Roman Polanski: Rapist

Let’s see:
Geimer later agreed to a second session, which took place on March 10, 1977 at the home of actor Jack Nicholson in the Mulholland area of Los Angeles. “We did photos with me drinking champagne,” Geimer says. “Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I [...]

Conservative reporting

These couple of things by Joe the Plumber are funny:
I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting. You know, war is hell. And if you’re gonna sit there and say, “Well look at this atrocity,” well you don’t know the whole story behind it half the time, so I think the media [...]

Paper Proves Story

This is very interesting. The Boston Globe has a story about the cutbacks in newsrooms and the effect it has on newspapers:
Stories are shorter overall, the study found, and staff coverage tends to focus on local and community news.
“America’s newspapers are narrowing their reach and their ambitions and becoming niche reads,” the study said.
The story [...]

Is My Family Dead?

Via Majikthise, this person must be either crazy or without scruple or both:

Reporters Without Borders is astounded and angry to discover that a journalist’s claim that 11 of his close relatives were murdered last weekend is false. Amman-based Iraqi journalist Dia al-Kawwaz had claimed on 26 November that 11 members of his immediate family were [...]

CNN Manipulates Again

Hmm, it seems CNN doesn’t only manipulate the quotes of Democrats:
Quizzed by CNN about whether he has ever used steroids, pro wrestler John Cena quickly responded, “Absolutely not!” — then offered nearly three minutes of follow up. But when CNN made its edit to their special, “Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling,” Cena’s response was replaced [...]

CNN Manipulates Quote

Wow, this is pretty blatant. CNN cut of Pelosi’s quote
“I know that Congress has low approval ratings. I don’t approve of Congress because we haven’t done anything to end, we haven’t been effective in ending the war in Iraq.”
to:
“I know that Congress has low approval ratings. I don’t approve of Congress because we haven’t done [...]

Waxman Investigates

The Washington Post has an article about Rep Waxman:
For months, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee, has been threatening, subpoenaing and just plain badgering Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to come before his panel to answer questions about the run-up to the Iraq war, corruption and State Department contracting.
Today, Rice will [...]

Media Consolidation

A few years ago Michael Powell tried to loosen the regulations for media ownership. He had the votes necessary in the FCC, but the vast majority of the 3 million public comments (by far the most comments for the FCC) were against it and an Appeals Court ruled against the plan.
Now the new head of [...]