Brent Bozell on CNBC's unmasking at the GOP debate. MRC president Brent Bozell issued a statement Wednesday night criticizing the overall tilt and tone of the CNBC Republican debate in Boulder: "The CNBC moderators acted less like journalists and more like Clinton campaign operatives. What was supposed to be a serious debate about ... MORE
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An 'Encyclopedic Example of Liberal Media Bias'
Brent Bozell on CNBC's unmasking at the GOP debate. MRC president Brent Bozell issued a statement Wednesday night criticizing the overall tilt and tone of the CNBC Republican debate in Boulder: "The CNBC moderators acted less like journalists and more like Clinton campaign operatives. What was supposed to be a serious debate about ... MOREBrent Bozell: Hillary's 'Victory Lap' Of Lies
Hillary Clinton gives false testimony, journalists yawn. To hear the media tell it, Hillary Clinton came to Capitol Hill as a bullfighter and easily killed the angry bulls of the House Benghazi committee. The "mainstream" media wondered why these crazy Republicans would "walk into the trap" of trying to scrutinize and question a media ... MOREKen Silva: The Government's War On Freedom Of The Press
Transparency in the crosshairs. The U.S. plummeted to a dismal 49th place on the Reporters
Without Borders annual Press Freedom Index,
marking the country’s second lowest ranking since the list was
created in 2002 and its lowest since 2006. Other countries ranked
in the 40s and 50s include Haiti, Mongolia, and Chile. The index cited “judicial ... MORETodd Krainin: Glenn Greenwald - The Outsider
Exposing a government with no constraints. Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer who has lost all interest in making legal arguments. The reason for his indifference should terrify anyone who believes that the law, and not arbitrary decision-making by government officials, should govern a nation. Asked whether NSA mass surveillance is legal under ... MOREThe Importance of Free Speech to Human Progress
by Iain Murray. The massacre of 12 cartoonists and journalists at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris this week should remind us to ask: Why is free speech so important? It is more than an inalienable individual right; it is fundamental to human progress. That is why it is one of the most important institutions of liberty. When we look at the history ... MORE
Lee Stranahan: Authority’s Threat To Citizen Journalism
The government's persecution of James O'Keefe. It’s a scenario that smacks of a movie set in a foreign country. A journalist is arrested and put into shackles. Not just handcuffs, mind you; shackles. He’s taunted by the police and thrown in jail on trumped-up charges. The politically connected prosecutors don’t just work to put him ... MOREAnother White House Mouthpiece Joins Up With MSNBC
Propaganda repository gets new blood. MSNBC: The place where ex-White House aides go to be unbiased. Or, well, something like that. There was a time, years ago, when MSNBC was still pretending to have straight news reporting by not letting hosts like Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews anchor election coverage. But that’s clearly a ... MOREThomas Sowell: Predatory Journalism
Exploiting the ignorant. The New York Times is again on the warpath against what it calls "predatory lending." Just what is predatory lending? It is lending that charges a higher interest rate than people like those at the New York Times approve of. According to such thinking — or lack of thinking — the answer is to have the government set an interest ... MOREIBD Editorial: Press Helps Obama Censor The News
It's not often that the press exposes its own bias. But a Washington Post story this week reveals both the Obama administration's attempts to censor the news and the media's complicity in that effort. For decades, news outlets have relied on pool reports from a rotating group of White House correspondents who follow the president ... MORENSA Spying Threatens Press Freedom and Right to Counsel
by Dan Froomkin. Top journalists and lawyers agree. To do their jobs properly, journalists and lawyers sometimes need to be able to keep information private from the government. And because what journalists and lawyers do is so integral to safeguarding democracy and basic rights, the United States has traditionally recognized their need for ... MORE
David Bauder: NSA Surveillance Is Hampering Journalists
A chilling effect on truth-seeking. Revelations over the past few years about how U.S. security officials have the ability to track people through phone, email and other electronic records are making it harder for journalists to report on what the government is doing, two human rights groups say. Human Rights Watch and the American Civil ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's Chilling Effect
Government-approved tyranny. "Chilling" is the word lawyers use to describe governmental behavior
that does not directly interfere with constitutionally protected
freedoms, but rather tends to deter folks from exercising them. Classic
examples of "chilling" occurred in the 1970s, when FBI agents and U.S.
Army soldiers, in business suits ... MORE
NSA Fearmongering And Propagandizing
by Glenn Greenwald. Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme
fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted
whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because of these leakers and the journalists who publish their disclosures! Lest you think ... MORE
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