Charles Crawford, over at the Commentator - whose comments system, based on the Hell that is Disqus, sucks - fisks the incomprehensibly influential doofus Will Hutton on the horsemeat scandal. And totally misses the point. Hutton:
“As the horsemeat saga unfolds, it becomes more obvious by the day that those Thatcherite verities – that the market [...]
Posts under ‘Journalism’
Right over both their heads
The Department of Shoddy Journalism
The circulation figure for the lefty rag, New Statesman, fell over the edge of a cliff some time ago and is still plummeting. Hardly surprising, if this is the standard of journalism.
Martha Gill writes an online column she calls Irrational Animals. Her latest outpouring is entitled, Why “family men” make terrible bosses. It’s possible Ms [...]
Israeli Elections 2013.
The balance of power will be held by a political party headed by a television presenter (the son of a another media type) who has promised everything (education, health, housing) to everybody - and who is known (even to his actual supporters) as “Pretty Boy”.
Anyone want to explain how Representative Democracy is a good thing?
Two bad cases of the DTs
From The Telegraph on the subject of the predecessor to the Bloodhound SSC project…
Thrust SSC was, at 4m wide and 10 tonnes – powered by twin Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, more commonly found beneath the wings of an F-4 Phantom II jet aircraft – an unwieldy beast. Rather than simply tweak its design, Noble and [...]
Support Mitt Romney - says Paul Marks.
Yes I know this means that Governor Romney is doomed. My support tends to have that effect…
I also know that I have been attacking Mitt Romney for years.
However, the endorsements of Comrade Barack Obama by Mayor Health Fascist Bloomberg, and the vile Economist magazine, are just too much.
If they are on one side - I [...]
The “Chicago Way” with unemployment numbers.
Since Comrade Barack Obama has been President of the United States of America unemployment has been above 8% of the workforce (a workforce that is smaller than it used to be - inspite of the working age population growing, work that one out) - now (a few weeks before the election) the Federal government declares [...]
The terrible year of 1986.
A post on an often overlooked year - 1986. A year in which events occured that had (and are having) terrible consequences.
A British person when hearing of the date “1986″ will think (if they think of anything) of the “Single European Act” - formally it came into effect in 1987, but the agreement was made [...]
Two World Wars and One World Cup (and the Americans).
This is a gem of idocy from Walter Ellis of the Telegraph…
Most of the world, China now included, views football as the number one team game. You had only to turn on your television or pick up a newspaper in England’s final days in Euro 2012 to realise that, for the English, beating the Germans [...]
What is really happening in Spain.
Amongst all the media talk of “savage cuts” in government spending in Spain (supposedly government spending is being cut by “17%” - surely that should mean that government spending next year will be 17% less than it is this year, does anyone believe it will be?) I have noticed the following facts……
Civil Service pay is [...]
Perhaps I just see (and hear) things differently from other people.
Presently there is a lot interest in Barack Obama’s you-forgot-the-mike-was-on comments to the Russian Prime Minister. All about how November was his last election - and after it he, Comrade Barack, would be able to….
Most people (apart from the msm - the BBC, who normally broadcast Comrade Barack’s every word, do not seem to making [...]
Science Fail From the Daily Mail
1. Why is the moon sometimes out in the day?
2. Why is the Sky Blue?
3. Will we ever discover aliens?
4. How much does the earth weigh?
5. How do aeroplanes stay in the air?
6. Why is water wet?
7. How do I do long division?
8. Where to birds / bees go in [...]
Al Hunt is a C*** - but actually it is the “mainstream” media in general.
The ulitimate establishment show on American television, where business leaders as well as political leaders (and …..) go to be guests and get asked softball questions is the “Charlie Rose” show of “Public” (i.e. taxpayer financed) television and Bloomberg television. Bloomberg being the financial news operation created by Michael Bloomberg the establishment Mayor of New [...]
Soviet propaganda is not dead: How Max Keiser mixes truth and lies for the new alliance against the West.
People who believe that propaganda is just a stream of lies are mistaken.
Someone might listen to someone who just said nothing but “1+1=190″, “the sky is made of rice pudding”, “the CIA made me kill my children” (and on and on), but they would not listen to such a person EVERY DAY and they would [...]
Hip-Hop Diplomacy and the War on Cameras.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time:”Send an American rap crew on a tour of Pakistan to help build bridges between two countries whose relations have plumbed new depths this year”.
But after being detained by security officials in Rawalpindi and then seeing a major concert cancelled by a venue in Lahore [...]
