- Google joins the censorship fun at the request of repressive governments.

- If only outlets reacted this way when the issue isn’t editing an image into a frog, but rather manipulating or omitting facts to convince the reader of an illogical narrative. NPPA president: Sacramento Bee photo manipulation a ‘betrayal.’

- Komen denies that activist media (and the hacking of its website and other related liberal bullying) had anything to do with its reverse decision.

- NYP reports Lawrence O’Donnell is having himself an office romance with Tamron Hall.

- Matt Lauer scores the Obama Superbowl interview. There were rumors of a testy rivalry between Lauer and Brian Williams for the Q & A.

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One of the principal problems with American journalism these days is not simply its ideology, its ignorance or its even outright bias. Rather, it’s its uncritical acceptance of the worst of the left’s philosophical structural framework. Exhibit A is this lede from a piece in the Dallas Morning News yesterday:

Tax breaks Americans savor are costing Uncle Sam big

Dallas physician Steven Davidoff doesn’t fit the stereotype of someone who needs a housing subsidy: raised in Plano , educated at Tulane University Medical School, working as a pulmonary critical care physician.

But Davidoff, 35, is like tens of millions of other Americans who benefit from tax policies that reduce the cost of buying a home. Most of them are like him – affluent enough to buy a home without help, but happy to use a tax deduction for mortgage interest, even though it will cost the federal treasury about $103 billion in lost revenue this year.

And there you have it: the complete, uncritical parroting of the leftist meme that everything belongs to the government, and that the taxes you don’t pay are somehow being ripped from Washington’s insatiable maw and selfishly kept in your pocket.

Have we really come to this? (more…)

An Associated Press article dated Janary 27, 2010 on the incident involving James O’Keefe at Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s office was published by the Dallas Morning News with the following misleading headline:

ACORN foe arrested by FBI in plot to bug senator’s office

There are no allegations of any attempt to “bug” or wiretap Sen. Landrieu in the FBI affidavit, and a law enforcement official has conceded that the four men were not attempting to wiretap or intercept calls.  Furthermore, legal representation for the accused has gone on record stating there were no intentions to wiretap.

We kindly ask the Dallas Morning News to issue a correction/retraction to this story.

We have been/will be making similar requests of other news sources to correct similar errors.  Some, such as the Washington Post, MSNBC’s David Shuster, Talking Points Memo, CBS News, and the Associated Press have already posted corrections or retractions.