Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Bucy, both associate professors in the Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications say that Republicans were the beneficiaries of media bias during the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections: In their research, Democrats were more likely to be subjects of the “lip-flap” effect, while Republicans more often got the last…
Category: Media
Lies, Damn Lies, and We’ll Force You to Listen to Them
More members of the Democratic Congress are revealing their desire to re-regulate the talk radio marketplace by breathing new life into the corpse of the Fairness Doctrine. The reason behind the plans is obvious and it has nothing to do with the public welfare. AM radio was essentially worthless until conservative political talk shows began…
Hating God and Republicans
Kathleen Parker hates Sarah Palin, that much we knew from her poison pen columns. Now the cat’s out of the bag as to why: it’s because Palin is a Christian. In Parker’s view, Palin’s religion – that of the most solid part of the Republican base – is responsible for the party’s failures at the…
Study: TV Sex Leads to Teen Pregnancies
The Washington Post reports that a new study has determined the obvious: teenagers who watch sexually explicit programs on television are more likely to become pregnant than those who don’t. “Watching this kind of sexual content on television is a powerful factor in increasing the likelihood of a teen pregnancy,” said lead researcher Anita Chandra….
Sarah Palin on SNL…ZZZzzz….
I stayed up to watch Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, wondering if John was right to fear that Palin would embarrass herself or the SNL team would do it for her. That didn’t happen. In fact, the show was a completely humorless bore save for a hilarious two-minute “Palin Rap” by Amy Poehler. SNL…
Dividing America
An oft-repeated refrain is that Americans are more divided than ever before. Now David Neiwert says that Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann should be censured for saying the media investigate members of Congress who hold anti-American views. True, Bachmann’s statement is not worthy of a Congresswoman. But there’s more to consider, as I discuss below. First,…
The Intellectual Left and Censorship
It’s common knowledge that conservatives are old, white-haired, white-skinned men with money who don’t care what anyone thinks save for those like them. The corollary is that it’s the left who are the staunch defenders of freedom in everything from retroactive birth control to homosexual marriage to free speech. Everyone knows that. Unfortunately there’s one…
Leftist Relativism Inconsistent, Childish
At TalkLeft, TChris provides a textbook case of all that’s wrong with the far left’s moral relativism in this post about Saudi Arabia’s new death penalty crime – showing Turkish soap operas during Ramadan. [Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council, Sheikh Saleh al-] Lohaidan advised the station owners that “those who promote corruption in belief and…
Sarah Palin’s Nomination in Doubt?
Shaun Mullen of the once Moderate Voice says that Sarah Palin’s nomination for Republican Party’s vice-presidential slot is in jeopardy: Party elders not in the thrall of Phyllis Schlafly and James Dobson understand that McCain’s candidacy already is crippled by his own lackadaisical performance on the stump and twin albatrosses glowering on his shoulders by…
3 Cheers for NBC
I rarely watch network televisions programs (with the notable exception of Mad Men, which is aired on AMC and so not exactly in the mainstream), so I couldn’t say one way or another whether NBC airs quality programs or not during regular prime time. But the network deserves a round of applause for editing gold…