I just wanted to touch briefly on this topic, because of a double standard that I am officially sick of. When I, as a liberal, state a claim or a story, it is expected of me to provide credible evidence from either a major news outlet, government documents, educational documents or the like. When conservatives make a claim, they can use trash. Well, not here what is good for me is good for you, I am calling that out on the carpet here and now. You want to make a reverse claim on me, then do the work, find the credible sources and don't waste my time with trash. Let's go through the truth on several conservative propaganda rags shall we, and really look at them, from behind the scenes...

1. Fox (Faux) "News": If these clowns are reporters then so am I. Completely biased as is the other 39% of media in the pockets of Rupert Murdoch, as shall also be the fate of the Wall Street Journal (cancel your subscription now). Here is just a handful of the over 100 articles I have posted with videos and links showing the bias of the Faux news network...

• Court: Fox Can Lie If They Want To ... . - ekyprogressive
  August 1, 2007 8:34 PM (EST)

• Fox Propaganda. Murdoch Bids on Dow Jones. - ekyprogressive
  May 13, 2007 7:56 PM (EST)

• Ron Paul on Fox. Fox Trying to Trip Him Up. - ekyprogressive
  August 5, 2007 8:26 PM (EST)

• Fox's War on Liberals. - ekyprogressive
  June 3, 2007 6:11 AM (EST)

• Protests & Announcements. Fox vs Cnn. - ekyprogressive
  January 28, 2007 2:47 AM (EST)

• Fox Follow-up. More Media Problems. - ekyprogressive
  May 14, 2007 10:01 PM (EST)

• Fox vs Obama. Stop the Propaganda Before 2008 - ekyprogressive
  February 22, 2007 7:42 PM (EST)

• Propaganda of Fox; Today's Other Stuff. - ekyprogressive
  December 25, 2006 3:16 PM (EST)

• Fox Against Black America. - ekyprogressive
  April 4, 2007 10:54 PM (EST)

• Spinning Libby..fox Lies. - ekyprogressive
  April 14, 2007 10:45 PM (EST)

• Oklahoma & Biohazards in the Salt Plains - ekyprogressive
  May 11, 2007 2:28 PM (EST)

• Fox Propaganda: Murdoch Admits Bias. - ekyprogressive
  March 1, 2007 3:08 PM (EST)

• Fox Propaganda and "Push Polling" - ekyprogressive
  April 3, 2007 4:30 AM (EST)

• The Fox Democratic Debates. Why it Was Canceled - ekyprogressive
  April 27, 2007 11:25 AM (EST)

• Silencing Troops, or Isolating Their Info? - ekyprogressive
  May 15, 2007 8:15 PM (EST)

• Fox News Makes You Stupid. Studies Show. - ekyprogressive
  July 1, 2007 11:21 PM (EST)

• Armitage Leak Myth. - ekyprogressive
  July 4, 2007 12:23 AM (EST)

• Justice & Spin, Again and Again. - ekyprogressive
  May 15, 2007 1:04 PM (EST)

• Cspan Ban? Rudy Stuff. Czar is Chosen. Doj Crap! - ekyprogressive
  May 16, 2007 10:19 PM (EST)

• Troops Testify. More Troops. Rosie. New Scandal. - ekyprogressive
  May 25, 2007 5:11 PM (EST)

2. World Net Daily: Often cited as a credible journalistic source, although there is indeed MANY issues with this rag. The owner played a big part in the attacks on Clinton, I might add. First, from Wikipedia [link], with no disclaimers to bias noted...

• 1 Foundation
• 2 Description
• 3 WND Books
• 4 Congressman Jim Welker controversy
• 5 Web Filtering
• 6 Controversial articles
  • 6.1 9/11 attacks
  • 6.2 United Airlines Flight 93
  • 6.3 Valerie Plame leak
  • 6.4 Middle East reporting
  • 6.5 Terri Schiavo case
  • 6.6 Litvinenko and terrorism conspiracy
  • 6.7 Soy/homosexuality link claim
  • 6.8 Alleged North American Union
• 7 Columnists
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 External links

Foundation

WND was founded in 1997 by Joseph Farah. In 1991, after resigning as editor of the Sacramento Union, Farah co-founded the Western Journalism Center, known for its promotion of conservative causes, with James H. Smith, former publisher of the Sacramento Union.^[2] In 1994 and 1995, foundations controlled by conservative financier and former owner of the Union Richard Mellon Scaife gave $330,000 to the Center.^[3] By May 1997, Farah set his eyes on the internet and set up WorldNetDaily as a project of the Center. In 1999, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc., with offices in Cave Junction, Oregon, was incorporated in Delaware as a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit Western Journalism Center with the backing of $4.5 million from investors.^[4] As a result, Farah and the Western Journalism Center possess the bulk of the WND stock, but the remainder is owned by about 75 private investors. In August 2001, Business Week cited Farah who claimed WND had begun to turn a profit.^[5] Currently the webpage has a staff of approximately 25 people.^[6]

