Iran says CIA, Army are terrorists (9/30/07, page A17)
How is this any different than what Democrats say every day?
Blogger, grandmother gets OK to embed with Marines in Iraq (9/30/07, page A3)
Kristin Bender, MediaNews
“Since the invasion of Iraq was such a disaster, are you going to go ahead and invade Iran?”
How many marines are going to jeopardize their lives to keep this woman alive so she can ask ignorant questions like that?
Did this gramma-blogger bother to ask the two Iraqi women she interviewed how they liked [...]
Bush signs bill to make college more affordable (9/28/07, page A15)
Ben Feller, AP
No, he didn’t make college more affordable. That’s just crap from my congressman’s office.
What he did is have the taxpayer pick up the tab for so-called needy students. That DOES NOT MAKE COLLEGE MORE AFFORDABLE.
If you want to make college truly affordable you have to start with not paying your chancellors and their [...]
Water districts prepare to sue over Delta pumps (9/28/07, page A8)
Don Thompson, AP
So four water districts are going to take ratepayer money and sue a ratepayer funded power plant because it kills too many delta smelt fish.
Great. The ratepayer is getting screwed twice. At least, becaue the power plant is going to have to change it’s ways in order to avoid killing the smelt. Meaning [...]
House OKs health care program (9/26/07, page A11)
Tony Pugh, McClatchy
Here’s how bias in the media works. Use the following subjective terms:
popular
biggest
victory
ideologically intolerable
Then combine them into a story where you as the writer COMPLETELY ignore why the president is opposed to this particular bill. Instead, take a emotional quote from a Republican and put it in paragraph 7 so no one can accuse [...]
State will consider new laws to ensure integrity of grades (9/26/07, Front Page)
Matt Krupnick, CCTimes
So these geniuses in Sacramento, who can’t even balance a budget, think they can outsmart an insider with new laws.
All these clowns are going to end up doing is creating new high paying government jobs that we the taxpayer are going to have to pay for. And these jobs WILL NEVER GO AWAY.
AND, [...]
Cabinet member lobbied EPA against California (9/25/07, page A8)
Frank Davies, MediaNews
Wow, can this newspaper slant a headline or what?
1. Nothing illegal was done, no matter what the headline implies.
2. Altenate headline: Cabinet member saves California families money