RADAMISTO (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
(h/t Eric Boehlert at COUNTY FAIR ) Another print person has written that right-wing radio is detrimental to a healthy political discourse: Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News: 11/10/08 06:35 AM Virulent talk radio may be a loser, too Douglas Turner As station ownership became more consolidated, talk radio became more virulent, if not violent, and one-sided. With consolidation came irresponsibility....
US Presidential race 2008 rea (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times : Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger — Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity dive shamelessly in, talking about the ‘Obama recession’ and other partisan lines. — You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies …
Democrat=Socialist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Headline: “Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger”… this is what passes as journalism? Excerpt: A healthy skepticism is not only the media’s right but its obligation. Indeed, commentators at many mainstream outlets — including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal — have already argued that Obama’s best bet to succeed will be if [...]
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
James Rainey , media writer for the Los Angeles Times, accuses Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and unnamed others of being "intent on poisoning the soil before bipartisanship can take root." One may peruse an online catalog of Mr. Rainey's recent writings to see what contributions he has made to bipartisanship lately, and a quick perusal indicates these consist chiefly of cheerleading...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
LATimes.com James Rainey reports the items for sale include LAT's Nov. 5 front page on an aluminum printing plate ($20), a mini-poster, T-shirts and coffee mugs. He writes: "Newspaper folks feel like it's about time they figured out a way to make money, what with millions of dollars in ad revenue lost to Internet competitors."
Gay News Watch (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... most-viewed Times' stories of the year and was followed by a story in the LAT from media writer James Rainey and tons of other media attention. Daniels for a time chronicled her transformation in a blog at LATimes.com; the blog entries have been removed and the Times has so far posted nothing about Penner's return. I emailed him and Sports Editor Randy Harvey, who replied, "We're...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
[HT: Patterico .] Check out the headline from the November 14, 2008, column by Los Angeles Times "media critic" James Rainey : Right-wing radio sounds false alarm on 'Fairness Doctrine': Impose a mandate on broadcasters to balance their political views? That would be onerous indeed. But memo to Rush:...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
James Rainey’s latest column at the L.A. Times contains the following headline: Right-wing radio sounds false alarm on ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Impose a mandate on broadcasters to balance their political views? That would be onerous indeed. But memo to Rush: Nobody’s asking for that. Nobody? Really'? Memo to the headline writer: yes, someone is. Here’s one example: Ed Morrissey [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
[HT: Patterico .] Check out the headline from the November 14, 2008, column by Los Angeles Times "media critic" James Rainey : Right-wing radio sounds false alarm on 'Fairness Doctrine': Impose a mandate on broadcasters to balance their political views? That would be onerous indeed. But memo to Rush: Nobody's asking for that. "Nobody's asking for that"? Not quite. As Patterico and Hot...
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
AWAITING OBAMA'S ORDERS Sleazy LA Times Attacks Talkers Over Shutdown Fears The same publication that actively aided Barack Obama's campaign by suppressing a potentially incriminating video is now leading the charge against the Dear Leader's critics in talk radio. Far left attack dog James Rainey of the dying Los Angeles Times , who just last week falsely accused hosts of behaving "shamelessly"...
ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
A Nov. 9 NewsBusters post by Rusty Weiss bashing the Los Angeles Times' James Rainey for an article that, in Weiss' words, "attempted to castigate the right wing media as a bitter and resentful group of shameless journalists" -- so Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are "journalists" now? -- misleadingly defends Limbaugh. He writes: Questioning our under-experienced President-elect isn't...
Hot Air (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Today’s entry in the Los Angeles Times by James Rainey on the Fairness Doctrine presents a confused and contradictory dismissal of the concerns raised by Democratic members of Congress talking about its resurrection. Rainey goes to great pains to dismiss these concerns as a “pigment of their imagination”. [...] Read the rest »
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
James Rainey of the L.A. Times notes how Sean Hannity made a pretense of supporting Obama while deliberately stoking the fires of antagonism against him....
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
The Los Angeles Times’ media journalist James Rainey take a look at how right-wing pundits Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are dealing with Barack Obama’s victory. “[W]hen he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash,” Rainey writes of Limbaugh, “he doesn’t pretend to [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
In what can only be described as delusional, Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey attempted to castigate the right wing media as a bitter and resentful group of shameless journalists - attributes that can only describe the liberal media's behavior for at least eight years now. The title itself, ‘ Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger,' demonstrates that Rainey will not...
