STUART VARNEY ADDS TO HIS PAST UNCARING VIEWS

Stuart Varney of Fox Business gives a big smack to federal employees and apparently is glad they are being furloughed.




Read more on it at Media Matters HERE.

REID MISQUOTE A POOR EXAMPLE OF A GROWING TREND

Media Matters gives a great take on how news outlets can misinform viewers/readers with partial comments.

Take Sen. Harry Reid and the quote going around in which he was asked if he would fund cancer research for children during the government shutdown. The answer being reported is, "Why would I do that?"

But Reid's answer was in repsonse to Sen. Chuck Schumer who was himself responding to a question about the shutdown from CNN's Dana Bash.


Reid had said he did not believe Congress should pick and choose what to fund, prompting Bash to ask, "If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?"

Sen. Charles Schumer responded to her question by asking, "Why pit one against the other?" and Reid added in, "why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own."

For CBS News and others to report it in the way that they did is misinforming and bad journalism.

NEW BOOK CHRONICLES 1910 L.A. TIMES BOMBING

Kudos to Lew Irwin, longtime Los Angeles area newsman and author of Deadly Times, a new book on the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times by some hardline labor union leaders of the day.

A great insight into the struggles of the times and the defense work of one Clarence Darrow, who represented the accused and was himself accused of bribing a juror.

Great take on a very unknown incident in newspaper history.

GEORGE WILL TO FOX: WHO HELPS WHO?

Should we be surprised that George Will goes to Fox News? But does it benefit him or the network more?

With his syndicated column and ABC News spots, that network's credibility aided him more than Fox News might. Perhaps just money or some internal battle at ABC?

'DAILY NEWS' PROVES PAGE ONE MATTERS

This New York Daily News front page from Tuesday is getting a lot of attention, even today.

Shows newspapers still have relevance and they ability to grab attention better than any news outlet.

 

PATCH EDITOR FACES JAIL TIME FOR REFUSING SOURCE REVELATION

Interesting case out of Illinois brewing with a local PATCH editor facing jail time for refusing to reveal a source in a grisly murder case.

Joe Hosey of the local PATCH that covers Joliet, Ill., is getting some powerful support from the likes of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and National Press Club in his fight.

PATCH reports:

Two more journalism organizations have joined the swell of criticism to a Will County judge’s decision to hold Patch editor Joe Hosey in contempt of court for not revealing a confidential source.
The Illinois News Broadcasters Association, Radio Television and Digital News Association and National Press Club each released statements criticizing Judge Gerald Kinney for not acknowledging the Illinois shield law, which has been in effect since 1982.
“If Kinney prevails, then there are no guarantees,” said Bob Roberts, WBBM News broadcaster and Freedom of Information Chair of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association. “The shield law becomes an empty shell. States replicate each other, so if you gut the shield law here it will start happening in other states soon.”
On Sept. 20, Kinney ordered that Hosey be held in “minor direct criminal contempt” for not giving up the source of investigative reports that detailed the grisly Hickory Street murders in Joliet. Hosey's prescribed punishment for maintaining confidentiality was $1,000 fine, $300 in fines for every day he does not divulge the source from Aug. 29 on up to 180 days and then incarceration.

Read more HERE.

FOX NEWS ANTI-OBAMACARE SLANT HITS NEW HIGH

Watching Fox News try to cover the first day of online registration for Obamacare finds some of that channel's worst slanted attacks.

Claiming some online glitches are a preview of widespread failure is beyond even their track record of poor reporting.

Eric Wemple gives a good account of it HERE:

As uninsured Americans find themselves on the eve of getting brand-new options to secure health care, desperation at Fox News is surfacing. It has been fighting this law from the start, highlighting any bad news related to the Affordable Care Act and suppressing the good news. The tone has been uniform; the skepticism has spread across most time slots; and the inspiration comes from on high, as Fox News chief Roger Ailes has made public his disregard for Obamacare. Let the record show that Fox News, in its assault against Obamacare, has moved from attacking legislation to attacking Q and As.

Read more HERE.