Courtesy of Terry Hastings, this piece from Roger Aronoff, who in his Feb 10 Media Monitor column discusses the Democrat push to bring back the old FCC Fairness Doctrine, provides a nice gloss on my post earlier today on the declining standards of avowed objectivity in American media: George Clooney has talked about returning to the days when everyone had the same “fact level.” By that, he means he wants

From Reuters: Secretary-General Kofi Annan intends to ask President George W. Bush on Monday what the United States can contribute to a mobile UN force to stop the killings, rape and pillaging in Sudan’s Darfur region. The United States has offered military planners for the Darfur operation, which will arrive on Monday. But it has made no offer of air coverage or other assistance for the venture, expected to be

From the AP / Breitbart: Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held in “unforgivable” conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida’s hands by routinely blocking

Among the Washington Press corps today, talk is centering nearly exclusively on the “timing” of the information flow that followed Vice President Dick Cheney’s non-lethal Saturday hunting accident (the VP sprayed birdshot into one of his party)—watching the White House press briefing right now, I find myself mesmerized by the interest reporters are showing in this story, from the tenacity of their questioning of Scott Mcclellan to their desire to