“Media bias” on The Daily Caller

Last week, Breitbart.com revealed that NBC had edited the tape of George Zimmerman’s 911 call in a way that makes Zimmerman, the man who shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in February, look racist. Even Kevin Drum, a blogger for the left-wing magazine Mother Jones, called NBC’s deceptive editing of the tape a “cockup.” But the edited 911 tape is just the tip of the iceberg; mainstream journalists have consistently misreported the facts surrounding Martin’s shooting. It’s enough to raise questions about the integrity of those journalists, and whether they’re allowing their personal biases to affect their reporting. (more)

It’s bad enough to see the media make assumptions in advance of the facts. What is so depressing about the coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting is the extent to which the media made assumptions not only before the facts were available but in spite of contradictory evidence that was already available. (more)

Even after the Duke lacrosse case, Texaco executives allegedly using the N-word in private meetings — which turned out to be “St. Nicholas” — the Tawana Brawley case, not to mention virtual hailstorms of racist graffiti and nooses materializing on college campuses, all of which invariably end up having been put there by the alleged victims, the Non-Fox Media (NFM) didn’t even pause before conjuring a racist plot in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida last month. (more)

Considering the mainstream media’s consistently harsh coverage of Republicans and light touch on Democrats, I think it’s time to propose some journalistic standards of fairness. Otherwise, we might have to endure another New York Times-style hit piece, like the one the paper printed four years ago alleging an adulterous relationship between John McCain and a lobbyist. There were zero facts to support the claim. (more)

Mitt Romney won more than twice as many delegates on Super Tuesday as Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. The non-Fox media’s take-away is that Romney suffered a major setback Tuesday night. (more)

If North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue is not America’s dumbest governor, a whole lot of us here in the Tar Heel State would be very surprised. (more)

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s blistering smack-down of CNN’s John King during last week’s South Carolina debate will go down as one of the most memorable moments of the 2012 campaign. Now comes the shocking revelation that Gingrich’s big applause line during said smack-down was false. Yes, “shocking revelation” is meant to be sarcastic. The applause line seemed obviously false to me on its face, as anyone could have figured out upon 10 seconds of reflection. No one seems to have invested those 10 seconds — certainly not my fellow Republicans, who were too caught up in their Newt sugar high to ponder the consequences of the inevitable crash. (more)

The reporters and editors at The Washington Post don’t care about millions of dead babies. But they sure get worked up about a single dead cat. (more)

Mitt Romney is “weird.” At least he is sometimes to some in the Obama campaign. He’s “slick,” with an “innate phoniness” and “personal awkwardness.” Oh, and just coincidentally, Romney’s a Mormon. (more)

If the mainstream media had their way, President John Kerry would likely be in the final year of his second term. Vice President John Edwards might be a leading candidate in the 2012 Democratic primary. In this alternate universe, John Kerry’s three-month stint in Vietnam would be a footnote in his storied rise to power. And most Americans wouldn’t know that he acquired three purple hearts without bleeding in battle. (more)

The post-mortem analyses of the recently concluded U.N. climate summit in Durban, South Africa continue to be churned out by pundits and reporters alike. The results have been spun both positively and negatively, yet some of the reporting has fallen short of even being factual. (more)

Unless the bastards come after me again, this is my last column on a national disgrace. (more)

You’re a network reporter. You’ve drawn the short straw and have to cover a prayer rally led by a conservative politician and involving representatives from a group whose social views you abhor. “Even some mainstream Christians are concerned about the event,” you report. To prove it, you could interview a Catholic priest or even a gay Episcopalian bishop. (more)

In covering the merciful end of Herman Cain’s campaign Saturday, an MSNBC contributor said that Cain had been a major player in the Republican Party but would now be relegated to a historical footnote. The truth is that Herman Cain was never a serious candidate nor a serious politician or representative of the Republican Party. He was a fringe, gaffe-prone candidate (albeit a charismatic one) from day one. (more)

“Nothing drives this blog quite as crazy as media organizations that don’t answer questions about their own journalism.” (more)

I have something to confess: I’m conservative, and I love The New York Times. (more)

Thank you, Politico, for dragging our already divided and depressed nation back to the “high-tech lynching” days of Justice Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. (more)

The Iron Curtain was the symbol of the Cold War. It represented the Soviet Union’s attempts to keep the people of Eastern Europe isolated from the free thought and prosperity that capitalism brought to their neighbors. (more)

Ignore Ron Paul at your peril. (more)

Jack Shafer had his list ready. The celebrated media critic, who was laid off from Slate a few weeks ago then picked up by Reuters, was doing a live chat discussion on September 21 at the journalism site Poynter.org. A reader asked him about liberal media bias and what to do about it. Shafer, apparently off the top of his head, offered this: (more)