story</a>.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/TheINDYpundit">@TheINDYpundit</a> It&#8217;s in line with us covering state senators &amp; state secretary of state races just about never. You see another conspiracy?</p>
<p>— CNN.com Writers (@CNNWriters) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNWriters/statuses/449536249133821952">March 28, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Conspiracy? No conspiracy here.</p>
<p>A bridge being closed down in New Jersey, that&#8217;s a national news story. An ambitious anti-gun State Senator whose anti-gun antics CNN repeatedly reported on getting busted for massive level arms trafficking is just a local story.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a primer.</p>
<p>Pro-gun activist shoots someone. National news story.</p>
<p>Anti-gun activist shoots someone. Local story.</p>
<p>White man shoots black man. National news story.</p>
<p>Black man shoots white man. Local news story. (Unless it was in response to racism.)</p>
<p>Religious figure molests a child. National news story.</p>
<p>Teacher&#8217;s union member molests a child. Local news story. (Unless the teacher is female and can be marketed.)</p>
<p>Leland Yee announces he wants to fight violent video games and 3D printed guns. National news story.</p>
<p>Leland Yee tries to broker a shoulder fired missile deal. Local story.</p>
<p>How pathetically biased is CNN? Even MSNBC&#8217;s Rachael Maddow blog mentioned the Yee arrest. That&#8217;s right. CNN is now more unwilling to report on the arrest of a high profile Democrat than MSNBC.</p>
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		<title>Pulitzer Prize Winning NYT Reporter:  Obama &#8220;Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any journalist who exceeds those parameters “will be punished.”]]></description>
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<p>A few media types are beginning to stand up<a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2014/03/25/nyt-reporter-obama-administration-greatest-enemy-press-freedom/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social"> to the Pravdaization of the American press </a>that has really taken off under Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>Risen won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and 2006 for his reporting on national security and terrorism. He has clashed with the Obama administration over his refusal to reveal a confidential source in a matter that reached the Supreme Court in January.</p>
<p>New York Times reporter James Risen, who is fighting an order that he testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer accused of leaking information to him, opened the conference earlier by saying the Obama administration is “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation.”</p>
<p>The administration’s aggressive prosecutions have created “a de facto Official Secrets Act,” Risen said, and the media has been “too timid” in responding.</p>
<p>The administration wants to “narrow the field of national security reporting,” Risen said, to “create a path for accepted reporting.” Any journalist who exceeds those parameters, Risen said, “will be punished.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Thank goodness those horrible Bush days are over when everyone sat cringing in their homes because of the Patriot Act. Meanwhile actual abuses of power are met with applause from most of the press for the dictator of phone and pen.</p>
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		<title>Rumsfeld has Been Saying &#8220;A Trained Ape Could Do Better&#8221; Before Obama was Born</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, no racism to see here. Better luck next time.]]></description>
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<p>Lefties are jumping up and down and gibbering with rage because former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview<a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2014/03/25/rumsfeld-trained-ape-afghanistan/"> that a trained ape could have gotten a status</a> of forces agreement.</p>
<blockquote><p>GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Is there sort of a way out of this? We are having this problem now where there is going to be an election soon. I guess that’s the best option for the United States, that the United States gets someone who is friendlier?</p>
<p>RUMSFELD: He was friendly. Our relationship with Karzai and with Afghanistan was absolutely first rate in the Bush administration. It has gone downhill like a toboggan ever since the Obama administration came in. Now, take, for example, the fact that we have status of forces agreements, probably with 100, 125 countries in the world. This administration, the White House and the State Department have failed to get a status of forces agreement. A trained ape could get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gleeful shouts of &#8220;Racism&#8221; are streaming from every studio. MSNBC even interrupted weeks of non-stop coverage of Chris Christie&#8217;s bridge to report the breaking news.</p>
<p>But Rumsfeld has been saying &#8220;a trained ape could do X&#8221; since before Obama was born.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an except from Dov Zakheim&#8217;s book, &#8220;A Vulcan&#8217;s Tale.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Rumsfeld&#8217;s style also confused many senior people inside the Pentagon&#8230;. many of us were on the receiving end of comments like &#8220;a trained ape could do better than that,&#8221; and not everyone grasped that Rumsfeld was not being personal.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In Bradley Graham&#8217;s By His Own Rules, it&#8217;s clear that Rumsfeld has been saying &#8220;A Trained Ape&#8221; as far back as 1970.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The next month, in December 1970, Nixon and his aides tried to persuade Rumsfeld to take over as head of the Republican National Committee. But Rumsfeld wasn&#8217;t interested. He rejected the suggestion which he considered lacking in challenge. &#8220;A trained ape could go out there and do that, and I&#8217;ll be darned if I&#8217;m a trained ape.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In 1986,<a href="http://articles.philly.com/1986-04-30/news/26079297_1_rumsfeld-office-of-economic-opportunity-republican-presidential-nomination"> Rumsfeld said of the budget deficit</a>, &#8216;The fact that domestic spending is the real culprit, he says, should be obvious to &#8220;a trained ape.&#8221;</p>
