Category Archives: MEDIA BIAS

especially local examples

Mr. Metevier Goes to Washington.

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Designated2

This is a big day for the QC’s premier broadcast journalists. Ok, I’m kidding. I am referring, however, in sarcastic terms to KWQC-TV ‘s Monday spectacular,”Mr. Metevier Goes to Washington”. Yep, Channel 5’s (706 in HD) Gary Metevier will have … Continue reading →

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Dan Lee Takes Wraps Off Man-Crush in Dispatch

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Designated2

Dan Lee, ethicist, waxing columnist, conscience of the Dispatch and Argus, the arbiter between conservatives and liberals (to be correct just agree with his brand of liberalism ) the tertium quid kid (a tiresome schtick, and one he doesn’t perform … Continue reading →

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Scanning the Dispatch . . . So That Serious People Don’t Have To

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Designated2

From Dan Lee in Sunday’s Dispatch regarding last week’s Obamacare decision: “It is worth underscoring that Roberts is in no way saying that whatever Congress wishes to do is just fine.” “In rejecting the commerce clause rationale, he (Roberts) was … Continue reading →

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Notes from the Liberal Zone: Reading the QC Times

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Designated2

Note to Human Resurces Department —  Crank may be putting in for hazardous duty  . .  reading the QC Times  raises one’s blood pressure. Maybe, as a reluctant reader of the QC Times, I could be wrong, but I think … Continue reading →

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QC Times Game Plan Exposed

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Designated2

The editorial board of the QC Times should be comfortably seated somewhere in a rubber room with no sharp objects with which they could hurt themselves and be required to read this column by Victor Davis Hanson. It dramatically describes … Continue reading →

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The Most Corrupt Justice Department in U.S. History

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Designated2

Clarice Feldman’s latest column in American Thinker   . . .  is a  searing indictment, I believe,  and so to will anyone who objectively reads her column.  We have the absolute most corrupt Justice Dept. in US history. More important for … Continue reading →

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The QCT and the A-D Team Up In More Ways Than One

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Designated2

Is there a dime’s worth of difference between the newspapers printed here in the Quad Cities?  Given that they now cooperate on local stories and extensively share distribution channels, their delivery personnel could put the wrong newspaper on a porch … Continue reading →

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Surely this is Parody

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Designated2

“His credentials as commander-in-chief are sterling and he has proven unusually adept in foreign policy…he has done an admirable job under trying circumstances …”  Now, who said that, about whom? Why, it was the erstwhile weather guy, turned hack columnist … Continue reading →

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The AP: Living Up to its Reputation . . . “All the News that’s Fit to Help ‘The One’ “

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Designated2

The AP also known as “The Administration’s Press” came up with this contrivance of a an article of worth:   OBAMA WIN COULD COST ROMNEY $5 MILLION IN PERSONAL TAXES That’s a major AP story in Tuesday’s beloved QC Times: … Continue reading →

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Reeder’s Reefer Madness

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Designated2

In isolation, a small thing , admittedly, but it does provide an additional insight into the “objectivity” Scott Reeder of QC’s “newspaper of record”, the Moline Dispatch, brings to his coverage of politics and government. I think it reflects, as … Continue reading →

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