Description

WorldNetDaily is a for-profit website that provides primarily conservative-oriented news and editorials, as well as publishing letters to the editor and maintaining forums and a daily poll. Besides providing articles authored by its own staff, the site links to news from other publications. The website features editorials from the site's founder, Joseph Farah and other conservative authors such as Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and David Limbaugh, as well as liberals like Bill Press and Ellen Ratner.^[7] The site also offers products for sale in a fashion similar to its news articles, advertising these products with related news stories. Typically these are products sold by its related book service, Book Service, publishing house, WND Books, or its retail operation, ShopNetDaily. The site also contains advertisements for WND's printed magazine, Whistleblower, and other companies. WND also operates the G2 Bulletin, a subscription-only website described as an "intelligence resource" for "insights into geo-political and geo-strategic developments."

WorldNetDaily claims to be "the largest independent, full-service newssite in the world.".^[8] WND currently claims 8 million visitors a month to its website[1] . As of November 8, 2006, it is listed by Alexa as the most popular website in the "Conservatism > News and Media" category.^[9] WorldNetDaily articles are often linked by other websites, including the popular Drudge Report.

From July 2000 to early 2002, WorldNetDaily offered a service called TalkNetDaily, which provided an Internet audio stream of a daily talk show by then-WND columnist Geoff Metcalf.^[10]

WND Books

WorldNetDaily also publishes books under the name WND Books. The imprint was launched in 2002 through a partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishers (a prominent Christian publishing house) and released books by politicians and pundits like Katherine Harris, Michael Savage, and Farah himself. The partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishing ended shortly before the 2004 election;^[11] Thomas Nelson has continued the division under the Nelson Current imprint.^[12] The WND Books imprint was subsequently published under a partnership with Cumberland House Publishing^[13] and released books by Jerome Corsi, Tom Tancredo and Ken Blackwell, among other authors. In 2007, Los Angeles-based conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing will become the publisher of WND Books.^[14]

The books include:

• Kenneth Blackwell and Jerome R. Corsi. Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare. WND Books, May 4, 2006. ISBN 1581825013
• Tom Tancredo. In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security. WND Books, 2006. ISBN 1-58182-527-7

 Congressman Jim Welker controversy

In March 2006 Republican Colorado State Representative Jim Welker was criticized for forwarding a WorldNetDaily commentary by Jesse Lee Peterson.^[15] Congressmen criticized Welker for uncritically sending a copy of the article by email, which included the statements "President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks" and accused "welfare-pampered blacks" of waiting for the federal government to save them from Hurricane Katrina. Welker stated that he did not agree with everything in the article. He said that the reason he sent it was because of its message "about society victimizing people by making them dependent on government programs."^[16]

Web Filtering

WND often battles what it claims is unfair blocks by common web filtering applications. For example, Net Nanny blocks WND for "hate / violence" content. [2] At different times, organizations such as the U.S. Marine Corp, U.S. Navy, and American airlines have blocked WND.

Controversial articles

WND has published many articles that have created controversies and criticism of the site by other media outlets. Some of these include:

9/11 attacks

On September 13, 2001, WND published a commentary by Anthony C. LoBaido regarding the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington two days earlier. In his column, LoBaido outlined what he regarded as the moral depravity of America in general and New York in particular, asking whether "God (has) raised up Shiite Islam as a sword against America". ^[17] Commentators Virginia Postrel of Reason magazine and James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal criticized LoBaido and Joseph Farah for the piece and called for columnists Hugh Hewitt and Bill O'Reilly to sever their ties with WND, prompting Farah to respond with a column of his own denouncing Postrel and Taranto as "political correctness police". ^[18]

United Airlines Flight 93

In 2004, WND published a commentary by James Sanders entitled "The Downing of United Airlines Flight 93"^[19] which proposed that, to defend Washington D.C., Flight 93 had been intercepted and shot with a missile by a military aircraft. It also alleged that the government had tried to cover up this information. The article stated:

"Witnesses to this low-flying jet ... told their story to journalists. Shortly thereafter, the FBI began to attack the witnesses with perhaps the most inane disinformation ever--alleging the witnesses actually observed a private jet at 34,000 ft. The FBI says the jet was asked to come down to 5000 ft. and try to find the crash site. This would require about 20 minutes to descend."^[19]

According to a Popular Mechanics article entitled "Debunking the 9/11 Myths",^[20] which mentions WorldNetDaily, there was a low flying jet in the vicinity on descent into Johnstown.

