Category Archives: News21 Blog

You don’t have to care about where President Obama was born (and I don’t, it’s utterly moot) to find it newsworthy that he and his sponsors and handlers are and long have been (newest dateline, 1991) willing to endlessly, shamelessly … Continue reading →

Newspapers are free to take sides, always have been.  But what happened to the journalistic convention of separating the editorial page from the news columns, and flagging on the latter any departure from just-the-facts as “analysis” or “opinion”?   The … Continue reading →

Major print and broadcast outlets in Colorado allegedly feature a lot more commentators who tout the Republican party (me included) than those who tout the Democratic party.  So says local media critic Jason Salzman of BigMedia.com in a recent Huffpo … Continue reading →

Everybody knows we tend to see what we’re looking for, play up the evidence that matches our expectations and discount the contrary evidence.  So does that trope color conservatives’ (or liberals’) perception of media bias?  Curtis Hubbard, Denver Post editorial … Continue reading →

Mike Rosen calls out media’s malpractice on Florida shooting with doctored audio, dishonest photos, and all-around “hoodie journalism.” http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_20327311/hoodie-journalism

For those who missed the March 2 Centennial Institute conference, “Media Fairness in the 2012 Campaign,” C-SPAN televised some of the panels and posted the videos online. “Now a panel discussion on political spin, and media coverage of campaigns and … Continue reading →

Steve McCann sums up the bind Rick Santorum has gotten into with a hostile media, in an American Thinker piece today, “Media Power Defining Santorum.” “It is vital that presidential candidates, particularly in the Republican primary process, understand the vital … Continue reading →

Denver Post TV-radio columnist Joanne Ostrow has a Sunday 2/12 article headed (in print; it’s different online) “Air  wars: Why do conservative talkers have all the fun?”  Though it seems to be a sincere effort at analysis, not merely a … Continue reading →