Posts Tagged ‘Salon’
Friday, April 15th, 2016
A few media tidbits of interest have popped up as of late:
I missed this thumbsucker at BillMoyers.com on the decline of journalism from The Nation (no wonder I missed it) in March. It’s full of the usual “great old journalists can’t find jobs” laments, but the words “liberal” and “bias” are conspicuously missing from the piece itself, but not from the comments:
Newsrooms — where journalists were supposed to have their finger on the pulse of their readership — were always an amazingly insular island where true-believing liberals dismissively looked down upon their readers as dim witted and beneath contempt.
Today the mainstream legacy media, comprised of Liberal Democrats, continues to slant and suppress news and information to fit their agenda. Tom Blumer at NewsBusters gives the example of The Los Angeles Times that won’t publish any reader comments seen as denying or even expressing doubt about “climate change.”
Print “news” is now little more than heavily-biased, Leftist agenda reporting designed to advance Liberalism, Leftism, Marxism, Socialism, and all their “ism” offshoots (Feminism, Environmentalism, Globalism, etc.). 50% of your potential readers despise you for your biases and the other 50% agree with you, but still see the bias and thus, don’t trust you.
A big reason many people have turned away from traditional news sources such as papers, is the palpable hostility that so many journalists have for conservatives. Alienating a large part of your customer base isn’t exactly a winning business decision.
But the writer does mention the phrase “social justice” in his piece…in the context of an ex-reporter who landed a job running a strip club…
No wonder being a newspaper reporter now ranks as the worst job in America. “Most reporters long ago stopped reporting and began advocating, generally for Democrats and left-leaning causes. The pride that journalists once took in being objective and remaining separated from the story practically disappeared. It became a profession almost devoid of ethics and was contributing to a decline in readership even before the Internet made life difficult for them.” (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
Layoffs at Salon. Wherever shall we find such insightful commentary as “Is Donald Trump a new Hitler?” now?
Via Moe Lane comes word that “Gabriel Snyder, the editor-in-chief at the New Republic who joined the magazine amid internal turmoil, is leaving his post.” The piece is full of the usual vacuous twaddle about what a great team he had assembled, etc. The piece notes that page hits are up, but fails to list how subscriptions (you know, the thing where readers actually pay to read your magazine; ask your parents if you’re unfamiliar with the term…) have been doing under the new TNR regime. In fact, I have been unable to find the any TNR circulation figure online after about 2010. If you can find them, drop me a line in the comments below.
Heh:
Tags:Democrats, journalism, media bias, Media Watch, Salon, Social Justice Warriors, The New Republic
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Friday, October 30th, 2015
Right now Austin is enjoying our traditional “two weeks of flooding following three months of drought” fall. Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm:
“In Iraq, Obama took a war that we had won at a considerable expense in lives and treasure, and threw it away for the callowest of political reasons. In Syria and Libya, he involved us in wars of choice without Congressional authorization, and proceeded to hand victories to the Islamists. Obama’s policy here has been a debacle of the first order, and the press wants to talk about Bush as a way of protecting him.”
Paul Ryan elected Speaker of the House. If Ryan decides to govern as an actual Republican, he could be a very effective Speaker…
The IRS has Stingray cell phone surveillance gear. Get ready for a whole new round of Tea Party audits…
Speaking of the IRS, the House of Representatives is justified in impeaching IRS chief John Koskinen.
At the most recent Republican Presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio said the H1-B visa program is badly in need of reform. One tiny problem: Sen. Rubio’s own H1-B bill doesn’t implement any of the reforms demanded by Presidential Candidate Rubio. “It does not require recruitment of American workers. It does not require employers to ‘pay more than you would pay someone else’…Rubio’s bill would provide Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his comrades ‘a huge increase in the supply of lower-cost foreign guest workers so they can undercut and replace American workers.'” Indeed, Rubio’s bill “would triple the number of H1-B foreign workers admitted.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Get ready for steep ObamaCare price hikes for 2016.
Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition is starting to come apart thanks to the refugee crisis.
Venezuela is selling gold to cover bond payments. (Hat tip: Commonsense and Wonder.)
Al-Shabaab Islamic militant group in Somalia pledge loyalty to the Islamic State.
The Islamic State schools ban: “math, music, philosophy, history, French and geography as incompatible with Islam.”
Not news: Journalist in Sweden gets stoned. News: The wrong kind of stoned.
Teacher’s hate Common Core. The only people that seem to love it are Washington bureaucrats and Jeb Bush…
Speaking of Jeb, He has not succeeded this year, and there is no particular reason to believe he will…Jeb just isn’t very good at this.”
“Even beyond the fact that Bush has spent almost a year and ended up among the statistical noise despite all of his organizational and financial advantages, this all but proved that he’s simply not a good enough candidate to run in the general election.”
Jeb Bush’s campaign also hasn’t knocked on any doors in Iowa.
Ben Carson’s campaign is working with other Republican Presidential campaigns to extract their debates from the liberal clutches of the MSM.”
How to fix the Republican debates: “First, cancel the rest of the debates. Instead, announce that the RNC will host the debates and pick the panel of questioners. Allow any news organization that wishes to broadcast it.”
A look at the Russian BMD-2 infantry fighting vehicle.
John Wiley Price trail delayed again.
Reminder: Most acts at SXSW don’t get paid.
Feminism is “a War Against Human Nature aimed at using the coercive power of government to bring about an androgynous ‘equality’ that ignores the actual differences between men and women. Feminism is a totalitarian movement to destroy civilization as we know it — and feminists say so themselves.”
Salon’s pro-pedophile agenda:
How to stamp out Cultural Marxism in a single generation.