<p>I<a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3847">n 2001, at a Business Week interview</a>, Rumsfeld said, &#8220;And it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out if you don&#8217;t get a return on your investment you&#8217;re not going to want to be investing in it. A trained ape can figure that out. An untrained ape can figure it out.&#8221;</p>
<p>When it came to Iraq&#8217;s WMD,s the left gleefully quoted Rumsfeld saying, &#8220;We all know that they have those weapons. A trained ape knows that.&#8221;</p>
<p>More recently, he said, &#8220;Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.&#8221;</p>
<p>I could go on and document every instance, but suffice it to say that Rumsfeld has been saying, &#8220;Trained Ape&#8221; before Obama was born.</p>
<p>Sorry, no racism to see here. Better luck next time.</p>
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		<title>CBS Reporter Investigating Fast and Furious and Benghazi Resigns Over Liberal Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bulk of Attkisson’s work focused on the failures of the Obama administration]]></description>
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<p>It was bound to happen. Sharyl Attkisson had become frustrated trying to report on an administration that the CBS brass insisted on covering for. Her computer was hacked and there was apparently m<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/star-cbs-reporter-resigns-says-she-had-grown-frustrated-with-networks-liberal-bias/">uch more also going on behind the scenes</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Attkisson won five Emmy awards at CBS.</p>
<p>Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had grown frustrated with what she saw as the network’s liberal bias, an outsized influence by the network’s corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt like her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on air.</p>
<p>At the same time, Attkisson’s own reporting on the Obama administration, which some staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. She is currently at work on a book — tentatively titled “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington” — which addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the Obama administration…</p>
<p>Attkisson had become a polarizing figure at the network, sources there said. While some championed her relentless dedication to investigations — ranging from defective Firestone tires to the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal — others saw evidence of a political agenda, particularly against President Barack Obama. (The bulk of Attkisson’s work since 2009 has focused on the failures or perceived failures of the Obama administration, including its failed green-energy investments and the attack in Benghazi, though she has reported on several Republican failures as well.)</p>
<p>Others have suggested that CBS News itself was politically biased: “It’s no secret that Sharyl has been unhappy about CBS’s lack of interest in investigative reporting, especially when it comes to stories about the Obama administration,” a source close to Attkisson said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that Attkisson was reporting on scandals involving the actual administration in power was itself seen as bias.</p>
<p>That tells you all you need to know about how broken journalism is.</p>
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		<title>Network News Covers Up Party Affiliation of Convicted Dem Criminal Nagin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nagin is a big believer that climate change is real and our only way out is to stimulate our economy]]></description>
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<p>Just <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2014/02/12/networks-wont-call-convicted-mayor-ray-nagin-democrat">another committed and convicted Democrat </a>whose incompetence was used to smear a Republican president. And unlike Bush, Nagin actually didn&#8217;t care about the people in New Orleans.</p>
<blockquote><p>None of the network evening newscasts identified ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as a Democrat when reporting on his conviction of 20 counts of corruption on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The ABC World News called him &#8220;the face and voice of a city in ruins&#8221; post-Katrina, and joined CBS in simply labeling him the &#8220;former mayor&#8221; of New Orleans without the Democratic label. As NewsBusters reported last year, all the same evening newscasts dropped the Democratic label at Nagin&#8217;s indictment.</p>
<p>And back in January, NBC showed a complete double standard by ignoring Nagin&#8217;s Democratic affiliation while reporting a GOP congressman&#8217;s resignation amidst scandal. The January 27 NBC Nightly News made sure to label Trey Radel a Republican as he resigned from Congress after pleading guilty to cocaine possession, but simply called Nagin &#8220;mayor of the city during Katrina.&#8221;</p>
<p>The networks joined the USA Today on Wednesday in omitting the party affiliation; last week, the New York Times ran an entire article on Nagin&#8217;s trial without mentioning Nagin&#8217;s party.</p></blockquote>
