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Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake
Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009
The Big Bailout...Ha!
There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Re: Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
Media bias is a perceived notion that certain press has and is pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news or airing programs in an objective way. That is the way I see it. Such bias often refers to media as a whole, such as a newspaper chain, or a given television or radio network, instead of individual reporters or writers of television ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
Liberal Media Lies
Political logic augurs a Democratic triumph in looming US elections but Barack Obama’s White House duel with John McCain is still a statistical tie, prompting some to wonder why he is yet to break away. Political logic augurs a democratic triumph? Augur: To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. What signs or omens are they looking ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 12, 2008
NPC & Larry Sinclair
Re: ''merely providing a forum for Sinclair is unlikely to get them in trouble.'' But that doesn't mean that they made the correct, ethical choice. The NY Times, WaPo, and all major newspapers routinely reject ads that they feel would discredit their news organization. NPC have a choice, they are not mere captives of anyone who knocks ...
Posted to Trailhead by Madame Defarge on June 19, 2008
Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep
Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008
Pay Day Loan Mis-information
For those of you who value your freedom to make your own decisions in regard to your finances, and how you pay your bills, please read my Blog, ''Pay day loan mis-information''. There are people, including reputable news writers, who do not fully understand pay day loans, who are spreading mis-information.Lawmakers, and politicians, are buying ...
Posted to Politics by bruceberquist on March 30, 2008
Write on!
You're absolutely right, and so are most of the people who have commented. Plagiarism is a scourge on journalism, just as it is on academics. I've been a journalist pretty much my whole life, and now I'm a blogger; it is a violation of ethics to engage in it. But we live in an age where ethical codes are determined by who is winning the latest ...
Posted to Press Box by NatetheGrate on March 13, 2008
RE: Universal Health Care
A disturbing, well documented article that uses well founded research to illustrate how journalists with political agenda's manipulate facts to make frame their argument in an un-professional attempt to influence American's future political to be in line with their ownpersonal political biases. Whether this approach to journalism is written to ...
Posted to Chatterbox by FallingStarNightSky23 on September 30, 2007