Ann Coulter slams Farah as ’swine,’ publicity whore
Conservative superstar Ann Coulter launched a verbal assault on WND Editor Joseph Farah today, calling the veteran journalist “swine” and a publicity whore after she was dismissed as a keynote speaker for the news site’s upcoming “Taking America Back National Conference” here.
“[F]arah is doing this for PUBLICITY and publicity alone,” Coulter wrote in an e-mail [...]
Lip service to transparency: Free Press fails to disclose direct lobbying
“Paying lip service to transparency and being transparent are two different things,” said Josh Silver in June after the Wall Street Journal published reports about “a series of secret meetings … between the Federal Communications Commission and top industry lobbyists.”
A proponent of net neutrality and director of the media reform nonprofit Free Press, Silver has [...]
Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks
A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site’s actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military.
The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange [...]
Obama Gutting Freedom of Information Act
After taxpayers bailed out the financial sector amid much public outcry last year, political and open-government observers are wondering how the Securities and Exchange Commission will now be allowed to skirt certain Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests under a new federal law.
Tucked inside a bill revamping the financial industry, signed by President Obama on [...]
WikiLeaks must be stopped
Let’s be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible — including to the United States’ enemies. These actions are likely a violation of the Espionage Act, and they arguably constitute material support [...]
Daily Kos Editor Says Skeptics Should Commit Suicide
A Daily Kos contributing editor has suggested that “Steve Milloy and his buddies” commit suicide or be euthanized apparently for the crime of opposing global warming alarmism.
Amid a rant on his Examiner.com blog about skeptics “carpet-bomb[ing] newspaper editorial pages with climate change disinformation…], Steven Alexander, who writes for Daily Kos under the nom-de-plume “Darksyde,” wrote [...]
Nobody Can Fire Andrew Breitbart
As the mainstream media synchronized their watches over the Shirley Sherrod affair, the object of their little trench raid was clear. Demonize Andrew Breitbart for the unethical publication of a video featuring Ms. Sherrod uttering racist remarks at an NAACP awards dinner.
You could see the strategy. The MSM wanted to discredit and demonize Breitbart so [...]
JournoList Sinks Lower
The Daily Caller has released the latest batch of JournoList messages, and it’s a shocker: the journalists and other assorted left-wing intellectuals (!) debating what apparently was the hottest topic of the hour, Sarah Palin’s son, Trig. I had thought that the belief that Trig was really Bristol’s baby was an insane idea held [...]
‘Armed Citizen’ blog bludgeoned by lawsuit
A popular blog that has kept citizens abreast of how Americans successfully defend themselves from crime by being armed has been suspended while its organizers deal with a copyright infringement claim from a newspaper, the blog itself has announced.
According to a statement from David Burnett, whose work has included compiling the subject information on the [...]
MSM “JournoLists” demanded FCC revoke Fox’s broadcasting license
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a [...]
