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Michael Yon on the Pulitzer Prize

From Michael Yon’s Online Magazine:

Michelle Malkin was the first serious blogger to suggest that my work deserved consideration for the Pulitzer Prize. Her sentiment was echoed by thousands of email messages and comments on the open forum site, asking me about a Pulitzer Prize, and whether my work might receive such a great honor. I was clueless. I knew that Pulitzer was synonymous with first-rate and prestigious, but that’s about it. A Pulitzer Prize was as far from my mind as the moon was from my feet.

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01 Feb 2006 by Islamic Terrorism Media Military

Newspapers in a Slump

Just what does the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post (and a number of other liberal rags) expect will happen when they constantly filter the news and blatantly lie about current events? Thanks to a few conservative outlets, Fox News Channel in particular and the bloggers, newspapers are being exposed for their bias and are in a slump. We believe that network televised news like CBS, ABC and NBC will follow suit unless they get the bias out of their reporting. MSNBC, CNN and other left-slanted cable outlets already dwell in the ratings cellar.

From Dow Jones News:

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–The nation’s newspaper companies are expected to end 2005 on a weak note as the industry grapples with a persistent advertising malaise and declining circulation.

Newspapers will see a median drop in profit of about 10.9% from a year ago, according to a forecast from Goldman Sachs. That would mark the third consecutive quarter of earnings declines, with a slump of 10.6% in the third quarter and 3.2% in the second quarter, Goldman said.

Newspaper companies began reporting their latest quarterly financial results on Wednesday with Lee Enterprises Inc. (LEE), which posted a 16% drop in its fiscal first-quarter earnings, hurt by costs associated with its June acquisition of Pulitzer Inc. Other newspaper companies will start reporting their quarterly results next week.

Newspaper ad revenue will probably gain a scant 1% to 2% in the fourth quarter, its weakest performance of the year, said Peter Appert, who follows the publishing industry for Goldman.

“It’s pretty much the same variables that we’ve seen all year: softness in the retail ad category and very disappointing auto ad trends,” Appert said. “National has been a mixed bag.” Help-wanted and real-estate advertising have seen some strength, but not enough to offset the weakness elsewhere, he added.

Circulation, which accounts for roughly 20% to 25% of industry revenue and is an important metric for setting ad rates, also is expected to drag on results.

Circulation revenue has been “declining hard,” said Fred Searby, publishing analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Part of the drop is because many publishers have been cleaning up their circulation practices in the wake of scandals involving falsified figures at a handful of papers, which have resulted in steeper than usual declines in reported circulation figures across the industry.

“That’s a one-off hit,” Searby said. But the trends in circulation “are bad anyway,” amid competition from the Internet and 24-hour news channels, he added.

22 Jan 2006 by Blogosphere Media Whacko Politics

USS Ronald Reagan Shipping Out Today

Godspeed to the officers and crew of the USS Ronald Reagan as they deploy from San Diego today. The Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), is scheduled to deploy today on a mission “in support of the War on Terror.” Greater than 5000 crew members aboard will participate in the mission.

The Reagan recently deployed on training exercise JTFEX 06-2 Dec. 7-15 off the coast of Southern California. The training was designed to be a realistic exercise in real-world operations and the operational challenges faced by U.S. forces in cooperation with coalition militaries.

The exercise was the final step in preparing the Ronald Reagan Strike Group for its upcoming deployment and will test the group’s ability to plan and execute alongside other U.S. and coalition forces in a complex, hostile warfighting environment.

Damsel and I wish the USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group a safe and successful mission.

04 Jan 2006 by California Islamic Terrorism Media Military

Mr. Weird Beard

Just who the hell does liberal media writer Neil Gabler think he’s fooling with the phony beard color? Is it a fashion statement to make his whiskers match his shirt? WTF?

Damsel and I were watching Fox Newswatch today and noticed that Gabler’s beard was reminiscent of the toy where a magnetic wand is used to position iron particles on a clown face enclosed in a transparent plastic bubble. We saw the same clown face without the bubble, and the same phony-looking iron-filing gray beard. Oh, and the shirt too – same color. Of course, Gabler may be competing for visual attention since he sits next to Cal Thomas, whose conservative opinions are often not heard because of Cal’s deafening shirt-tie combinations – but then, I digress . . .

Coincidentally, Gabler’s silly-looking beard is compatible with his ridiculous liberal viewpoints. And do you think it’s also a coincidence that Gabler resembles the world’s most famous clown?

Apologies to Emmett Kelly Jr. for any implied comparison.

31 Dec 2005 by Humor Media Whacko Politics

DOJ Opens NSA Surveillance Leak Probe

It seems to me that the person(s) who leaked information about secret NSA surveillance operations to the media should be charged with treason. Also, The New York Times and big media in general, should be held culpable as well. I believe that in a time of war, the administration has every right, and indeed the responsibility, to conduct this sort of covert surveillance. People who have nothing to hide should have no problem with this concept; only those who seek to protect criminal and enemy operatives seem to have a problem with the surveillance.

Justice Department Opens NSA Spy Leak Probe

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of information to the media about a domestic eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency, senior Justice Department officials confirmed Friday.

Officials have confirmed to FOX News that the FBI is involved in the investigation, but did not comment on whether other agencies were involved, or when the investigation began. One official has said the referral for the probe came from the NSA.

More information from FOXNews.com – Politics – Justice Department Opens NSA Spy Leak Probe

30 Dec 2005 by Islamic Terrorism Law and Order Media

One Reporter’s Opinion

No one who lived in the Los Angeles area between the fifties and the seventies, will forget the iconic television newsman, George Putnam. One of the regular features on his newscast was “One Reporter’s Opinion,” during which he would editorialize on a topical issue. I enjoyed watching Putnam’s newscast, primarily because of his conservative point-of-view in spite of the liberal Times-Mirror‘s ownership of the television station, KTTV.

Well, I’m happy to report that George Putnam’s “One Reporter’s Opinion” feature is alive and well at NewsMax on line. Better yet, his politics are still in line with reality:

One Reporter’s Opinion – Americanism Left ‘Cold in the Night’

It is this reporter’s opinion that the very heart of America is under attack. There are those, foreign and domestic, who actually HATE this great nation and all it stands for. Led by atheists and the ACLU, there are groups who would love to destroy the promises on which our nation was founded – our very way of life.

Aided and abetted by strange court decisions and oddball judges, each day brings a new shocker. We find federal judges ruling against the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional, finding that “one nation under God” violates schoolchildren’s right “to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.”

The latest target of the atheists is to remove “in God we trust” from our currency, claiming that this phrase violates the so-called separation of church and state.

Continue reading George Putnam’s article on NewsMax: One Reporter’s Opinion – Americanism Left ‘Cold in the Night’

21 Dec 2005 by Cyberspace Media

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