Examples of "spiked" news stories
Items which appear to have been deliberately omitted by the mainstream press


News media bias is dangerous because of the way some stories are reported — with important details omitted — and because of the stories that are suppressed.  An example of this (from a couple of years ago) was the contrast between the coverage of Trent Lott's generous words for Strom Thurmond versus the silence about Senator Byrd's "baggage" in connection with the KKK.  Since all that happened several years ago, nearly everybody has forgotten all about it.

The most obviously suppressed issue in the mainstream press is that of abortion.  The Democratic Party, in close cooperation with the news media, does not (and cannot afford to) allow a rational discussion of the facts, because if people would stop to consider what an abortion really is, the practice would come to a halt.

Other issues are also conspicuously absent from the evening news on television.  Most stations do not report suicides and don't report cases where people successfully evade the police and get away with their crimes.  When somebody gets away with murder, a reporter will say, "the case is still under investigation", or, "police are still looking for a suspect."  Even in the newspaper, you have to read carefully to get the whole story in these cases.

Examples of suppressed news stories about the war in Iraq can be found here.  In particular, you may be very surprised to learn that Guantanamo Bay is not as miserable as the media would have us believe.

Examples of media bias related to news about the economy have been moved to this page.

Material about The Secret Superhighway and the Homogenization of North America has been moved to this page.

One of the most successfully hushed-up news stories in history is the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.  No airplane hit that building, yet it suddenly collapsed on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.  The official explanation is that the collapsed resulted from an internal fire, but there was almost no smoke visible when the building fell, which is why there was no news media presence at the building.  We are apparently supposed to forget that it happened, because it hardly made a blip on the news media radar, and the story evaporated within a few days.  More information can be found here.

The discussion of Nancy Pelosi's giant gas-guzzling jet has moved here.

Many other news stories that have received very little coverage (for one reason or another) are shown here.


Retail sales jump by largest amount in 6 months.  The stimulus checks are working.  A big increase in retail sales signaled that people are spending their rebate payments, helping to ward off a serious economic slump, at least for now.

Pelosi Supports Return of Fairness Doctrine.  The mainstream media have remained virtually silent about Pelosi's support for the Fairness Doctrine.  Talk radio's suspicions of a movement to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine were confirmed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday June 24 during her comments at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

Did someone mention the Fairness Doctrine?

Environmentalists Mum on Poisoned Streams.  When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked.  Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city's sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male, and 10 were strange "intersex" fish with male and female features.  It's "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me," said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005.

The Pill as Pollutant:  A really inconvenient truth.  The cause of intersexuality among fish, scientists speculate, is pollution in the water, particularly hormones.  Why don't we have more outcries about hormones, and campaigns to save the fish populations?  Why aren't environmentalists lobbying on Capitol Hill to keep these chemicals from being dumped into our rivers?  Maybe because the source of these chemicals is not some corporate polluter, but something a little more dear to the Left:  human birth-control pills, morning-after pills, and abortion pills.

Inquiry Turns to Humans On Pollutant, Hormone Tie.  Treated sewage, which carries human estrogen and birth-control pill components excreted in waste, has been linked to "feminized" male fish in waters around the world.  In the St. Lawrence River in Canada, a recent study found that a third of male minnows had female characteristics.  Another example might be the Potomac, though the cause of its problems has not been officially pinpointed.

The Editor says...
 I scan through the headlines almost every day of the year, and I first heard of this issue only a few weeks ago.  But apparently there has been some concern about it for at least eight years.  That is why the topic is now being discussed on this page.

Kansas Planned Parenthood Scandal Rolls On.  The scandal in Kansas involving a Planned Parenthood clinic and official government corruption is probably one of the most unreported stories in recent history.  The Kansas media has been dutifully misreporting the scandal and its implications, while the so-called mainstream media (MSM) outside of Kansas appears committed to ignoring it altogether.

Unmasked:  Chinese guardians of Olympic torch.  China's blue-clad flame attendants, whose aggressive methods of safeguarding the Olympic torch have provoked international outcry, are paramilitary police from a force spun off from the country's army.  The squad of 30 young men from the police academy that turns out the cream of the paramilitary security force has the job at home of ensuring riot control, domestic stability and the protection of diplomats.

Rudd says 'no' to China torch guards.  Chinese paramilitary police will not be allowed to run alongside the Olympic torch in Australia, the country's prime minister said Thursday [4/10/2008], after their heavy-handed tactics drew criticism in earlier legs of the relay.  The men in bright blue tracksuits were dispatched by Beijing to guard the Olympic flame on its journey around the world.  They sparked concern in London and Paris, with the top official for the 2012 London Olympics calling them "thugs."

UN-Believable.  When the so-called mainstream media don't want you to know something, they simply spike the story — meaning they just don't cover it. … First there's the strange case of Doudou Diene, the United Nations "Special Rapporteur" on "contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."  He's really a lawyer from Senegal, traveling first-class on a U.N. ticket, and he arrived in the U.S. May 19 for a three-week "fact-finding trip."

Obama's Other Radical Friends:  Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there's been some press about the senator's friendship with this controversial Weathercouple.  Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as "flimsy," that the senator's relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close. … But mostly, the press doesn't want to touch this story — and no one else does either, as if it actually were TNT.

Our Own Oil Cartel.  Last month, with almost no attention from the liberal media, the Bureau of Land Management released the report estimating the other part of America's undiscovered oil riches, the onshore resources.  This added another 53 billion barrels to the national petroleum pot.

Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance:  In response to a Pennsylvania voter's question about elementary school sex education, Obama said:  "Look, I got two daughters — nine years old and six years old.  I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."  This makes two things clear.  First, Senator Obama supports abortion on demand — even "convenience" abortions — for minors, including his own daughters; and second, Obama considers babies a "punishment" he'd rather spare his daughters, even if those daughters have to abort Obama's own unborn grandchildren to avoid that particular "punishment."  That unguardedly candid public statement is political dynamite — or it would be, if the media had reported on it.

NASA measures global temperatures.  NASA is spending around 20 million dollars a year to deploy and monitor 3000 robot buoys around the worlds oceans and the data coming in doesn't support their theory on global warming, in fact it turns out the world has cooled slightly in the last five years.  It's surprising the mainstream media hasn't picked up on this, you would think the fact that the earth is cooling would be front page news.

Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data, A Problem Ignored.  A few months ago, the blogosphere and talk radio were abuzz with the story of how the nation's various weather stations and temperature reading devices have been improperly located or badly constructed and how the data received from these improper devices must be suspected as inaccurate. … Still, even as the blogosphere and talk radio blasted the news, the MSM ignores this explosive story.

Mainstream Media Try to Burn a Book.  "Let's predict a couple of things about this very important book.  First, it will seldom be reviewed.  It will be set up for target practice; that is, second, if it is not altogether ignored, becoming a non-book by the dictates of the heirs of the people who swept its subject into the dustbins of history, viciously spitting on his grave."

Clueless in Obama Nation.  What if a presidential candidate claimed that his view on an issue drew its power from the Sermon on the Mount, which was delivered by no less an authority than Jesus Christ?  What if that view contradicted 2,000 years of church moral teaching?  Wouldn't this be a major news story?  It would if it involved a Republican.  Or even another Democrat.  But when it comes to Barack Obama, the media continue to ignore newsworthy topics and refuse to give the public substantive details about the senator's views on many key issues.

Hothouse Flower.  Somehow those scandals — involving high-profile Chicago figures — were broken by national news organizations like ABC News and the Politico.  In fact, when Obama's connection to Ayers received real scrutiny from the national press, local columnists offered "so what?" reactions, insisting the relationship was "no big deal."

How crypto-Marxism won the Cold War.  Today, for the first time in American history we have two — count 'em, two — hard-core Leftists running for the Democrat Party nomination.  The Left hasn't had this kind of chance for power since Truman defeated Henry Wallace in 1948.  Hillary and Obama are Marx twins who only differ in race and gender.  All the media tell us is how great it is to have a woman and a black man running for president.

The Audacity of Silence About Tony Rezko:  Jury selection began today in Chicago in the trial of Syrian-born businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a major supporter of Barack Obama.  Two days before the 2006 elections in which Democrats won by running against a "culture of corruption," Chicago newspapers revealed that Obama purchased a home that summer for $1.6 million, but only because Rezko's wife bought an adjoining parcel for $625,000 to complete the deal.  Rezko was already under federal investigation for kickback schemes.

ABC Spikes Michelle Obama's Gaffe, Then Declares It Unimportant.  ABC's World News, which on Tuesday [2/19/2008] skipped Michelle Obama's comment that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country," on Wednesday finally got to it, but only minimally as George Stephanopoulos praised her "good damage control" and declared:  "I don't think it's going to be a huge deal."  Hard for it to become "a huge deal" when a broadcast network's most-watched news program doesn't bother to report it.

Michelle Obama:  America is 'Just Downright Mean'.  As NewsBusters previously reported, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't very proud of her country.  Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we're a country that is "just downright mean."

Obama's Imperilled Candidacy:  I found it very interesting to hear [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright explicitly endorse Obama over Hillary in church.  Normally when evangelical preachers cross the political line they get hammered for violating the separation of church and state.  One pastor I know invited a local Republican official to give his personal testimony in church and had to answer to the IRS for it.  How come black churches engage in blatant electioneering, even to the point of busing members to the voting booth, and nobody from the ACLU or the media raises an eyebrow?

Obama's Clintonesque Speech.  Barack Obama came to Philadelphia on March 18 not so much to address his poisonous pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but to talk vaguely of race relations.  The news media swooned. … Newspapers and news networks tried to insist that Obama's speech drew praise "across the political spectrum," but this was nonsense.  Many outlets utterly excluded conservatives and Republicans from their stories.  They were hermetically sealing Obama from criticism.

The Obamas are Just the Ghosts of Clintons Past.  It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons — who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on.  Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar.  Well, thanks for performing your journalistic duty to the American people.  It only took sixteen years for our media to tell us what was clear to the rest of the world before the Clintons ever got elected in 1992.

McCain Wrong to Support Media Shield Law.  President Bush has threatened a veto but the media are counting on Congress to override it.  The bill puts in the hands of federal politicians and judges the ability to define a "legitimate" journalist or blogger who is deserving of federal protection.  As such, it restricts First Amendment rights to a certain group of people currently in favor with federal authorities.

Morning Shows Hit Snooze Button on Court Overturning San Fran Gun Ban.  None of the April 11 editions of the network morning shows:  ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "The Early Show," and NBC's "Today," noted the April 10 unanimous ruling of the California Supreme Court striking down a San Francisco handgun ban.

Will the media ever report on the upcoming Clinton vs. Paul trial?  A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008 in Los Angeles to set a trial date in Paul vs. Clinton.  The court delayed setting a trial date back in February, but a new trial date is expected to be announced three days after the all important Pennsylvania primary. ... How much longer will the media continue to ignore this case?

Everything but the News!  CNN is famous for having a scoop on a breaking story, then, very oddly, the next hour it is discontinued.  This happens on other news sources also.  For example, the first announcement of Ron Brown's plane crash was said to have happened in the Adriatic Sea and that divers were preparing to go down to search for bodies.  The next announcement, an hour or so later, was that the plane had crashed into the mountains!  There was one survivor, a female flight attendant.  She walked to a rescue helicopter but was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.  Was that in the news?

LOST Runs Silent, Runs Deep.  According to Senator Jon Kyl, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the President and an implausible alliance of special interests — from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace.  At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).  Yet, it seems not one of the "establishment" media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.

Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's.  George Bush may be a nemesis of the global green movement and Al Gore its hero, but the president's home is arguably far more environmentally-friendly than the home of the man he defeated in the 2000 election.

Crouching Gore, Hidden Oil Stocks?.  Al Gore's long, former relationship with Occidental Petroleum is well-documented, and all but ignored in the mainstream media.

NY Climate Conference:  Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity.  If you rely solely on the mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City on Tuesday [3/4/2008].  And if you have heard anything — this being primarily a forum of skeptics — it was likely of a last gasp effort by "flat-Earthers" sponsored by right-wingers in the pockets of big-oil to breathe life into their dying warming denial agenda.  Well, having just returned from the 3 day event, I'm happy to report that the struggle against the ravages of warming alarmism is not only alive, but healthier than ever.

Bias by Omission:  Media Silent on Nationwide Pro-Life Protest.  If a coordinated protest took place across the country on a single day you'd think major media outlets would cover it, right?  Thousands of people lining roads in communities from California to Florida should generate national headlines.  Such an event would generate headlines if the protest was against something the liberal media hated — like the war in Iraq.  But because it was a protest against abortion, there was nothing but silence from the national media.

