The Media Campaign Against Gun Ownership — June 2000
The Media Campaign Against Gun Ownership The Million Moms March was not a grassroots uprising of mothers but a slick media event orchestrated by Bill Clinton’s public…
Category: Media Bias
Are Schoolchildren For Sale to Advertisers?
Corporate advertisers know that their television audience is dwindling rapidly. It used to be so easy to market their products to tens of millions in neat 30-second segments…
Y2K and the Man of the Century
Most Americans have concluded that the media hype about Y2K computer breakdown and terrorism dangers were mostly that, just hype, probably for the purpose of maintaining media ratings…
Media Spin Is Covering Up The Facts
Media spin is disguising and distorting the facts that Americans need to know. Let’s puncture some of the spin. Spin: The Republicans lost the 1998 Congressional elections. Fact:…
The Problems of “Rethinking” the Internet
When asked by reporters whether she favors curbs on the Internet, which has played a key role in breaking the news about the President’s scandals, Hillary Rodham Clinton…
What Will Clinton’s Legacy Be?
The political pundits and TV talk show personalities have begun talking about a subject they think is in their domain to decide: what President Clinton’s legacy will be.…
The Military’s War Over Marriage
The media have been in a feeding frenzy again. It’s so much more exciting to cover the military’s sex scandals than tedious news such as the budget or…
The Phony Cries of “Censorship”
If the education establishment wants to know why public schools don’t get much respect from our citizenry, they need look no further than an Op-Ed editorial…
Why Was Voter Turnout So Low?
Less than half of eligible voters cast their ballots on November 5. Voter turnout hasn’t been that low since 1924. Should we blame the American people for not…
Political Slush Funds
The media are persistently presenting us with reports that voters are “angry,” usually with the implication that this condition is the voters’ fault and is some kind of…