Awards For The Year's Worst Reporting

The Bulletin ^ | December 30, 2008 | Herb Denenberg,

[IbJensen]

The quotes that follow show you how extreme the biased, dishonest and fraudulent journalism of the mainstream media has become.

Just do what millions have done: cancel your subscriptions!

[screaminsunshine]

There has been no “reporting”. I would call it “advertising” for the DNC.

[Izzy Dunne]

A Pew Research poll found that an overwhelming majority of the pubic thought the media was routing for Mr. Obama.

That would be "rooting", for those of you speaking English.

As for "pubic", well, that explains the tingling of Chrissy's leg, I guess.

[MoreGovLess]

“There has been no “reporting”. I would call it “advertising” for the DNC.”
Or what the government-mafia bosses expect of us.

[ClearCase_guy]

Along these lines, some weeks ago NPR went to Oklahoma (reddest of the red states) and interviewed McCain supporters. Then went to malls, churches, some patriotic street parade -- they went all over, seeking out people who had voted for McCain. And they asked these people "In the month since the election, has your impression of Barrack Obama changed at all?"

And you know what? It seems that 100% of the McCain voters in Oklahoma are now strong Obama supporters. They had all been impressed. They were all pleased. They were all optimistic about the future. They all thought that the country was now moving in a better direction.

Pretty amazing, isn't it?

[Izzy Dunne]

Just do what millions have done: cancel your subscriptions!

I once subscribed to NewsWeek, but I cancelled it in 1978. Once you do that, you don't have any further effect.

[randita]

One of my favorites from Dean Reynolds:

The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.

[IbJensen]

Nitpicker.

NYT needs proofreaders in order to lay them off.

[MIT-Elephant]

I wonder how many people they had to interview to get a couple minutes worth of soundbytes from flip-flop voters.

[screaminsunshine]

U got it. The takeover is complete. We have only a little time until the purges begin.

[muir_redwoods]

I canceled my 40 year-old subscription to The Hartford Courant the two days after the election when they ran a sympathetic cover story about the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright and how he was doing after being savaged by evil Republicans.

I wrote them a letter telling them exactly why I was canceling, how I had delivered the paper as a boy and how I had been a subscriber for over 40 years and my parents before me. I suggested that their obviously political bent in their reporting was undoubtedly related to the demise of their's and almost all other papers in the country.

I'm not sure they got the point.

[Libloather]

"The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."

And the year isn't over yet!

[screaminsunshine]

The worst thing about waiting in a Doctors office is only having Newsweak and Slime Magazine to read. I try but can’t do it. I find the unreadable.

[SuziQ]

What is even more frightening than this guy flying over the cuckoo nest is that he is now considering a run for the U.S. Senate out of Pennsylvania. We can easily handle his raving and ranting on MSNBC, but I shutter to think the kind of damage he could inflict as a U.S. senator.

What's really frightening is that if he does win, he could possibly be joining Al Franken in the Senate. Talk about a debasement of "The World's Greatest Deliberative Body"!

[ClearCase_guy]

I wonder how many people they had to interview to get a couple minutes worth of soundbytes from flip-flop voters.

Actually, I think the interview subjects were the equivalent of seminar callers: lifelong Democrats, people who campaigned for Obama, but who were willing to go on the radio and say "I am a Republican, but you know what? I now believe that Obama is the greatest president we've ever had!"

[The Great RJ]

The MSM has simply morphed into the Ministry of Propaganda for the Obama administration.

[autumnraine]

I’m sure they didn’t get it and chucked your letter into the “That guy’s a racist” bin.

They will continue to do that until they find that either something is wrong with them, or EVERYBODY is a racist.

[camle]

almost everything they said about Sarah Palin was not only in error, but downright nasty. hardly journalism’s greatest moments.

[BluH2o]

If the same standards applied by the mainstream media to Mrs. Palin were applied to Caroline Kennedy and Vice President-elect Biden, both would have been laughed off the stage almost immediately. But the mainstream media transforms two jokers into aces, a remarkable card trick indeed.

How about the prince of jokers? The biggest joker of all the anointed one, the appointed one, the messiah.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Since we're nitpicking...

We can easily handle his raving and ranting on MSNBC, but I shutter to think the kind of damage he could inflict as a U.S. senator.

I'm quite sure he intended to say shudder.