First Amendment Rights for Abortion Protestors?  On December 22nd a 69-year-old pro-life activist who was standing atop his automobile and protesting in front of the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was physically attacked by an abortion supporter and thrown to the ground with enough force to knock him unconscious.  Doctors even worried for a time that the elderly man might perish from the attack.  Over a week after the attack, there aren't any accounts of the attack in the mainstream media.  As I searched for the story, I found only two Internet hits for it.  Why the silence from the MSM?  Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer who attacked an abortion supporter?  The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent.

Make English Official.  One of the most unreported stories of the past month is Democrats in Congress refusing to protect the Salvation Army and other similar organizations from lawsuits for requiring their employees to be able to speak English on the job.  This policy issue is also important politically, and Republicans will benefit politically by doing the right thing.

When Peaceniks Attack, Journalists Snooze.  Have you heard about the plight of 22-year-old McGuire Air Force Base loadmaster Jonathan Schrieken?  Probably not.  The shooting got no mention in The New York Times — not even a squib in a back section.

Hiding Black Interracial Crimes:  I don't know about you, but it was just recently that I heard about a gruesome murder in Knoxville, Tenn., that is far worse than the false charges in the Duke rape case and is at least as horrible, if not more so, than the dragging death of James Byrd.  Unlike the Duke rape case and the Jasper lynching, the national news media's coverage of the interracial Knoxville murders paled in comparison.

The Bad News Is The Good News Is Ignored.  More than a decade ago Ben Wattenberg wrote a book with the marvelous title, The Good News Is The Bad News Is Wrong.  If that book were republished today I would change the title to The Bad News Is The Good News Is Ignored.  It isn't surprising that in the world of media reportage only bad news counts.  The problem with this condition is that it feeds a generally one dimensional view of politics, a misperception of the world that promotes weltschmerz and despair.

Buried news:  Former Soros top aide faces fraud sentence.  I take the fact that Soros was reportedly closely involved with such a crook as another data point on a man who operates in financial secrecy offshore, who has broken the British pound and made billions, and who is spending unlimited sums of money on building propaganda and other political organs in the United States with the apparent intent of swaying elections.  Maybe it is just me, but I think our media ought to be looking into him just a bit.

The Untold Story of Delta Flight 1824:  The passengers aboard Delta Airlines Flight 1824 flying out of Orlando International Airport ... heard the following statement over the intercom as they were preparing to taxi onto the runway on their way to Atlanta, Georgia:  "Ladies and gentlemen, we have been informed that there is a credible security risk with this aircraft and we are returning to the terminal." ... If you rely on official government statements and the major media, the entire incident involving Flight 1824 was benign and was never a security risk.

An Islamist Connection to OKC Bombing.  Ignoring a huge story like this is bad enough.  But at least two establishment outlets — the New York Times and CBS — affirmatively squelched it, albeit in different ways.  The Times shut down an investigation that was hot on the trail of the story.  CBS did not follow up on clear evidence of Middle East involvement.  Why?

Hillary's 'Low Profile' National Security Adviser:  Sandy Berger.  It's gotten very little mainstream media coverage (surprise!) but Hillary Clinton's national security adviser is none other than Sandy "Docs In My Socks" Berger, who pleaded guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents related to the Clinton administration's anti-terror efforts, immediately before Bill Clinton's testimony to the 9/11 commission.

It's the James Byrd case with the colors reversed -- so it's not news.
 Murder in black and white.  This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil.  It is also a case study in journalistic malpractice.  Unless you tune in to the local Knoxville news, you are most likely hearing about this heinous crime for the first time — even though it took place last January.  True, there are some 17,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly far more barbaric, far more monstrous than most.

Knoxville Horror:  Trial Dates Set; MSM "Discovers" the Case.  For months the mainstream media has ignored the kidnapping, gang-rape, and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.  The MSM is finally starting, ever so modestly, to report on Tennessee's Knoxville Horror, even as far from the crime scene as Denver!

What is a hate crime?  What happened to Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a young Knoxville couple out on an ordinary Saturday night date, was undeniably brutal.  The two were carjacked, kidnapped, raped and finally murdered during an ordeal of unimaginable terror in January.

SPJ Suggests 'Omitting Race' in Crime Reporting.  Society of Professional Journalists has decided that it is best to leave a suspect's race out of crime reporting except for "extraordinary" reasons.  Of course, to the SPJ, "good reporting" means race info in a story about crime isn't "useful to people in the community" even if the race of a suspect is part of a police report apparently.  Despite their claim that they aren't toeing the PC line, their explanation is filled with just the sort of reasoning based on PC thinking — one of which is that all whites are racists.

The Race for the American Mind:  Forty-three years ago it was a different world.  Ted Kennedy had co-authored the "Immigration Reform Act of 1965," which created a situation wherein 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia.  He took to the Senate floor, claimed his brainchild wouldn't change the demographic composition of the nation and passed the culture-rending bill under the cover of darkness.  This darkness was not absence of light but that of truth; it was a media blackout.  With no Internet and little talk radio, mainstream journalists had a monopoly over the hearts and minds of America.  And they knew best.

Unfavorable drug studies don't get into print:  report.  Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug being tested did not work, researchers reported on Wednesday [1/16/2008].  In some of the studies that are published, unfavorable results have been recast to make the medicine appear more effective than it really is, said the research team led by Erick Turner of the Oregon Health & Science University.

U.S. media lags in covering Latin America.  If you think that Latin America is getting a short shrift in the U.S. media, you are right:  a new study shows that the percentage of news from the region in mainstream U.S. media is pathetic.

The Clintons' Chop Suey Connection.  I hope you followed the news with the utmost care last week.  A stupendous story peeked into the media, grew to adulthood in no time, and vanished.  The news story began with the Wall Street Journal's report that a major donor to the Clinton presidential campaign, Hong Kong-born Norman Hsu, appeared to have "bundled" vast amounts of money into donations to Democrats.  Particularly blessed was the Clinton presidential campaign.

Did someone mention Norman Hsu?

Crowd attacks, kills man at Juneteenth festival.  An angry crowd beat a man to death after a vehicle he was riding in struck and injured a young girl, police said Wednesday.  Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night.

The Editor says...
 Do you notice anything missing from this report?  Juneteenth celebrations are attended almost exclusively by blacks.  I wasn't there, but I'm guessing this is the story of a black lynch mob, with that one little detail omitted.