Flash is dying. Netcraft confirms it…
Tags:Ben Carson, BMD-2, Bush43, Common Core, Cultural Marxism, debate, education, Facebook, feminism, George W. Bush, Germany, Glenn Reynolds, Iraq, IRS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jeb Bush, John Koskinen, John Wiley Price, LinkSwarm, Marco Rubio, Media Watch, Military, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, pedophilia, Republicans, Robert Stacy McCain, Russia, Salon, Social Justice Warriors, Venezuela
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Thursday, July 30th, 2015
And here’s the second part of that Camille Paglia interview. Choice quotes:
“‘Sneering at religion is juvenile, symptomatic of a stunted imagination.’ It exposes a state of perpetual adolescence that has something to do with their parents—they’re still sneering at dad in some way.”
“All the great world religions contain a complex system of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe and human life that is far more profound than anything that liberalism has produced.”
“The real problem is a lack of knowledge of religion as well as a lack of respect for religion. I find it completely hypocritical for people in academe or the media to demand understanding of Muslim beliefs and yet be so derisive and dismissive of the devout Christian beliefs of Southern conservatives.”
“I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone.”
“I don’t demonize Fox News. At what point will liberals wake up to realize the stranglehold that they had on the media for so long? They controlled the major newspapers and weekly newsmagazines and T.V. networks. It’s no coincidence that all of the great liberal forums have been slowly fading.”
“Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true! Liberalism has sadly become a knee-jerk ideology, with people barricaded in their comfortable little cells. They think that their views are the only rational ones, and everyone else is not only evil but financed by the Koch brothers. It’s so simplistic!”
“It is everyone’s obligation, whatever your political views, to look at both liberal and conservative news sources every single day. You need a full range of viewpoints to understand what is going on in the world.”
Things Paglia is a fan of: Drudge, Salon, The Guardian and The Daily Mail. Not a fan: Christopher Hitchens.
Tags:Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Daily Mail, Democrats, Drudge, Fox News, Jon Stewart, Media Watch, Salon, The Guardian
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
So how the hell did this ever get past the editors at Salon?
As they rampage and behead their way through Syria and Iraq, ISIS fighters know they have the Koran on their side – a book they believe to be inerrant and immutable, the final Word of God, and not at all “malleable.” Their holy book backs up jihad, suicide attacks (“martyrdom”), beheadings, even taking captive women as sex slaves. This is not surprising; after all, the prophet Muhammad was a warrior who spread Islam by the sword in a dark, turbulent time in history. (Christianity’s propagation had, in contrast, much to do with the Roman emperor Constantine’s fourth-century conversion and subsequent decriminalization of the faith.)
Moreover, the razor-happy butchers of little girls’ clitorises and labia majora, the righteous wife-beaters, the stoners of adulterers, the shariah clerics denying women’s petitions for divorce from abusive husbands and awarding sons twice the inheritance allowed for daughters, all act with sanction from Islamic holy writ. It matters not a whit to the bloodied and battered victims of such savagery which lines from the Hadith or what verses from the Koran ordain the violence and injustice perpetrated against them, but one thing they do know: texts and belief in them have real-life consequences. And we should never forget that ISIS henchmen and executioners explicitly cite their faith in Islam as their motive.
To be sure, writer Jeffrey Tayler couches his critique (which focuses on Islamist apologist Reza Aslan) in the usual “look at the violence in the Bible” rhetoric, and in a general defense of atheism. Still, it’s quite remarkable for Salon to be catching up with what conservatives have been saying for more than a decade.
Who are you and what have you done with the actual Salon staff?
(Hat tip: Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, who notes “Has Bill Maher made it safe for Leftists to admit that there is a problem with how jihadis and supremacists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression?”)
Tags:Islam, Jeffrey Tayler, Jihad, Media Watch, Reza Aslan, Robert Spencer, Salon
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Friday, August 8th, 2014
Another roundup of news, a disproportionate amount from the Middle East, disproportionately bad.
Old and Busted: “Never again!” The New Hotness: “Genocide? Meh. Case-by-case basis.”
More on the ISIS campaign to wipe out the Yazidi and other religious minorities.
Obama says he’s authorizing air strikes “if necessary.” Even when threatening military action, Obama manages to sound wishy-washy.
There are conflicting reports as to weather ISIS or the Kurdish Pesh Merga hold the Mosul dam.
Hamas demands that Israel kick their ass some more.
Rick Perry: “Since September of ’08, we have seen 203,000 individuals who have illegally come into the United States — into Texas — booked in to Texas county jails…These individuals are responsible for over 3,000 homicides and almost 8,000 sexual assaults.”
Quiz: Real Salon or Parody Salon? Difficulty: Impossible.
Leland Yee pleads not guilty to racketeering charges. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Won’t someone think of the poor federal employee who have nothing to do all day but spank their monkey to online porn?
Why did Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell proclaim a day in honor of convicted Louisiana felon Ed Edwards?
It has to be said: Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the fashion sense God gave a turtle. Two words: Lane Bryant.
Soldiers’ military kits from 1066 to 2014.
There’s a website dedicated to the world’s tallest men.
Tags:Austin, Border Controls, Ed Edwards, Foreign Policy, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Israel, Jihad, Kurds, Lee Leffingwell, Leland Yee, Louisiana, Military, Pesh Merga, Rick Perry, Salon, Yazidi
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Today the Washington Post announced that it was putting money-losing news magazine Newsweek up for sale. You may remember Newsweek‘s decision a couple of years ago to remake itself as a liberal opinion magazine (something ably lampooned by the indispensable Iowahawk). Since then, Newweek has managed the amazing feat of actually losing readers faster than most legacy media.
Of course, that brings up an interesting question: Which left-wing news outlet would you most like to see go out of business first? To that end, I’ve created a poll:
Vote away, good reader, vote away!
Tags:CBS News, MSNBC, New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, polls, Salon
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