<p>But somehow if Nagin had been found Not Guilty, he would be a Democrat again. Nagin had been attacking President Bush for not doing enough for New Orleans, while <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/ex-new-orleans-mayor-nagin-indicted-for-katrina-fraud/">Nagin was stealing during and after the disaster</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The federal indictment accuses Nagin of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman who secured millions of dollars in city contract work after the 2005 hurricane.</p>
<p>The indictment also accuses Nagin of getting free private jet and limousine services to New York from an unidentified businessman.</p>
<p>Flying to Jamaica 82 days after the storm on the dime of a city contractor who is now in jail while people were still trying to get back in their homes, while cops were still finding bodies in cars and attics – the second term was a complete abdication of his duty and a squandering of an opportunity for him to lead. And frankly it probably postponed this city’s recovery for three or four years.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But Nagin did commit to Green Energy and knew what<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-global-warming-god-strikes-again/"> really caused Katrina. Iraq</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ray Nagin is a big believer that climate change is real and our only way out is to stimulate our economy by developing and mass marketing green energy alternatives. He is a user at his home, office and drives hybrid cars. During his time as Mayor of New Orleans he pushed innovative green initiatives that included two of the largest LEED certified affordable housing communities in the country. The city also has fleets of biofuel buses and vehicles.</p>
<p>After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin said that the storm was divine punishment for “being in Iraq under false pretenses.”</p>
<p>“This city will be a majority-African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be,” Nagin promised.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Finally Ezra Klein Will Harness the Internet To Do &#8220;News&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that news is still all about "newness"?]]></description>
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<p>Did you know that news is still all about &#8220;newness&#8221;? That&#8217;s right. Also butter has too much butter in it. But Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and random people who missed out on a gig at Think Progress will now redefine the news.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/26/5348212/ezra-klein-vox-is-our-next">No, really</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn&#8217;t the Internet made the news better at delivering crucial context alongside new information?</p></blockquote>
<p>It hasn&#8217;t? Is Ezra Klein aware of the hyperlink?</p>
<blockquote><p>New information is not always — and perhaps not even usually — the most important information for understanding a topic.</p></blockquote>
<p>Amazing. So just randomly adding new information doesn&#8217;t explain a topic? Please tell me more. It&#8217;s like a strawman come to life.</p>
<blockquote><p>The overriding focus on the new made sense when the dominant technology was newsprint: limited space forces hard choices. You can&#8217;t print a newspaper telling readers everything they need to know about the world, day after day. But you can print a newspaper telling them what they need to know about what happened on Monday. The constraint of newness was crucial.</p></blockquote>
<p>Next on TED talks, how will the internet transform news with its unlimited space? Oddly enough, newsprint was better at providing information than modern new media which has to do longreads to imitate the form.</p>
<blockquote><p>The web has no such limits. There&#8217;s space to tell people both what happened today and what happened that led to today.</p></blockquote>
<p>No there isn&#8217;t. Space in both newsprint and online is subject to cost and the limits of attention span. Attention span has hard limits. For example, I just skimmed through Ezra Klein&#8217;s big news announcement and didn&#8217;t bother clicking on any of the contextual links.</p>
<blockquote><p>But the software newsrooms have adopted in the digital age has too often reinforced a workflow built around the old medium.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because people are interested in breaking news. Also Google Search has adopted social media&#8217;s trending topics over deep search.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, we are better than ever at telling people what&#8217;s happening, but not nearly good enough at giving them the crucial contextual information necessary to understand what&#8217;s happened.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually it&#8217;s just the opposite. Liberal media bias has become so overt that context has drowned out actual information. People are told what to think about something before they are told what it is.</p>
<p>More liberals know that Benghazi is some silly right-wing nonsense than know what happened there. And that&#8217;s how the Jornolist gang likes it.</p>
<p>But Ezra Klein and the rest of the gang are going to fight this whole newness business by creating a&#8230;. blog. That ought to do it.</p>
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		<title>News Networks Covered Michelle&#8217;s Birthday 2X as Benghazi Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 minutes on Michelle’s birthday vs. just 2 minutes on Benghazi]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/network-news-spent-twice-as-much-time-on-moochs-birthday-bash-than-senate-benghazi-report/">We all have our priorities</a>. Discussions about Michelle Obama&#8217;s dress matter more than a report disproving the lies the media tried to sell about the murder of four Americans.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Wednesday the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a devastating report that blamed the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.</p>
