Jan 30, 2009 – On January 27, Bloomberg news carried a story that, in a rational world, would have been plastered over the front pages of our major … onset of the credit crisis,” the story tells us, “the $1.69 trillion commercial paper market may be the first to cut its reliance on … Why is it not being ballyhooed about the media? My guess: because self-indulgent wallowing in hysterical gloom is more fun.…

Jan 30, 2009 – Which is why it’s beyond outrageous that AGW believers are publicly attacking thoughtful skeptics — not on the facts, but on their … Pop media hype. AGW is heavily promoted through the popular media. … In real science the burden of proof is always on the proposer, never on the skeptics. 3.…

Jan 30, 2009 – Second, the investment-related Bush tax cuts on capital gains and dividends, along with across-the-board cuts in marginal rates, finally … A Google News archive search on “income inequality” (entered in quotes) returned 9,940 results for the date range of January 1, 2000 … I can’t help but conclude that “income inequality,” like previous attempts to roll out the homeless, is a convenient media club that…

Jan 29, 2009 – . … Separately, Hamas is believed to have stopped Palestinians reaching an Israeli field hospital on Israel’s side of the border at … President Obama’s envoy to the Middle East emphasized the need for the ceasefire to continue in order to get the peace negotiations back on … Mugabe became prime minister and was toasted by the international community and media as a new sort of African leader.…

Jan 29, 2009 – Dawson played the “media card” — claiming the issue was an artificial concoction of the mainstream media. … And, the day that school opened, we were on CBS news with the buses turned upside down, and one of them lit on fire. … and media skills.…

Jan 29, 2009 – And the media won’t ever let him forget it. … But even when a query hits home she fails to pounce on a penetrating follow-up. … Bush on the campaign trail, isn’t out to crucify Haggard.…

Jan 29, 2009 – of real plum stories in the intersection of political reporting and technology in the last week: first, the Washington Post story on … the White House (“Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages“), then closely following, rather more technical stories on … Many people don’t realize that the way web search engines are built is based on programs that visit potentially every webpage on the…

Jan 29, 2009 – whole new media thing. … And, of course, my Pajamas Media partner in crime, Charlie Martin. … If you’re reading Pajamas Media, then you’re pretty up-to-speed already on this new media business.…

Jan 28, 2009 – Most Pajamas Media visitors have their own complete list and all of us can rewrite history. … What’s more, our country’s dependence on imported oil was putting our own security at risk. … The result was 56 mpg in their city cycle and 75 mpg on the highway after a full charge.…

Jan 28, 2009 – hellacious process of publishing a book must surely be irritated to learn that (a) Obama had been sought out by a literary agent on … Bush inspired on the left. … When Obama is featured 14 times on the cover of Time in a single year, when Chris Matthews of NBC News experiences a “thrill up my…

Jan 28, 2009 – Is it likely that ASAI will follow through on their legal threats? Not really. … Inflammatory remarks on blogs — scary! Another example of the sloppy reporting is the sourcing. … Understand that this is not Ohio State University working on defense contracts we’re talking about.…

Jan 28, 2009 – So would you be challenging him on that? Or is the fact that he did it under the rubric of legality, does that make it OK? … If we sat on a stage with Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, John McCain, John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, me and whoever else you want to put … He was the secretary of state. … Yeah, he was the secretary of state overseeing an illegal, immoral, genocidal attack on civilians.…

Jan 27, 2009 – President Barack Obama is being praised for choosing an Arabic TV network for his first formal television interview on the Dubai-based … and on. … There is a danger here that Obama’s hope and change on the Middle East will start to resemble his hope and change on new governance…

Jan 27, 2009 – A few google searches yielded no mainstream criticism of Miss Behar’s panegyric to the president (not even on the right-maybe that’ … what’s happening in the world go outside of the U.S. media because it’s owned by four corporations one of them is this one. … And you know what, go outside of the country to find out what’s going on in our country because it’s frightening.…

Jan 27, 2009 – After spending the Bush years as a voice of opposition, American journalists have by and large turned on a dime and become cheerleaders … He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government. … So three days after taking office, Obama executed a 180-degree policy turn on the nation’s most emotionally charged subject.…

Jan 26, 2009 – (See below for Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn). Well, to some, Keats is just one more dead, white man. … Based on my own experience with how Cambridge University dis-invited me but then denied having done so, and based on what Douglas has … Ode on a Grecian Urn By John Keats Thou still unravished bride of quietness!…

Jan 26, 2009 – — Tom Brokaw on Barack Obama Yes, the dream of journalist hacks everywhere has been realized. … In the old days, a guy who voted “present” on 130 bills (or 129 depending on the source) while a member of his state senate was rightly … On Tuesday, the media continued to serve faithfully their “21st-century” master.…

Jan 26, 2009 – President Obama ran his campaign on “change” and he declares now at every turn just how changey he is — on torture, the economy, the … We are seeing, I think, the unlimited hubris of a candidate enjoying sky-high poll ratings and media adoration who believes he owes … Indeed, by invoking Limbaugh’s name he brought on not only a finely crafted response (which made a convincing case that the stimulus…

Jan 26, 2009 – The sight is already permanently etched in our nation’s psyche: standing on the steps of the Capitol’s West Front on the day after … For some, it was a day on which healing America’s racist past truly began. … This is, after all, the very same woman whose Princeton thesis on black identification was based “on the premise that there is a distinctive…

Jan 25, 2009 – thinking back on the last two years. … / I’m Zeus on Olympos above mortal cares—but Sean and Rush really piss me off and I want to get even with both! … As stated, even the Left-wing media won’t like looking foolish twice.…

Jan 25, 2009 – As Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters writes, Howard Kurtz, the legacy media’s legacy media critic has a blinding flash of the obvious and … At one point on his Reliable Sources segment on CNN, Kurtz said, “Okay, well then I just want to be clear about it, because MSNBC denies … They don’t always deny it–it just depends on who’s doing the asking.…

Jan 25, 2009 – Almost no one on the Left has any understanding of militant Islam. … The public and politicians, he said, unlike the ritually-leftist media, increasingly understood what was really going on and were beginning … Of course that seems to be lost on the media and with world opprobrium (the UN, that same media, etc.) building against them, Jews…

Jan 25, 2009 – his condo that he had paid for and was paying a mortgage on. … “No,” she said, “he paid on this condo, built equity and now you want your name on it. … It is more than many media personalities will do.…

Jan 24, 2009 – On this week’s show: • Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. … co-hosts Alan Barton and Bill Whittle. • PJTV co-host Joe Hicks interviews Reason magazine editors Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward on … (Also available by free subscription on iTunes.)…

Jan 24, 2009 – If you missed it today on the Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, the latest edition of PJM Political is online at Pajamas HQ. … Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com, an all-star cast from Pajamas Media, PJTV.com, and the Blogosphere, for their thoughts on … the inauguration of President Obama and the early days of his administration: Pajamas Media CEO Roger L.…