Here’s a nice roundup of the year’s best of the worst from the media. Too many really to try and narrow down, but Accuracy in Media gave it a go. I think they missed quite a few, but that would likely turn into a book, rather than an article.
Watch The Decline: The Media Lowlights Of 2009
By K. Daniel Glover
Climate “scientists” are about as trusted as used-car salesmen or congressmen these days thanks to the beating their profession has taken in the “ClimateGate” scandal. But give the alarmists their due: They know how to hide the decline.
Their friends in the media, on the other hand, are not quite so skilled at chicanery. The press practices plenty of sniper journalism, the kind that kills unaware readers and viewers from afar. But journalists attack in the open often enough that Americans can watch the decline of the Fourth Estate in all of its embarrassing glory.
They had a lot to watch in 2009 — a year marked by the media’s anointed leader moving into the White House, liberals ascending to one-party control of Washington and, to hear journalists report it, an angry mob of dangerous extremists daring to reject the hope-and-change narrative.
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The Left’s Blind Eye to the Obvious
By Jack Cashill
The approach of the new year might be an appropriate time to summarize what I have learned in researching the several books and articles that I have written this decade. That I came to own — or even break — many of the stories involved, although satisfying to me, should appall any ordinary citizen.
These stories were too big for a responsible media to miss. They became mine as a result of what I call the “ABETTO Syndrome.” For at least the last generation, the left in general, and the media in particular, have been turning A Blind Eye To The Obvious — ABETTO. Here are some nuggets the media chose not to notice. These are all thoroughly and inarguably documented.
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