Jan 19, 2009 – My new blogmasters at Pajamas Media somehow conned me into drunkblogging President-elect Obama’s inauguration tomorrow. … I’ll be on around 11AM or so Pacific, with Scott “Scrappleface” Ott.…

Jan 19, 2009 – And its top writers appear regularly on liberal talk shows on MSNBC, with which it has a news partnership. … I think it depends on the week and the issue. . . . I’m not ideologically driven by any means.” … Meacham himself wrote a post-election cover piece on why America is still a center-right nation.…

Jan 19, 2009 – Jennifer Rubin on Tim Geithner’s tax troubles: Geithner and the Obama team are betting that the mere invocation of the word “mistake … When a candidate hasn’t been tested by the media during the campaign, the best he or his people are going to have to offer is Nixon … The media have failed us on this one, and unless something changes, then Team Obama (or, rather, all of America) will pay the price…

Jan 19, 2009 – China, unfortunately, is in the sixth year of a crackdown, sponsored by Hu Jintao, on everybody, from newspaper editors to the writers … on religious practices. … The central government has allowed citizens to comment on proposed rules and legislation and to sue officials in court in severely…

Jan 18, 2009 – The more he willingly takes on the Lincolnesque or Caesarian mantle, the more the media worries that we have put too many expectations … on Obama. … Tack to the center on the hunch that the media was anti-Bush rather than anti-his positions per se.…

Jan 18, 2009 – On sacrifice days, within him raged a fire. … They establish military quarters in family homes, where children can be counted on to be present. … But apparently, it is a war crime that the media dare not say its name.…

Jan 18, 2009 – If you click on an ad here at Pajamas Media (which you really should — why not do it right now? … Your simple little click not only gives you access to information on the many fine products and services advertised here on Pajamas … Media, it also helps facilitate egregious political corruption.…

Jan 17, 2009 – If you missed this week’s edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, tune in here. … Plus: * Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. … Kaplan of the Atlantic magazine on Iran’s sphere of influence in the Middle East. * James Pethokoukis of US News & World Report on…

Jan 17, 2009 – Tune in each Saturday to Sirus XM’s POTUS channel (#110 on Sirius, #130 on XM) at 7:00 AM eastern, 1:00 PM eastern and 7:00 PM eastern … Plus: Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. … Old media throws a hissyfit; Joe The Plumber responds. (Video here.) James Lileks on incoming President Obama’s inauguration day.…

Jan 17, 2009 – attend or to assist in other ways e.g. write articles, take videos and photos, publicize it via the internet and in all your local media … Reminder for conference call today (Saturday), Jan 17th at 9 PM EST on Obama Parade Rally on Islamic Terrorism. … Media Coverage and informing media about our event and journalists confirmed 5) Dry run of the plan starting Jan 19th night. 6) Video…

Jan 17, 2009 – One of my young colleagues who teaches media studies in a London-based university was taken aback during a seminar discussion when … In the media and popular culture it is often portrayed as an intensely racist and barbaric society. … discovered that a group of trade unionists demanded the “boycott of all Jewish shops in central Rome linked to the Israelite community” on…

Jan 17, 2009 – There are longstanding complaints about mainstream media bias in its reporting on Israel and websites such as honestreporting.com and … Given the similarities, one would expect to get an equal level of media coverage on the two conflicts. … And so a pogrom of media reporting begins.…

Jan 16, 2009 – Media Bistro’s “AgencySpy” blog explains “why it’s vitally important to watch what you say on Twitter”: A representative from Ketchum … Related: Via Melissa Clouthier, helpful new media definitions–like, um “Twitter!”–are defined definitively, here.…

Jan 16, 2009 – His grand old approach to competition allowed his opponents to exploit him ruthlessly and dispatch him quickly on election night. … Senator McCain, always keen to impress a mainstream media that once pretended to admire him, readily played their game. … In the vernacular of political correctness, this means: “My hands are on the table and I am assuming the position.”…

Jan 15, 2009 – Update: More from Allahpundit, who unearths a remarkably prescient quote from 2005: “Too often, we wear liberalism on our sleeve … Post’s Sunday “Book World” section charged in a contribution to a daily internal critique of the newspaper quoted by Howard Kurtz on … The one benefit of the media wearing their hearts on their sleeves for Obama is that readers now know where their journalists stand…

Jan 15, 2009 – The first letter, which accused only Israel of various crimes and failures, was published in The Lancet on January 12, 2009. … It cites the medical student Letter as an article by physicians in The Lancet and repeats their statistics which focus on the number … More important: Will the world media note that Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, is now Hamas HQ?…

Jan 15, 2009 – important;” /br / br /It’s sort of like peer pressure on steroids. … And perhaps chief among the lies they’ve sold us is the lie that they’ve won, that the media are theirs for good and all, and that … And only if we in the media surrender first.…

Jan 15, 2009 – On the other hand, the number of readers really hasn’t changed.  … Advertising-paid television is on the same track. I don’t have any use for broadcast TV any longer, I depend on cable.  … Newspapers, printed in bulk on cheap pulp paper, distributed to the front door every day or in the mail once a week, are dead media…

Jan 15, 2009 – This is a regime that used chemical warfare … not just on the 15,000 killed and maimed at Halabja but on scores of other villages all … It rests largely on the viability of the democracy, which in turn relies on President-elect Obama’s actions to come. … However, Obama’s own legacy will also be contingent on success an Iraq.…

Jan 14, 2009 – The mere existence of this headline–“CBS says ratings success proves network TV viable“–is proof that the clock is ticking on the … Of course, the viable lifespan of the original big three is likely to exceed a far older component of the legacy media.…

Jan 14, 2009 – According to the Wall Street Journal article “Shovel-Ready on Campus” (December 17, 2008), presidents of 36 state government universities … Soon, if not already, state governors and city mayors will descend on Washington seeking bailouts. … What kind of assumptions do politicians and news media make about the intelligence of Americans to expect us to buy the idea that our…

Jan 14, 2009 – Bill Whittle writes: [Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber] stated that he did not think reporters should be allowed on … Meanwhile, Camille Paglia unloads on an infinitely bigger media figure. Update: Related thoughts from Outside The Wire’s J.D.…

Jan 14, 2009 – Those without can look back on a few months or years with a few hundred hits from friends and relatives. … Joe stated that he did not think reporters should be allowed on the front lines to cover conflicts. … them if necessary) while remaining utterly mute and invisible while rockets rain down on Israeli families.…

Jan 14, 2009 – Here’s a little perspective on the media-hyped Mexico-is-about-to-collapse thing.…

Jan 14, 2009 – By making such deception fashionable, European media are inciting anti-Semitism. … The video shows dead bodies of babies being laid out on white sheets. … This has contributed to a dumbing-down of media coverage on the Middle East that reinforces negative perceptions of Israel.…