The Carroll Standard

Benghazi a Blip on Media's Radar - Less Than 2 Minutes of Coverage on ABC, CBS; NBC Punts

As the Big Three's evening newscasts ignored the latest in the controversy over the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya for seven straight days, their morning shows aren't doing much better.

ABC and CBS Ignore Their Own Reporters As Benghazi Blackout Reaches 7 Days

For the seventh night in a row, ABC’s World News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News refused to give one single second of coverage to the Obama administration’s deceitful response to the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11. According to the Media Research Center, the last time Benghazi was discussed on one of the flagship network evening news casts was the October 25 edition of CBS Evening News.

The Media’s Coverage of the Libya Attacks: From Slanted to Suppressed

Americans of all political stripes were distressed by the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. But the reaction of the national broadcast networks has been demonstrably and shamefully partisan from the beginning of this story.

Gwen Ifill Book Party: My "Truth" Won Out Over Conservative Bloggers

The liberal media elite piled into David Bradley"s Embassy Row mansion in northwest Washington DC on Monday night to celebrate PBS anchor Gwen Ifill"s book The Breakthrough, touting the ascent of black Democrats in the Age of Obama. (FishBowl DC has a nice photo of the hope-and-change Barack Obama cookies at the party.)

So didn"t writing this book taint her as a debate moderator? Ifill told the book party crowd no, the "truth" won out and the question-raising conservative bloggers (like NewsBusters) lost. From the New York Observer:

The Lack of Media Coverage of Pending SCOTUS Cases is Pandemic of a Failing Media

There have been very few, if any, accurately reported mainstream media accounts available outlining the Obama "Natural Born Citizen" question in front of SCOTUS. Those that have reported on the cases have interjected so much hyperbole and obfuscation in their reports, the core issue has been all but lost in the pre-school essays. The ongoing debate in the blogosphere,

A Free Press in Carroll is Pravda Reborn

Jim Lee, the editor of the Carroll County Times, wrote a piece in the opinion section, outlining his policy on letters to the editor. (We would like to link you to the article, but it has been removed from the Times web site. Happenstance?  We think not.)