Category Archives: MEDIA BIAS

especially local examples

QC Times — Agitprop — And Not Very Good At It

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Designated2

In a breathless page-one article by QC Times’ columnist Barb Ickes, an area seventeen year old student is lionized for being gay and overcoming allegedly having been threatened with death in a phone call that his mother describes.  We say … Continue reading →

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Obama Molesting the Constitution – Republican Response?

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Designated2

The list below was compiled and presented by Kelly O’Connell in a column in the Canadian Free Press Obama’s Puerile Molestation of the Constitution is Gruesome & Exceptionally Dangerous. For “progressive” acquaintances  and liberal editorial boards, like the QC Times … Continue reading →

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Kudos To The Argus – Dispatch

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Designated2

                  Two sequential masthead editorials from the Argus-Dispatch that will be saved from the bottom of the bird cage.  Don’t get us wrong, these grades are based on a curve and only … Continue reading →

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Understanding the AP (and perhaps the QC Times pricing)

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Designated2

Read it and weep for the demise of Big Journalism (or so we hope). This out yesterday from Tom Blumer at PJ Media regarding: “The competition for the most loathsome news organization in the U.S”   We think the Associated … Continue reading →

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Howard Dean Calls Obamacare Rationing . . . QC Times Freaking

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Designated2

The blood letting started almost immediately after the passage of Obamacare, when unions finally read the bill after promoting it, crying foul that they were going to lose their “hard fought” health benefits. But this article by Howard Dean, the … Continue reading →

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Collusion – Bozell and Graham

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Designated2

Collusion, How The Media Stole The 2012 Election  — And How Top Stop Them From Doing It In 2016, the new book by Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell and Tim Graham is highly recommended as a chronicle of journalistic bias, … Continue reading →

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QC Times — No Surprises — Still Shilling For Obamacare

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Designated2

                    A couple of days ago we posted and commented on an  AP article.   Scathing AP Fact – Check: Obama Spins Health Insurance Claims.  Further research has indicated that the original … Continue reading →

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QC Times – Can’t Find Support In QC For Zimmerman Jury Verdict

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Designated2

The QC Times is on the case. Reporting on the George Zimmerman verdict with their typical hard-hitting local angle coverage, ace reporter, Linda Cook went out to get local reaction to the Zimmerman trial verdict. At the direction of her … Continue reading →

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QC Times Wants Compromise On The Issue of Wife Beating

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Designated2

There is usually strong left leaning bias in the Quad City Times masthead editorials,  the themes, the stated and unstated assumptions, the source information, the spin. It still registers in the realm of “bias” if it also provides a mere … Continue reading →

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Dispatches # 3

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Designated2

From our Great Plains Drifter, DLH: Anyone in the QCA interested in knowing what the QC Times editorial board thinks of recent IRS revelations (or any of the other scandals surrounding the most transparent administration ever)  Need we recall their … Continue reading →

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