Crowd kills passenger of car that struck child.  A crowd of Juneteenth partyers outside an East Austin housing project turned violent with several beating a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck a small child. … "It's sad for the city," said Commander Harold Piatt, who leads the Austin Police Department's homicide division. … "It's not a hate crime," he said.  "It's not racially motivated in any way.  The assault has nothing to do with the (city-sponsored) Juneteenth celebration."

The Editor continues...
 The reporter describes a crowd of Juneteenth partyers at the beginning of the story, but the police say it had nothing to do with Juneteenth.  There is a new ingredient here that was missing from other news stories about this case — it was a crowd "outside an East Austin housing project", which further guarantees that the perpetrators were black, yet the word "black" is not in the text of the story.  I'm just saying that if the colors were reversed, the news media would still be talking about a lynch mob and a hate crime.  As it is, the story disappeared within two weeks.

Reid labels military leader 'incompetent'.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.  Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.

The Liberal Media has Voted Early … Again!.  The secular press has largely been silent on this controversial bill.  The media's silence and the unprecedented speed of this legislation are not accidental.  Congress has put this bill on a fast track to be passed just one month after its proposal.

Will Obama go up in smoke?  In case you haven't heard — and many apparently still haven't — Barack Obama smokes.  Despite the crush of media attention enveloping him, few have spent much time discussing his nicotine habit, much less asking the obvious question:  In an era of unprecedented hostility toward tobacco users, can a cigarette smoker win a presidential election?

[Wait a minute... Aren't Obama's supporters the very same left-wing Democrats who have campaigned to outlaw smoking in public places?]

Now they tell us?  Raymond Hernandez of the New York Times informs the world that Hillary Clinton has long enjoyed the services of a chief aide, someone who plays an absolutely key role on her life, whose existence has received approximately zero media attention until now. … If anyone ever doubted that Hillary's public persona is a completely manufactured product, bearing only tangential relationship to the reality of the woman, the public oblivion of Patti Solis Doyle should provide evidence of the divergence between image and reality in the case of Hillary.

KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says.  In his book, which came out this week, [Paul] Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.

Networks Spike Revelations About Berger's Pilfering of Secret Papers.  Despite the colorful details about how Sandy Berger cut the documents, about the Clinton administration's reaction to terrorist threats in 1999, into small pieces, the broadcast networks weren't interested Thursday morning or evening [12/21/2006] even though the report discredits Berger's claims he simply accidentally mishandled the documents.

Why Does Trousergate Go Ignored?  A House Oversight Committee report details the real and potential damage to national security of Sandy Berger's theft and destruction of classified documents.  And we may never know what was in them.  The report released this week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows, as ranking Republican member Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia put it, how former Clinton National Security Adviser Berger "compromised national security much more than originally disclosed."

The Secret Sandy Risked His All For:  If not the most skillful of embezzlers, Samuel 'Sandy' Berger is a far more formidable character than the media would have us believe.  When he made his now storied sorties into the National Archives, he risked his career and his reputation in so doing, and he knew it.  Rest assured, he would not have done so were the secrets to be preserved not worth the risk of pilfering them.  True to form, the major media refuse to even ask the most fundamental question:  just what secrets would justify so much personal exposure.

It's about time Americans found out what Sandy Berger stuffed in his pants.  The theft and destruction of classified national security documents by former National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a topic that never received the attention it should have. … My outrage, though, comes from the actual theft of the documents, rather than the way the media largely ignored it.

Media Silence Surrounding Building 7:  The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the afternoon of September 11th was reported as if it were an insignificant footnote.  The television networks played video of the jets impacting the Twin Towers hundreds of times.  But most people never saw video of Building 7's collapse.

For Illegal Aliens, Crime Pays — and So Do We.  Except for when an illegal alien does something horrific … we rarely hear that these crimes are committed specifically by illegals.  This is due to two factors:  first, illegal aliens are often silent on family violence and afraid to report crime within their communities.  And second, the mainstream media seem to go out of their way not to inform us, as they rarely make any distinction between crimes committed by US citizen perpetrators or those committed by illegal alien perpetrators, and this is an egregious violation of the press's mandate.

Kidnap gangs target 'white gold'.  In Nigeria's oil-rich south, foreign workers are known as "white gold" among the gangs who kidnap them for ransom.  "Ah, the whites are coming," chuckled one young gang member as a heavily-guarded oil company convoy sped through Port Harcourt, sirens blaring.  "It's like ice cream vans in your country."  Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of crude oil, or "black gold".  But the country is in the grip of a kidnapping epidemic….

The Editor says...
 If the colors were reversed, this would be front-page news.

Dreadful Democratic manners.  I wonder how the national press would have responded to a Republican being publicly ugly to, say, Bill Clinton, at a White House Christmas reception.  I don't wonder about that at all.  He would have been held up as an example of everything which is wrong with the spiteful GOP.

Women in the Clinton era:  Abuse, intimidation and smears.  Here is Bill Clinton's legacy of mistreatment of women.  The common threads are that, almost to a woman:  (1) they had some vulnerability that he could exploit.  (2) they were victims of a smear campaign, and (3) there is an eerie similarity to the stories they tell of intimidation, threats, and burglaries of odd items, such as photographs and tapes.

Black Gangs Terrorize D.C..  Because the Washington Post wants to obscure the basic reality of the situation, we believe that visitors to the nation's capital should be warned that there is a crime emergency in effect, sparked by a sharp increase in homicides, and they are potential victims.  The fact is that white tourists are being injured and killed by roving black male gangs, who are even showing up in exclusive areas such as Georgetown where some rich reporters live behind iron gates.  The Post, however, has a policy of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the real nature of the problem.

Panel:  Leaked Gingrich call broke rules.  Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated ethics standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving Republican leaders a decade ago, the House ethics committee said Monday [12/11/2006].  McDermott, who at the time was the panel's senior Democrat, failed to meet his obligations as a committee leader, said a report released two days after Congress adjourned for the year.  The panel took no action other than the report.

Crime Cover-Up in D.C.:  There is terrorism in Baghdad but a criminal gang problem has also been plaguing our nation's capital.  In an officially declared "crime emergency," black criminals had been robbing, assaulting, and even raping tourists in the National Mall area, where the Washington Monument and the World War II and Lincoln Memorials stand.  This is an area that had been considered safe and "tourist-friendly."  Three young black men were arrested for these crimes, but you could search in vain in the local media for any reference to their skin color. Instead, they were described as "D.C. youths" or just "five people."

