Tag Archives: bad journalism

Political Discourse Olberman Style

Man, the left­ist elites are flip­ping out. It must be hard wak­ing up to the real­iza­tion that democ­racy involves “the peo­ple” and not “you telling the riff-raff what they ought to do”. Con­grat­u­la­tions to Scott Brown this morn­ing but more impor­tantly, con­grat­u­la­tions to the peo­ple of Mass­a­chu­setts who went to the polls in unprece­dented num­bers …

January 20, 2010 – 9:05 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (2)

The State Of Health Care Reporting Is Sad

The front page arti­cle on CNN right now, if read uncrit­i­cally, would have the dear reader to believe that if you are unin­sured in Amer­ica, you are “at mor­tal risk” of dying pre­ma­turely and that 45,000 peo­ple die every year for the sole rea­son that they don’t have health insur­ance. Read more closely and you …

September 18, 2009 – 2:12 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (3)

How To Write Sensational Headlines 101

Here are the facts: Based on two recent stud­ies, sea lev­els will rise between 27 inches and 6.6 feet by the end of the cen­tury. Which one of the fol­low­ing head­lines do you think is writ­ten by a scream­ing alarmist eco-terrorist and which one is writ­ten by a level headed edi­tor? Sea Level Rise May …

September 5, 2008 – 6:01 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Science | Tagged , | Comments (0)