<p>While the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) networks covered the report for a day, they found another event far more compelling — The First Lady’s 50th birthday bash, spending twice as much time on the White House party than Benghazi.</p>
<p>Starting Wednesday, January 15 through this morning (January 20), the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows collectively spent just under 15 minutes on the Benghazi report (14 minutes, 49 seconds), vs. nearly a half-hour on Michelle’s birthday (28 minutes, 4 seconds). There were 20 stories/segments on the First Lady&#8217;s birthday vs. 10 on the Benghazi report.</p>
<p>ABC was the most wildly out of line &#8212; 10 minutes on Michelle’s birthday vs. just 2 minutes on Benghazi. NBC spent twice as much time on the birthday (12 ½ minutes) as Benghazi (6 ½ minutes), while CBS actually gave slightly more time to Benghazi (6 minutes) vs. Michelle (5 ½ minutes).</p></blockquote>
<p>I just hope the next time, Americans are murdered in an Islamic terrorist attack doesn&#8217;t overlap with another Michelle Obama birthday or we won&#8217;t even find out about it. If Michelle Obama had been born on September 11, Benghazi would never have been in the news at all.</p>
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		<title>Why FOX News Succeeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOX News is ahead because it's the only alternative]]></description>
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<p>The Michael Wolff USA Today piece on FOX News, like so many other articles on the conservative news network, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/wolff/2014/01/05/the-unbeatable-roger-ailes/4303281/">goes right past the obvious</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The 2013 numbers are out, and once more, for 12 years running, Ailes&#8217; Fox News trashes everybody else in the cable news space, with an audience larger than CNN&#8217;s and MSNBC&#8217;s combined.</p>
<p>In 2013, MSNBC, aping Fox&#8217;s political spin but on the left-wing side, sunk to third place in total viewership. CNN&#8217;s prime time audience has fallen back to where it was in 1993.</p>
<p>Fox, on the other hand, had the top 14 shows, and the top nine in the choicest demographic, 25- to 54-year-olds.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay, but why is that?</p>
<blockquote><p>Ailes is not only a programmer but a media marketer. His was an astute analysis of the largest and most stable part of the cable news audience, a kind of passionate couch potato (network news still commands that larger audience of catatonic couch potatoes). This was an older and less urban audience, which left its competitors to fight over a younger and more fickle audience. The loss of audience share to other news and entertainment options (from Jon Stewart to digital news) has been much more severe for CNN and MSNBC.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is as close as Wolff comes to the real point in his depoliticized analysis.</p>
<p>Suppose that there were only one liberal cable news network and that no network news programs existed. Assume also that the internet didn&#8217;t exist. The odds are good that this hypothetical liberal network, assuming it was more like CNN and less like MSNBC&#8217;s clown show, would likely be neck and neck with FOX News.</p>
<p>The dirty little secret here is that FOX News is ahead because it&#8217;s the only alternative there is to a liberal television news monopoly. And once we start talking about that, we also have to talk about the dominant political culture of news.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that hard to draw a competitive audience if your competition is splintered among multiple outlets that offer the same basic worldview.</p>
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		<title>Did the New York Times Overreach with its Benghazi Whitewash?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The New York Times&#8217; obvious motivation is to protect its presidential candidate in 2016, but<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/new-york-times-tries-to-revive-the-benghazi-youtube-anger-hoax/"> its multi-part article was largely off </a>target in that regard because it failed to address the security issues that are the heart of the critique of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s actions and area of responsibility.</p>
<p>Instead it focused on two elements of revisionism. It attempted to revive and defend the ridiculous claim that a YouTube video had caused a series of timed attacks against American diplomatic facilities across the region in a matter of days.</p>
<p>Despite its introductory claim that the Benghazi attack “was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam”, the article never provides supporting evidence for this. All it does is cite the claim that some attackers were angry about the video. The attackers were no doubt angry about any number of things. That does not establishment that the attack was planned and implemented as a result of the video.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s obvious why the New York Times would want to revive the YouTube hoax after Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Obama committed to that lie.</p>
<p>But the second revisionist element where the New York Times truly overreaches is its claim that the attack did not involve Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not particularly clear why the New York Times felt the need to whitewash this part of the story. Yes, Obama Inc. lied about it for a while, but in the long run it&#8217;s not nearly as damaging as the fact that they attempted to blame a video or that they failed to provide proper security.</p>
<p>The shifting allegiances, overt and covert, make it impossible to establish that Al Qaeda was not involved in the attack. And the New York Times pursued its claim with a narrow focus on the perpetrators&#8230; whose own guilt it can&#8217;t really establish.</p>