The arrogance of (Democrat) power.  Carole Migden is one of the most powerful people in California, and she knows it.  The lesbian activist (author of the state's original domestic partners act, "married" in a faux ceremony conducted by SF mayor Gavin Newsom) is chair of the majority Democrat caucus in the State Senate, and has held a series of extremely powerful posts in a state government that spends $100 billion a year with little press scrutiny.

Trashing privacy:  Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer.  At this point, you probably wonder why you haven't read about this.  Frankly, there's not much reason you would have, unless you read some relatively obscure publications that focus mostly on technology issues.  Another reason you wouldn't likely have heard of it is, of course, that most major media outlets ignored the issue entirely….

Intense chill of coming week threatens to eclipse Feb. 3-9 cold spell 112 years ago.  Chicago is headed into a deep freeze likely to take on, if not surpass, a series of long-time late-winter cold weather benchmarks.  An average of each day's temperatures over the coming 7 days may well finish colder than any Feb. 3-9 period on record since 1871 here.

Pension Looters for the Left?  Imagine the following scenario:  during the height of election season, a high-placed Republican donor is discovered to have looted millions of dollars from the retirement funds of individuals and companies he manages, and then contributes more than $70,000 to his state GOP party.

Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites.  China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday [9/25/2006]. … Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public.

The Princeton Hate Crime That Wasn't :  The Jena 6 case exploded overnight when the Media imagined they had a "race hate" issue on their hands.  They did the same with the Duke Rape case.  Both cases were later proven not to be a case of a "hate crime" at all and, in the end, weren't even real crimes. … Contrast that coverage with a reported crime that occurred near Princeton University that perfectly fits the definition of a "hate crime" and we found a media that stayed mum not reporting a thing about it.  The reason, of course, is because this victim was a conservative, Christian attacked because he was a conservative Christian — the news media obviously didn't feel there was anything to talk about.

The Democrats' Culture of Corruption:  Did you notice the stories about Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky's husband being sentenced to prison for a check-kiting scheme involving millions of dollars?  Probably not.  It got little attention.

Most Jews ever set to enter Congress.  A record number of Jewish members will enter Congress Thursday, but more remarkable are the unparalleled positions of power they will hold on committees related to Israel, many local Jewish activists say.  Six new Jewish legislators will be joining 37 familiar faces as the 110th Congress convenes, making the total the highest-ever, according to Doug Bloomfield, a former legislative director for AIPAC.

The Editor says...
 The posting of the article above has been perceived by some people as evidence that this web site is run by "flaming nutballs."  But this article appeared in the Jerusalem Post, and the author was bragging, not complaining.  The article does not denigrate the members of Congress who happen to be Jewish, nor was that the intent of posting it here.  It is just another example of a story that the U.S. media omit -- in this case for the sake of political correctness.  The media, by and large, have also ignored the record number of Muslims in Congress:  two.

A $40 billion scandal:  As reporter Lester Holt of NBC's "Today" put it in a Jan. 1 story, "Enron has been the poster child, if you will, of corporate scandals."  It isn't the only one, though.  There's $40 billion scandal with most of the same elements — even connection to prominent politicians.  Just don't expect to see much about it on TV.  After all, the top people involved here are Democrats.

Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter.  Former President Jimmy Carter's center in Atlanta received more than $1 million from the family of Osama bin Laden, according to an investigative report.

The Homeland Security Rackets:  On April 10th an American-registered DC9 was caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S., the Mexican military announced, at an airport in Ciudad del Carmen.  In the more than two months since, the incident has slipped into a black hole.

Carnival puts the bite on Hillary's brother.  A bankruptcy trustee for a carnival company whose owners received a pardon from President Clinton is seeking to garnish the bank accounts of Mr. Clinton's brother-in-law to recoup more than $100,000 in loans.  Anthony D. Rodham, one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's two brothers, got the loans from United Shows of America Inc. after its owners obtained the presidential pardon in March 2000 over the objections of the Justice Department.

Hillary's brother barred from bank account.  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Anthony D. Rodham has been barred from accessing his bank account while a bankruptcy trustee demands that he repay more than $100,000 in loans from a carnival company whose founder was pardoned by President Clinton, filings in federal bankruptcy court in Alexandria show.

Why isn't this newsworthy?  Are American and European reporters in Iran covering today's protests at all?  If not, why not?  Thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi for sending these photos of protesting Iranian workers and students.

Safe at Any Speed.  It's another summer weekend, when millions of families pack up the minivan or SUV and hit the road.  So this is also an apt moment to trumpet some good, and underreported, news:  Driving on the highways is safer today than ever before.

55 Guardsmen Decrease Mexican Border Infiltration 21% in 10 Days.  That pretty much summarizes what was undoubtedly the most important news story of the last week, a report that was all but buried by the mainstream media. … The shocking drop-off in human smuggling is attributed to one factor:  the arrival of the National Guard on the border.

The census has grown beyond its bounds.  While the Patriot Act and National Security Agency wiretapping have received enormous attention and criticism from the mainstream media, another federal agency has been quietly gathering far more personal information about U.S. residents than those laws ever can.  And this unreported project affects thousands more people.  Our inquisitive federal government has been demanding that selected U.S. residents answer 73 nosy questions.  They are threatened with a fine of $5,000 for failure to respond.

[The invasive and unreasonable nosy questions on the census started under President Clinton.  So that's why we voted for a guy who said he would "bring strong conservative leadership to the White House."  Sounds like the census is getting more intrusive, not less.]

Clinton cover-ups:  Lost in the tumult over Islamic port deals and Katrina video capers is the recently released — and willfully ignored — Barrett Report.  David Barrett, you'll recall, is the independent counsel appointed in 1995 to investigate allegations of impropriety against President Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.

More information about the Barrett Report can be found here.

Hillary Clinton and the sweatshop tycoon of Saipan.  It turns out that Sen. Clinton has some big fans in Saipan.  And most of them are in the family of one Willie Tan. … You might not have heard of Willie Tan, but he is quite well-known in the Northern Marianas as a garment-industry tycoon.  Sometimes he's also described as a sweatshop operator.

Top Stars Donated to Sen. Hillary Clinton.  Clinton has spent millions on direct mailings to prospective donors.  In the most recent three-month period, she spent more than $200,000 on postage alone.  The campaign paid nearly $650,000 to a company that handles direct mail business.

Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending.  Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing. … In an interview Thursday [5/25/2006] in his Capitol office, Reid defended his decisions to accept the tickets and to take several actions benefiting former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's clients and partners as they donated to him.

