What Liberal Media, Cont...

Jan 28th, 2012
by F. Grey Parker

There is a liberal media. No, really. There is. It's composed of... well... guys like me.

As for the vast conspiracy of liberal conformity for which the large and commercially backed outlets are accused?

Bullshit. 

Straight up bullshit. Here is, yet again, more proof.

NEWSFLASH! -- American Media IS Bullshit

Dec 13th, 2011

Yup. It is. That's our argument and we stand behind it. We have two exemplars we hope will help illustrate this; the first is a clear indicator that, after years of "speech" and "broadcasting" programs pumping out square-jaws and dumb-blondes who couldn't pass a gym class without cheating, the art of independent copywriting is dead:


The second and far more frightening proof can be seen in the chart below.

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Sleep tight.

Fair And Balanced My Ass, cont...

Nov 16th, 2011

Note the chyron from Fox News' "straight coverage" of the clearing of Liberty Square via Media Matters

The Wonders Of Editorial Headline Writing

Oct 14th, 2011

There are dozens of ways news outlets could have framed the victory of the Occupy Wall Street protesters this morning. Headline writing is, after all, really an art form. The power of a brief phrase in bold type to color a reader's perceptions is not to be underestimated. Were it up to me, I would have gone with something like "Bloomberg Blinks" or "Confrontation Averted in New York." Those are just for starters. However, more than one major outlet opted for variations of "Clean Up Cancelled." The thing is, they mostly paired these headlines with images of the park being cleaned up. Just an observation.

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The So-Called Liberal Media

Dec 29th, 2010

Here is a tale of two videos. Well, one video really. It is shown in two different ways and to very, very different ends. It is but a single example of our major news organization's complicity in keeping the public uniformed. It is also typical. The first media embed is from CBS News coverage of a few seconds from the helicopter gunship recording that put Wikileaks on the map. Watch please...



Did you see the obvious war crime caught on tape? Neither did most people who watched good old "liberal" CBS for information on the release of the video.

Now, please watch the second video...



The CBS coverage is questionable in the extreme. The highly respected Namir Noor Eldeen is not mentioned by name. There is no mention that the American soldiers mis-identified a 10" camera lens as an RPG-7, an item roughly 3 feet longer when unloaded. There is no mention that the soldiers involved lied and stipulated that it was a "battle" with insurgents. There is no mention that there were children on the scene when the helicopter gunships engaged a second time in an attempt to kill the wounded (a war crime under Common Article 3 of The Geneva Conventions) and those who attempted to provide them assistance (a war crime under Common Articles 9, 12 and 15 of The Geneva Conventions).

The money quote from the network's 90 second story:
"Now it appears from the tape that at least some of those hit on the ground were unarmed, but a journalist who was in the general area that same days says it is important for all of us to remember it was a hectic, violent and uneasy day."

Excuse me? The second wave of unprovoked fire wounded rescuers and two children almost killing them. It is as clear a record of a war crime that we have seen here at home from our Iraq misadventure. Yet, CBS chose to carry the water for our military in it's attempts to cover up the incident and diminish public anger.

The network should be ashamed. To be fair, guys like Murrow and Cronkite wouldn't be caught dead working for them now. And that's the way it is.

The Conservative Commentariat Stokes The Hate, part 342... or is it 343?

Dec 22nd, 2010

By F. Grey Parker

Three days ago, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hosted a dialogue in New York City for 60 prominent Israeli politicians, activists and social leaders. The event was Abbas' idea, starting with an invitation from him, and the group was notably not limited to the more liberal players or the usual peace proponents. Discussions ran the range from territorial boundary disagreements to the potential details of a two-state solution in the world's most consistently troubling conflict outside of the Koreas. It was, in my view, a tremendous example of the progress we have made. A little less than a quarter century ago, when the Intifada was fully raging, it could not have been predicted that something of this kind might ever be possible.

But, stunningly, it didn't rate much as news. Aside from The NY Times, it counts as arguably the weeks most underreported story so far.

Exclusion from coverage is not enough for some conservative outlets. Nope. Simply not reporting a positive action on the part of the Palestinian leadership doesn't suffice for our media's Neo-Cons. My case in point is Tucker Carlson's rag, The Daily Caller, which devoted not so much as a paragraph to the gathering or it's potential. Not one line. What The Caller did make time for, however, was a piece this morning reminding us that Jerusalem's Grand Mufti from 1921 to 1948 and infamous anti-Semite, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a real great friend to Adolph Hitler. 

It is more important, apparently, for Mr. Carlson to "report" to his readers about Palestinians who were complicit in the Holocaust 70 years ago than to report on those who are struggling for peace today.

Shame on you, Tucker. Shame on you.