<p>It has been widely reported, including by the New York Times, that the attackers included those with Al Qaeda ties. The New York Times, despite claims otherwise, does not disprove this with fact. It just resorts to making open statements.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/29/yes-there-is-evidence-linking-al-qaeda-to-benghazi.html">is where things become silly</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The Times also drew a distinction between the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Sharia and the Dernaa branch of the group that was led by a former Guantanamo detainee Sufian Ben Qhumu. Others however see Ansar al-Sharia’s activities in Libya more coordinated with al-Qaeda’s regional affiliates.</p>
<p>In October, Tunisia’s Prime Minister told Reuters that “there is a relation between leaders of Ansar al-Sharia, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Sharia in Libya.” The Times also states, “the Republican arguments appear to conflate purely local extremist organizations like Ansar al-Shariah with al Qaeda’s international terrorist network.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Most Al Qaeda affiliates are local, but they also have global links. When dealing with Caliphate groups who don&#8217;t recognize states or borders, the distinctions between local, regional and global turn fuzzy. Many Al Qaeda affiliates pretend to be unconnected. Syria&#8217;s Al-Nusra Front, a group everyone now knows is the Syrian Al Qaeda, pretended that it was purely local for the longest time.</p>
<p>The New York Times&#8217; Al Qaeda whitewash depends on contending that one Ansar al-Sharia has nothing to do another Ansar al-Sharia.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s obvious that all this material takes place in a gray area and the New York Times&#8217; claim that it disproved Al Qaeda involvement is unsupportable.</p>
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		<title>CNN: Media Overreacted to Boston Marathon Bombing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first wave arrived with similar injuries: severed limbs...]]></description>
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<p>Apparently two bombs by two Muslim terrorists who remained at large and continued their killing spree afterward, at a national event that killed several people, including an 8-year-old boy, and wounded 264 people, leading to 16 amputations, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/?p=165793">led to a media &#8220;overreaction</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>But when a Democratic Congresswoman was wounded by a lunatic who was caught at the scene, there was no overreaction.</p>
<blockquote><p>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: You know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I wonder if the press overall in retrospect overreacted to the attacks in Boston. It was a very scary week. I was scared along with the rest of the country.</p>
<p>In retrospect I wonder if there was an overreaction in the press because considering the relatively low — low number of deaths and injuries. Now whether it was taken out of proportion, given all the other violence we see all the time. Because the word “terrorism” was applied, I think there may have been an overreaction for that reason.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stelter, another of CNN&#8217;s repulsive cretins, neglects to mention that the relatively low rate of deaths was <a href="http://www.wjtv.com/story/22008610/triage">due to on-the-scene</a> medical heroism and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323809304578432524026018716">rapid hospital preparedness</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The first wave arrived with similar injuries: severed limbs, open fractures and puncture wounds from shrapnel. We worked to control patients&#8217; bleeding, to &#8220;reduce,&#8221; or set, their badly broken bones in an effort to save their limbs, and to administer medication to help their pain and prevent infection.</p></blockquote>
<p>No doubt Brian Stelter and CNN think the hospitals also overreacted.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Then the second explosion happened, and the screaming and chaos began,&#8221; Beattie says. &#8220;I grabbed my cell phone and I texted my wife: &#8216;Bombs at marathon. I&#8217;m okay.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Beattie then sped across the tent to ask where he was most needed — in the medical facility or at the scene. Once he received instructions and quickly donned a pair of latex gloves, Beattie ran toward the area where the first bomb exploded on Boylston Street.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was running through a cloud of smoke,&#8221; Beattie says. &#8220;When the smoke cleared, there was a pile of bodies. The first victim I saw was a traumatic amputee. I took my belt off and made a tourniquet.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the doctor didn&#8217;t learn the fate of the first victim he encountered, the memory of the woman&#8217;s deep blue eyes is etched upon his memory. After hearing news reports, Beattie now believes the victim was Krystle Campbell, who grew up in Medford.</p>
<p>&#8220;It affected me a lot,&#8221; he says. Certain moments are vivid, indelible others feel like a surreal blur. &#8220;It still haunts me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Understandably, Beattie has had trouble sleeping and was &#8220;constantly reliving the scene,&#8221; thinking how he &#8220;could have done things differently or done more&#8221; to assist the victims.</p></blockquote>
<p>But suppose a white supremacist group had set off a bomb in a mosque with the same number of casualties, would there be any CNN correspondent who would get up on his hind legs in front of a camera and suggest that media coverage was an overreaction?</p>
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