Update:
 Reid says he won't accept free tickets.  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid learned that what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas after all.

Oklahoma bomber had jihad material.  An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.

Media Myths of Katrina:  It turns out that much of what we know to be true isn't exactly true.  Popular Mechanics magazine has published a much overlooked story, The Lessons of Katrina, in its March issue.  It got some attention at the time in the blogs and on certain online publications. But very little, if any, attention has been devoted to it in the mainstream media.

Did someone mention Hurricane Katrina?

Forcibly Disarming Law-Abiding Americans during Disaster:  It Can Happen to You.  This exact scenario unfolded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, unbeknownst to most people across the country.  New Orleans and other government officials literally ordered reluctant law enforcement officers to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens at gunpoint.  In other words, at the very moment when Second Amendment rights mattered most, when innocent civilians needed firearms for self-protection, government forcibly confiscated them.

AP's Betty Friedan Obituary Whitewashes Her Known Communist Roots.  The trouble is, the still widely-accepted accounts of Betty Friedan's early years have been shown to be totally, if you excuse the term, divorced from reality.  The only hint that Italie gives of Friedan's true past is the description of her as a "labor reporter" during roughly the mid-1940s.  There's much more to Betty Friedan's early years than Ms. Italie lets on.

Calling Jimmy Carter:  Does a woman who accepts America's money to build democracy deserve 16 years in prison?  Only to a brutal dictator.  But that doesn't excuse Congress, NOW and Jimmy Carter for having nothing to say.  Right under the news radar, a politicized court is about to throw Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado into prison for "treason."  Her so-called crime:  Accepting a $54,000 grant from U.S. Congress' National Endowment for Democracy.

Appeals Court:  Rep. McDermott Violated the Law in Leaking Taped Call.  A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday [3/28/2006] that Rep. Jim McDermott violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago.

NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis.  Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night [2/1/2006], equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens."

Whitewashing a Black Leader:  Isn't it newsworthy when the leader of a venerable organization like the NAACP engages in such over-the-top, crackpot rhetoric?

Subordinating the truth:  As I was watching President Bush's latest news conference, I was again struck by the thought of how different the news climate and public mood would be if the mainstream media (MSM) were truly as unbiased as they pretend to be.

All quiet on Hillary's plantation.  If you think the networks were asleep at the switch, consider how the print media covered this brazen appeal to racial tensions.  Quite simply, they just didn't want to mention the "plantation" or "worst president in history" remarks.  USA Today skipped it.  The Los Angeles Times skipped it for three days before allowing one article, despite mentioning Pat Robertson's remarks on Ariel Sharon's stroke in stories on three different days. … Time and Newsweek just printed the quote, and U.S. News didn't even do that.

Walter Cronkite — world federalist.  The man once described as the "most trusted in America" has come out firmly, boldly, explicitly — and stupidly — for the formulation of a global government at the expense of U.S. national sovereignty.  And, somehow, Walter Cronkite did this at the United Nations [in October, 1999] in near total media blackout.

The Left's privacy hypocrites.  According to the McCurtain Daily Gazette, in the days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. government used a spy satellite to gather intelligence on a white separatist compound in Oklahoma. … Investigators zeroed in on the compound in nearby Elohim City. … Photoreconnaissance satellites that gather intelligence from space usually target hostile governments and foreign terrorists.  "The domestic use of a military satellite for domestic spying is a violation of DoD and CIA regulations regarding the proper use of top-secret national security satellites," the Gazette reported.  But with the exception of a brief Associated Press recap, the story received absolutely no mainstream-media attention.

If you're interested, I have assembled a whole page about the Oklahoma City Bombing.

The Globalization Of Freedom.  With the media diet of genocide, civil war and terrorist chaos, you might be surprised to learn the world is freer than ever — and that the trend isn't new.  Indeed, since Ronald Reagan entered office in 1980, the world has gone from being a place largely hostile to political, personal and economic freedom to one now overwhelmingly free or at least "partly" free.

Jesse Jackson to Face Civil Trial on January 17 for Assault and Civil Rights Violations.  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes corruption, today [1/13/2006] announced it has received confirmation from the Los Angeles County Superior Court that Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505) will go to trial as scheduled on January 17, 2006.

The mainstream media discover illegal immigration.  The other evening, … my husband made a rather astute observation:  "Why is it that all the news shows are suddenly doing 24/7 analysis of the immigration problem?  You think they're trying to help the Democrats?"  He had a point.  Problems stemming from illegal immigration have provoked strong feelings among voters for years without sparking much more than an NPR/La Raza lovefest.

Fence fiasco:  Or Feliz año nuevo.  The decline of American sovereignty would typically be a big story in any year, but with all the news coming out of Hollywood this year, maybe it was a bit overshadowed by more significant events.  I mean, how can the virtual surrender of a 231-year-old nation to the Pollyanna-ish forces of political correctness possibly compete with the dramatic real-life struggles of Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, and the nation's hot new nymphet, Britney's baby sister, Jamie Lynn Spears?

The Scandal that Could Sink Hillary:  Virtually every detail of alleged [Tom] DeLay transgressions gets reported and in very great detail.  But scant coverage has been given to equally serious allegations against the junior senator from New York.

Hillary gets a pass while DeLay is assailed.  What's that?  You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy?  No surprise there.  Like I said, she's a Democrat.  So her story has been buried or ignored by the big media bosses.

Press Ignores Vigil for Grandmother Murdered by Homosexual Man.  The national and local press ignored a pro-family vigil … in Chicago on behalf of Mary Stachowicz, the grandmother who was murdered three years ago after sharing her faith with a homosexual tenant.

Media Ignore Homosexual Murder-Rape Trial:  Family groups have complained that the news media have demonstrated a pro-homosexual bias in their reluctance to cover the case.

Horrible coverage of a horrible murder:  The horrible torture-murder of a 13-year old boy by a pair of gays has been suppressed by the major media, partly because many people fear the power of the homosexual movement.  The murder of a gay in Wyoming three years ago, in contrast, was widely covered.  A New York Times reporter says that most of those deciding what the Times will cover are themselves gays.  The public isn't getting the news it deserves.

Selective reporting and the state of the nation.

Fox anchor goes unpunished:  After he was arrested for hitting a woman with a car, the charges were dropped.  The story, while reported briefly by local publications and wire reports, quickly fell off the media's radar.

Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London.  Jewish terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown.  The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel.  Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assassinations that would "beat the dog in his own kennel".

