Archive for the 'Watchdogging the Media' Category

24
July
2007

Sheriff Clarke and his Twisted Dispensing of Discipline

Sheriff David Clarke is capriciously dispensing discipline on internal affairs cases. Let’s do something different for this story. We’ll let the readers match the facts of the cases to what they believe the disciplinary result was.
Case 1: off duty deputy solicits an undercover MPD officer for sex, gets arrested. This is a [...]

29
May
2007

Fox “News” Exposed

It was a moment of reflection. I was thinking to myself, “has anything changed”? Do the American people understand the hardcore GOP bias that our corporate media has? Generally speaking, the answer is still “no”.
But there is one glimmer of light. Now this is just a guess, and I have nothing [...]

19
May
2007

Stupidity Talks, and Talks, and Talks …

What will it take to get the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to drop Jonah Goldberg’s column? I suppose it’s too much to hope for some sort of on-air slip that makes advertisers flee in droves.
Just as the problem with “Mallard Fillmore” is not that it’s conservative, it’s that it isn’t funny, the problem with Mr. Legacy Pundit’s [...]

14
April
2007

Feds Should Reimburse Georgia Thompson for Legal Fees

Imagine a time when the government would come down on a citizen and force her into a legal battle which would exhaust her life savings and strip her of her good name.
That time is now.
Republican partisan and US Attorney Steven Biskupic did just that when he went after state administrator Georgia Thompson with the flimsiest [...]

7
April
2007

Sunday Notes: AirTran, Midwest and McGee

AirTran versus local perceptions
By now it’s old news that AirTran upped its offer to Midwest stockholders 13 percent to $15 a share last week, or $389 million. The offer was again extended, this time to May 16, just in time for Midwest’s annual stockholders meeting May 23.
But Jim’s Watchdog post “AirTran Deal Not [...]

19
February
2007

Watchdog Milwaukee inspires Journal-Sentinel “Watchdog Report”

Watchdog Milwaukee regularly scoops the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel but that’s to be expected. We ask a lot of tough questions and have some biting commentary that a news source which relies on sponsors doesn’t necessarily want to offend those who pay the salaries. At the same time, they have many reporters who do a [...]

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