http://media.nwblog.com Commentary on the media's role - or lack of interest - to report stories of importance. en-us http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=447 08/17/2006 3:30:45am - Did you hear? The NSA wiretapping program was just ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, who ordered an immediate halt to the program.   Who cares???? I want to know about JonBenet!   In the media's latest demonstration of its complete... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=445 08/07/2006 3:28:13am - Perhaps you heard about this picture. Perhaps not. While browsing YahooNews on Saturday, I stumbled upon a an image of Beirut that was so blatantly doctored, I wasn't sure whether to be more upset with the editor's inability to spot it, or cheer the ... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=441 07/21/2006 6:25:42pm - Who wants to lose weight?   Who wants to see the sky 'boom'?   Two different things.   So why are stupid media and conservative christians always screwing it up?   There's a big... no, huge... no... GOD-sized difference between th... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=413 05/28/2006 4:43:43am - You may not know it, but a portion of every penny you pay to the government as part of Federal excise taxes on phone usage, has been going to an old fund originally set up to fund the Spanish American War. Way back then, it was a luxury tax on the ri... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=366 02/14/2006 12:33:40pm - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Washington, D.C. - Vice President Dick Cheney, tired of being among the few White House elite to suffer from regular heart attacks, has announced an ambitious new extension to his already successful GroupThink strategy, i... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=354 02/06/2006 7:32:46pm - ... not to mention some 500 Iraqis...   We could all hope for it -- MSNBC apparently does -- but it's just a misspelling on their web site tonight:       Amazing. They should really consider having an extra pair of eyeballs look o... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=318 01/15/2006 1:36:25am - Those are the words written by Zhao Jing, a Chinese "dissident" speaking out about the recent shut-down of his blog site by Microsoft, who acted on a request by the Chinese government to censor the writer for his anti-Beijing views.   As it turn... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=296 01/09/2006 1:00:47pm - A New Mexico resident recently found out why sometimes, it's best not to meddle with nature. Specifically, why not to experiment with the flammability of the common mouse.   It turns out this fellow was tired of the little intruder running arou... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=288 01/07/2006 2:06:42pm - Guess Delay isn't so innocent after all....       What great timing this is, too, what with Jack Abramoff's guilty pleas... guess we'll see for sure in coming weeks.   This guy should have stayed with pesticide sales. Because now ... http://media.nwblog.com/?PostID=281 01/04/2006 3:27:51am - Here's one on how the mass media seriously screwed up early reports of the poor miners who they thought had survived, when in fact all but one are now dead.   Look at this screenshot from Yahoo News earlier tonight... note the primary headline w...