The Democrats go dumpster diving.  Have you heard about what New York Sen. Charles Schumer's meddling minions tried to do here in my home state of Maryland to embarrass a Republican opponent?  Don't bother with The New York Times if you want details.  Since revelations of the scandal first broke a week ago on the national wires and in the rest of the New York media, the Times has failed to print a single word about the Dems' invasive — and obviously illegal — dumpster diving.

The news from Iraq that's not fit to print:  What was the most important news out of Iraq last week?  That depends on what you consider "important."

All the news that's fit to omit:  When you read The New York Times (if you still bother to read it), always ask:  What is the Times NOT telling me?  The answers are invariably more compelling — and newsworthy — than what the paper actually deems "fit to print."

Terri's grave:  "I kept my promise".  Michael Schiavo had a grave marker placed yesterday [6/20/2005] on the cremated remains of his wife Terri Schiavo that lists her death as Feb. 25, 1990 — more than 15 years before she died of court-ordered dehydration.

The worst bill you have never heard of.  [Hawaii's two senators apparently intend to create] a race-based and racially separate government for Native Hawaiians.  Under S. 147 Native Hawaiians would be under the federal Indian law system and would be designated as a "tribe."  This new race-based government would have jurisdiction over 20 percent of Hawaii's citizens as well as 400,000 citizens nationwide.  This would be the first time in our nation's history that we have created an extra-constitutional race-based government out of a group of American citizens.

Mailboxes Vanish:  If you've noticed that mailboxes seem harder to find than ever, it's true:  The government has removed almost 7,000 of them since September 11.

The Reporters Who Didn't Bark.  There's a reason that the media hasn't asked national Democrats what they think about California's same-sex marriage bill.  The media knows this is an issue of intense interest across the political spectrum.  The mainstream media also knows that every single time the question of same-sex marriage has been submitted directly to the voters, it has been overwhelming rejected.

Under the radar:  Our beloved mainstream media are complaining that President Bush is spending too much time at the "Western White House" in Crawford, Texas.  Their stories about his "vacation" make it seem as if he's not doing a whole lot.  But a closer look reveals that the president is working hard — the Fourth Estate just doesn't bother to cover what he's really doing.

Beware of Strange Men With Rocket Launchers.  Many readers have e-mailed me about a recent report floating on the Internet that reveals military concerns about a suspicious trio of Middle Eastern men who apparently pointed a rocket launcher at low-flying aircraft near Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma earlier this month.  It's authentic.

Media Agrees with Wilson:  2+2=5.  The [mainstream news media] are leaving out relevant facts, relevant information, ignoring other things — like the Senate intelligence committee testimony and report on Joe Wilson — the fact that they're leaving out the fact that the CIA unveiled Valerie Plame's identity a year or two before Robert Novak ever did.

Bush Made Better Grades in College than Kerry.  Why didn't Kerry release his records during the campaign?  After all, his refusal seemed like a cover-up.  Now we know.  Kerry's military records also include his college grades.  (The New Yorker printed Bush's grades in 1999, but Kerry consistently refused to release his.)  It turns out that "dummy" and fellow Yalie George W. Bush made better grades than did brainy, intellectual John Kerry.

The Howard Dean blackout:  If Howard Dean thought it would be a great idea to heighten his profile by becoming chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he was making a big mistake.  Since he was elected to the top party spot on Feb. 12, Democrats have been hiding him like the Clinton staff hid mistresses.  They've had big help from a national media blackout.

First no more air maps, next no more road maps?  The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has proposed to withdraw all aeronautical data and products from public distribution.

FEC Rules Against DNC/Jesse Jackson.  The Federal Election Commission announced [May 26, 2005] that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Democratic National Committee have been found guilty of violating federal election law.

Networks Were Silent On FCC Story.  A Nexis news database search showed that as of May 20, less than two weeks prior to the vote, neither Viacom-owned CBS or GE-owned NBC had said anything in their respective evening newscasts about the rules changes, changes for which both companies had been vigorously and expensively lobbying Congress and the FCC.

Oiling the Green Political Machine.  Did taxpayers unknowingly help fund the 2004 election campaign to unseat President Bush?  Ignored by the media, a Senate probe has found grants from the Environmental Protection Agency financing a host of anti-Bush political lobbies and activist groups.

Ignoring the Pro-Pope Polls of Catholics:  ABC and The Washington Post downplayed their finding that 81 percent of U.S. Catholics approve of the selection of Pope Benedict XVI, and the other networks just ignored it.

Omaha stakes:  Last Thursday [5/12/2005], a federal judge in Omaha overturned Nebraska's constitutional amendment that banned same-sex "marriage."  And the press reaction to the story was muted.  Why?  Because this decision proves that we and other critics of the courts and advocates for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex "marriage" have been right all along.

Fannie Mae's bailout tab:  Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage association, has been battling a mounting scandal since last year.  It has accounting errors of about $11 billion.  [That's Enron × 19.]  This is news — $30 billion worth of news — but only print reporters are out there covering it regularly.  TV news is out to lunch.

George Soros and the Press:  "The media consistently ignore the fact that this so-called 'philanthropist' has had several brushes with the law," including a conviction in France for insider trading.  On March 24, that insider trading conviction was upheld. … This is the perfect opportunity for our media to finally start examining this billionaire's business and financial connections.  Remember this is the man who tried to buy the White House for John Kerry.

Whistleblower on FBI vindicated.  Accusations by an FBI contract linguist fired after complaining about suspected security breaches and misconduct in the bureau's post-September 11 foreign language translation program "had some basis in fact" and are supported by documents and other witnesses, a report said yesterday [1/14/2005].  The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, in an unclassified summary of a secret, 100-page report issued in July, said the FBI should have "more thoroughly" investigated accusations by the linguist, Sibel Edmonds.

ACLU supports Sibel Edmonds in FBI case.  As a language specialist for the FBI, Edmonds was responsible for translating potential terrorist documents from Turkish to English.  She reported two categories of problems within the FBI, including what she said was incompetence and the more serious problem of intentional mistranslations.

FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Defies Gag Order.  Sibel Edmonds has spent the past five years trying to tell her story — one where corrupt U.S. government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets — but wasn't able to because the Department of Justice has a gag order against her.  When Edmonds brought her case to court, the DOJ again interfered, allowing only officials with top-secret security clearances to attend hearings.

