In the Running With Utne
Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy
The American Conservative has been nominated for the 2011 Utne Independent Press Award for Political Coverage.
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Selling the War
Posted on April 20th, 2011 by John Glaser
The Washington Post on Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, who is being passed over for leadership of the war effort in Afghanistan: [Rodriguez] is the primary author of the U.S.-Afghan war plan, a 600-plus-page classified document that is a catalogue of the lessons he has taken from three years of fighting the war. …Gen. Stanley A. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, media
Talking Tea
Posted on April 11th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy
I’m putting in an appearance on FreedomWatch with Judge Andrew Napolitano tonight at 8, to discuss the Tea Parties, 2012, and the budget deal. Tune in. (And follow the Judge on Twitter, too.)
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Demonizing Qaddafi
Posted on April 6th, 2011 by John Glaser
A New York Times article on Libya exemplifies the tendency of the press to reinforce the government’s pretenses — as opposed to acting as a critical, nullifying force: In the second-floor office of a burned-out police station here, the photographs strewn across the floor spun out the stories of the unlucky prisoners who fell into [...]
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Beck Bids Adieu
Posted on April 6th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy
His Fox News program is coming to an end. I think Mike Church is exactly right: Beck was attempting to break out of the conventional Republican mold set by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. For a while, the puppet shows and conspiracy theories were amusing, but once the novelty wore off, Beck had no substance [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
Telling the Truth Is Not “War Porn”
Posted on April 5th, 2011 by Mark Nugent
Iconic and haunting photographs from Vietnam helped turn the public against that war. Today, the military’s capacity to manage journalists is much more sophisticated. Kelley Vlahos writes: Most of the mainstream photojournalism in newspapers, television and major online media has been self-censored and packaged according to the rules (who today can afford to lose access?) [...]
Defund NPR? What About Fox?
Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy
Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern argues that taxpayer dollars should not go “for advertising on the partisan, political platform of Fox News.” The Washington Examiner‘s David Freddoso agrees — indeed, end all federal television advertising. “When there is a legitimate issue for the public’s attention, the news media publicizes it. When there’s an emergency, we have [...]
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In Defense of NPR
Posted on March 10th, 2011 by Lewis McCrary
This week’s swift downfall of National Public Radio’s CEO and chief fundraiser must have left Congressional Republicans — who are making another run at eliminating federal subsidies for public broadcasting — feeling like they struck a real blow to one of the conservative movement’s favorite hobby horse targets, the “liberal media.” For all that both [...]
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Fox Fixes CPAC
Posted on February 17th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy
There was just too much cheering when Ron Paul was announced as the winner of CPAC’s straw poll this year, so Fox News aired a clip from last year, when room full of disappointment Romneyites jeered Paul’s first victory. Fox has since apologized and said the tapes got mixed up. A commenter on YouTube had [...]
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Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me…
Posted on February 5th, 2011 by Dennis Dale
Mike Huckabee is on FOX, speaking from Israel, lamenting Mubarak’s–and Israel’s–betrayal by the US. Mubarak deserves a defense and we would do well to hear one, if only to temper the giddy rush to celebrate Egypt’s impending chaos; but the Reverend Huck? Here he is now an apologist for Arab despotism. I didn’t hear him mention the plight of Egypt’s Christians, already [...]
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