Valerie Plame leak

WND has also published controversial claims about the Plame leak. A 2005 report by Media Matters for America includes the following quote from a WND article:

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.
...
Vallely says, according to his recollection, Wilson mentioned his wife's job in the spring of 2002 -- more than a year before Robert Novak's July 14, 2003, column identified her, citing senior administration officials, as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."^[21]

As noted above Vallely said he was told once in the spring of 2002, but on November 9, 2005, WND reported:

After recalling further over the weekend his contacts with Wilson, Vallely says now it was on just one occasion – the first of several conversations – that the ambassador revealed his wife's employment with the CIA and that it likely occurred some time in the late summer or early fall of 2002. He is certain, he says, the conversation took place in 2002.^[22]

Middle East reporting

In early 2005, WND hired Aaron Klein to run a Jerusalem bureau.^[23] ConWebWatch, a group critical of conservative news, in early 2006 alleged that Klein's articles promoted the causes of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza who opposed Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from those areas.^[24] The group also argued that Klein did not disclose the ties of Israeli activists tied to the far-right Kach and Kahane Chai movement.^[25] When Eden Natan-Zada shot and killed four people on a bus in Gaza on August 4, 2005, he was beaten to death afterwards by a crowd that witnessed the shooting. Klein wrote an article for WND claiming that Zada was "murdered" by a "mob of Palestinians" after the shooting, although he also mentioned that police called the shooting a "Jewish terror attack."^[26] Klein has also written numerous articles critical of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.^[27]

Terri Schiavo case

WorldNetDaily published numerous stories about the Terri Schiavo case. Its articles were generally biased in favor Terri Schiavo's parents and against her husband, Michael Schiavo.^[28] (WND did, however, modify at least one story following criticism to this effect.^[29]) Diana Lynne, who "covered the Terri Schiavo story for three years as a reporter and news editor for WorldNetDaily,"^[30] wrote a book, published by WND Books, that showed a similar bias toward Terri Schiavo's parents and against Michael Schiavo.[3]

Litvinenko and terrorism conspiracy

On December 3, 2006 a WND article said that: "Reports that KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko converted to Islam before his mysterious poisoning with radioactive polonium 210 is raising suspicions that he may have been involved in a plot to smuggle the deadly substance to terrorist groups."^[31] According to an article in The Times, apparently mentioning the WND article, the evidence for these suspicions was "gossip from his Muslim next-door neighbour."^[32]

Say it with me..."Trash rag"...

Free Republic (FR), which identifies itself as "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web," is a "non-commercial, limited liability company founded and operated by Jim Robinson, a private citizen of Fresno California." [1]

Although "Alliances" and "Resources" listed on the website are right-wing / conservative, the Free Republic website claims that it is "not affiliated with any political party, group, news source, government agency or anyone else." Forums include the GOP Club and RNC Caucus and do not appear to include Democratic Party links in any form. "Talk Shows" listed include such right-wing media icons as G. Gordon Liddy, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Tony Snow. [2]

    Yea, theres no bias there..Rush "pillhead" Limbaugh...OUCH...

4. Human Events:

Human Events

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Human Events is a weekly conservative magazine founded in 1944. The magazine takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence which reads "When in the course of human events..."

Thomas S. Winter is the editor-in-chief and Jed Babbin is the online editor[1]. Notable columnists include Ann Coulter and Robert Novak. Human Events is published by Eagle Publishing of Washington, DC, and is a sister company of Regnery Publishing.

According to journalist Richard Reeves, Human Events was former President Ronald Reagan's favorite paper.^{[citation needed]} During face-to-face Cold War negotiations, Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev that he could not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative because the editors of Human Events, "the so-called right wing, and esteemed journalists, who were the first to criticize him," were "kicking his brains out" over the defense system they supported. [2]

Human Events Assistant Editors have been:

• Timothy P. Carney
• David Freddoso
• Robert Bluey
• Amanda Carpenter

: Anne Coulter, there is class for you..Check out the link on Thomas Winter as well. No, hidden agendas there...LOL!!! Get Real!

If you want to be taken seriously, then do what I have to do. Use sources that are peer reviewed, cite sources either with footnoting or by linking to specific sources (like Alternet is good to do, although many haven't heard of them and don't trust them because of that), Gov documents, education documents, Congressional testimony transcripts or the like, or major news outlets that are CREDIBLE. Otherwise, you are wasting time and space...