Posts tagged “NPR”
A Pathetic Little Bigot From Brooklyn
Over the weekend, the Associated Press produced a fair-and-balanced report about the controversial Cordoba House community center in Manhattan, the one that’s slated to be built on the hallowed ground that was most recently consecrated as a Burlington Coat Factory store. AP‘s headline for the story is “Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated“, [...]
Go Figure!
When you see the headline “New York’s Little Pakistan Responds To Floods“, you hardly expect the very first sentence of the story to be: In the U.S., raising money for relief efforts following Pakistan’s devastating floods has been slow. (Today’s episode of Cognitive Dissonance in the Media was brought to you by NPR.) Bookmark on [...]
On The Evolution Of The Deepwater Horizon Spill Rate Estimate
For some reason, BP thinks it is in their best interests to pretend that the continuing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is just a trickle, and not a torrent. I imagine this stems from their conviction that, without their cooperation, it will be pretty much impossible for anyone to ever come [...]