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Chicago Tribune Journalism Offshoring Scandal Ends

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by Warner Todd Huston

July 17, 2012

For months the Chicago Tribune has been suffering the slings and arrows of local critics for having hired a web-based company called Journatic (pronounced Jer-naa-tik) to write many of its small, "hyper local" stories for its Trib Local newspapers.

Critics lambasted the stories after it was discovered they were written by writers in the Philippines for 35 cents per piece -- people that had never even heard of the Chicago suburbs they were writing about. Another big reason the Trib was so mercilessly mocked is because the stories often carried fake bylines with American names instead of the names of the Filipino writers that really wrote them. It seemed to be a matter of integrity. Stories written by foreigners but with fake American bylines seemed too much like calling a computer troubleshooting call-center in India and getting a thick-accented phone tech claiming to be "Linda in Omaha."

OBAMA: If You Watch Fox News, You Are 'Stubborn'

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by Warner Todd Huston

July 14, 2012

More from President Obama, the most negative campaigner in recent presidential campaign history.

time Obama is name calling Fox News fans, saying they are "stubborn" for having the temerity to frequent the most watched cable news station on the air. At a campaign stop in Virginia on July 6, Obama thought it would be funny to take a shot at Fox News.

WaPo Fact Checker: We Don't Check Ourselves

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by Warner Todd Huston

July 3, 2012

Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler will not fact check any facts published by his own paper. Kessler announced in his article that he won't be awarding any "Pinocchios" to the Post's claims that Romney outsourced jobs during his Bain days.

Romney has demanded that the Washington Post retract its deceptive June 21 story but the Post refuses to do so. "The Fact Checker does not check the facts in the reporting of Washington Post writers or columnists," Kessler writes. "We generally confine ourselves to checking the rhetoric used by politicians and interest groups."

Politico Forgets to Mention Democrats Caused Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Problem

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by Warner Todd Huston

July 1, 2012

In its update on the coming student loan interest rate hike deal in Congress, Politico dances its blame-the-GOP tap dance once again, saying that the coming rate hike is all just "politics."

But somehow Politico forgets to note that this interest rate problem is of the Democrats' own making. Reporting that Congress has signed off on a bipartisan deal to halt the scheduled interest rate increase on millions of student loans, Politico takes a paragraph to "explain" what the hold up was.

NBC Dumps and Punishes Newark Mayor Corey Booker

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by Warner Todd Huston

June 6, 2012

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker is apparently now washed up.

He went from being one of the most prominent up-and-coming black Democrats to being on the outside looking in merely because he said something that diverges from Obama's war on capitalism. Now even NBC is kicking him out of its Meet The Press studios. Yep, ol' Corey is finished. Only two weeks after Mr. Booker demurred from attacking Mitt Romney, Bain Capitol, venture capitalists, private equity -- heck, even capitalism in general -- NBC has replaced Booker with another black politician that will better pay fealty to Obama's campaign for a second term, one that is based on a war on capitalism.

Atlantic Covers John Edwards: No Mention of 'Democrat;' Republicans Trashed Five Times

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by Warner Todd Huston

April 14, 2012

Curiously, an Atlantic article that points out Old Media was "late to report" on John Edwards' extramarital affairs and corruption makes its own strange omission from the story.

Somehow, blogger Hampton Dellinger forgets to mention even once that Edwards was, indeed, a Democrat. Yet five times the piece mentions Republicans in order to cast aspersions on the Grand Old Party. This one can be chalked up to one of our favorite games, the "name that party" game, where one can read an entire story about a troubled or criminal politician without once being told that the subject is a Democrat.

How Obama Uses False Media Narratives To Advance His Policies

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by Warner Todd Huston

February 27, 2012

Last week we all got a great lesson in how the left promotes a lie to make Republicans the enemy and this time President Obama was a chief participant.

This is how the game is played: the left-leaning media establishment makes a claim about how rotten Republicans are and Obama then echoes the claim and presents it as the true state of Republican opposition to his policies. The result is that we have a partisan opinion foisted on the public as truth about how mean the GOP is to this poor, well-meaning president. A false media narrative is established by the partisan press, politician adds said meme to a policy speech, presto-chango, a political "fact" is born. But it's all just a partisan hit job masquerading as fact.

Liberal Tactics: Just Lie, No One Will Check!

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by Warner Todd Huston

February 26, 2012

I have to say, at this point I am convinced that no one on the left really hates racism. In fact, they love it as it is their most important tool with which to control gullible voters.

Cry racism and their mind-numbed acolytes dutifully echo the charge whether it is true or not - and it's usually not. Well, they've done it again, cast the race card at conservatives. But this time they fell into a trap laid for them purposefully, set in order to prove their hatemongering, stupidity, cynicism, and lies.

Heartland Institute: The 'Gate' Scandal That Never Was

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by Warner Todd Huston

February 20, 2012

Global warmists finally have an email "gate" of their own that they can turn against "deniers" and they are taking full advantage of it.

The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been "outed" for attempting to undermine the religiously held tenets of global warming. Emails to that effect are claimed to have been leaked from this group and the warmists as well as their handmaidens in the Old Media are touting this scandal as proof of ... well, it's a bit hard to discern what it is proof of, actually. In fact, it isn't "proof" of much of anything. For one thing the documents are fakes, but even if they weren’t, so what?

Media Plays Up GOP Association, Hides Dem Connection In Two Similar Stories

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by Warner Todd Huston

January 22, 2012

Last week two political operatives were arrested in separate incidents, one Democrat and one Republican.

It certainly isn't news that political operatives sometimes break the law, but how the different incidents were reported is typical of how the Old Media establishment uses guilt by association to tar Republicans but rarely does the same thing to take swipes at Democrats. The similarity in the two stories is that both of the accused are former staffers of high profile politicians. The Democrat was an Obama campaign staffer while the Republican was a staffer of the Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. Neither currently works for those high profile pols, but only the Republican was linked to his former boss. The Democrat's link to Obama was mostly ignored by the media.

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