May 03, 2006
Biased News Writing at the Associated Press
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AP - Wed May 3, 1:54 PM ET |
Let's "de-construct" the paragraph above, shall we?
"In the shadow" implies a small thing standing in the shadow of a larger thing. I got some news for youse - the "silent majority" is starting to stir, to think seriously about breaking that silence.
"Huge" doesn't imply anything - it states outright that something is very large, and it is, in fact, a true statement in the context of the paragraph.
"Pro-immigrant" is, at best, a 1/4-true statement. Those doing the demonstrating were not demonstrating for all immigrants, or even all illegal aliens. They were specifically demonstrating for illegal aliens who are Spanish-speaking to receive amnesty, to be allowed to stay in the United States, and to go travel to and from their native lands without hinderance.
"Opposition Minuteman Project" is a flat-out lie. The Minuteman Project is FOR enforcement of existing law, and is assisting the Border Patrol by observing and reporting violations of our borders.
Bias in news reporting? At the Associated Press? See it all HERE.
I'm shocked, simply shocked!
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December 18, 2005
"Conventional Wisdom" About Katrina is Wrong
It would appear that Katrina didn't discriminate - after all, evil weather doesn't care what your skin color is.
According to THIS ARTICLE in the LA Times...
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TThe bodies of New Orleans residents killed by Hurricane Katrina were almost as likely to be recovered from middle-class neighborhoods as from the city's poorer districts, such as the Lower 9th Ward, according to a Times analysis of data released by the state of Louisiana. The analysis contradicts what swiftly became conventional wisdom in the days after the storm hit — that it was the city's poorest African American residents who bore the brunt of the hurricane. Slightly more than half of the bodies were found in the city's poorer neighborhoods, with the remainder scattered throughout middle-class and even some richer districts. - - - - - New Orleans was the site of most of Katrina's fatalities; the state reported that 76% of storm deaths statewide occurred in the city. Of the 380 bodies from New Orleans that have been formally identified, a moderately disproportionate number are white. New Orleans' population was 28% white, yet 33% of the identified victims in the city are white and 67% black. |
Someone needs to tell the authors of this article, Nicholas Riccardi, Doug Smith and David Zucchino, that you need to make sensationalist and non-factual claims to get the big megabuck book deals.
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December 16, 2005
Apologies
Evidently, the "news report" I linked to about the Iraqi Election fraud was bogus. See my erroneous post HERE.
I guess if it was in the NY Times, and was too good to be true, then it really WAS too good to be true.
My apologies.
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December 14, 2005
Election Fraud in Iraq
What's amazing about this story?
C'mon, you can tell me, can't you?
OK, I'll tell you what's amazing - an article in the NY Times printed something derogatory about Iran ahead of the evil doings of the American military.
Really! See it HERE.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 - Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said. The tanker was seized in the evening by agents with the American-trained border protection force at the Iraqi town of Badra, after crossing at Munthirya on the Iraqi border, the official said. According to the Iraqi official, the border police found several thousand partly completed ballots inside. |
I may swoon, or have an attack of the vapors, or something.
UPDATE: Evidently the NY Times got it wrong, and there was no capture of several thousand partly completed ballots.
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