Where was Kofi?  Our media have wanted to know why President Bush was allegedly too slow in publicly responding to the tidal wave disaster.  But where was Kofi?  James Langton of the London Telegraph reports, "UN officials went to great lengths to conceal the whereabouts of Kofi Annan, the organisation's general secretary, who was on holiday when the tsunami struck and did not surface in New York until Thursday [1/27/2005].  In fact, it was revealed that, Mr Annan spent Christmas at the holiday home of James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank and a critic of the Bush administration, who owns a 160-acre ranch in the resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Only a handful of Mr Annan's most trusted advisers were allowed to know his location.

School Violence Is Under-Reported.  School violence, although generally decreasing in the United States, is under-reported in many schools, according to a new report from the Reason Foundation.  School crime data are largely unavailable and incidences of violence often downplayed.

GI Jane at War:  The True Story of Women in Combat.  Women soldiers are being wounded and dying in record-breaking numbers.  Practically no one is talking about it — not the media and not even Congress.

Unilateral self-flagellation:  Upon arrival at Camp Delta [Guantanamo Bay], detainees are issued a blanket, a sheet, two orange jump suits, flip-flops, a foam sleeping pad, two bath towels, a washcloth, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, a prayer rug and a Koran.  They are allowed two 15-minute showers per week; they get recreation time and three culturally sensitive meals per day.  Schedules are respectful of Islamic traditions, prayer calls are broadcast five times a day, and arrows painted on the floors point to Mecca.  Their regular quarters include a flushing toilet, running water and an off-the-floor bed.  Detainees who ask for them are provided with soccer balls, playing cards, chessboards and paperback books.  All of this courtesy of the American taxpayers the detainees have sworn to kill.

Air Pollution Cut in Half, EPA Announces.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has achieved a major milestone in its 34-year battle against air pollution.  As Administrator Michael Leavitt announced on September 22 [2004], "emissions have been cut by more than half (51 percent) since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970."  Unfortunately, recent polls show the public is unaware that things have improved at all.

A 55-point chasm in military support for Kerry and Bush.  October 11 editions of Military Times publications (Navy Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Air Force Times) carried an astounding story not likely to get much coverage in the establishment press.  Bush leads Democratic Sen. John Kerry 73 percent to 18 percent in the voluntary survey of 4,165 active-duty, National Guard, and reserve subscribers.

Kerry's Korea-gate mess:  On the one hand we have a major television network racing to broadcast news about 30-year-old "documents" — now proven to be fraudulent — all in an effort to discredit President Bush.  On the other hand we virtually have all of the networks ignoring a real, fresh-as-today, scandal involving the Kerry campaign's fund-raising.  The Associated Press reported this past week that a South Korean national who met with John Kerry's fund-raisers and discussed setting up a new political group for Korean-Americans was actually an intelligence agent for South Korea.

A Free Pass for "21st Century Lenin".  The major media are desperate to avoid scrutiny of how or where leftist billionaire George Soros is getting the tens of millions of dollars that he is using to finance anti-Bush advertising campaigns and pro-Democratic Party political efforts before the November 2 election.

Free Pass.  Amid the uproar over the ads run by the "Section 527" political committee known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Establishment media have remained eerily silent about the massive union-funded 527s that are spending exponentially more resources.

A Very Kerry Christmas:  Some people wondered how long the major media would be willing to ignore the Christmas-in-Cambodia story.  Well, the answer is in:  at least 10 or 11 days.  I first noticed the story August 6...  Soon it was all over the Internet, the conservative press, talk radio, and some cable shows.  But the networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other major media didn't run the story.  Some papers, like the Kansas City Star, got protests from readers on what appeared to be a news blackout.

How Arafat's gunmen suppress the news:  On Sept. 11, 2001, Americans were shocked by footage of Palestinians dancing in the streets to celebrate the terrorist attacks on the United States.  But those scenes disappeared from the airwaves soon after — not because they weren't newsworthy, but because the Palestinian Authority gave orders to suppress them.

 Editor's Note:   You have to wonder... what else is not being reported?

Hazel O'Leary, Clinton's Energy Secretary, Removed From Plane.  Nine days after being named president of Fisk University, Hazel O'Leary found herself being questioned by the FBI after being escorted off a commercial airplane.  O'Leary disputes a report that she was loud and abusive.

The Long Trail of Sibel Edmonds at the FBI:  Sibel Edmonds [was an] FBI translator who was fired for reporting on Bureau corruption in the area of handling investigations into terrorism.  Edmonds had run into some very dark situations where FBI terror probes had been shelved, scuttled, erased, and put into the freezer.  There were major indications that Edmonds, in her FBI job, had come up against a pervasive culture of CYA practices, aimed at shielding and protecting FBI employees after very serious screw-ups had occurred.

Just what we need...
US Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims.  The United States has agreed to grant citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania, according to a Russian newspaper, Novie Izvestia.  It added that the Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia.

Second Muslim Elected To Congress.  Democrat Andre Carson won't have much time to bask in his special election victory.  In just eight weeks, he faces another vote for the same congressional seat.  Carson, who on Tuesday [3/11/2008] won the office formerly held by his late grandmother and became the second Muslim ever elected to Congress, will face seven challengers in the May 6 Democratic primary for a full two-year term.

PATRIOT Act Sneak Attack II:  As a result of many protests from US citizens, the Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on the bill, HR 3179, the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003, and instead a subcommittee held a public hearing on May 18.  But you would never know that the hearing occurred if you read the American press or watch or listen to US electronic news media.  A major expansion of one of the most controversial laws ever adopted in the US was ignored by most of the media.

Up in smoke stacks:  The much-maligned factory sector is booming.  Not rising.  Not improving.  Booming.  The industrial sector is so strong that the speed of supplier deliveries has hit its highest level since April, 1979.

Liberal media?  I'm shocked!  A new survey by the Pew Research Center says that just 7 percent of journalists and news executives call themselves conservative, compared with 33 percent of the general public.  The self-identified liberals (34 percent) are five times more common as conservatives in the news business.  As you might imagine, this got very little play in the mainstream media.

Deliver us from Democrats:  Sean Hannity's latest book, "Deliver Us From Evil," is even better than his last.  It hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list the week it came out and stayed there for at least five weeks.  [Yet] not a single major mainstream newspaper has reviewed it.

The Ugly Truth:  Exsanguination or draining of blood?  A federal judge is demanding that abortion-industry witnesses speak in plain English as he considers one of three challenges to a federal law banning partial-birth abortions.  But despite all the sensational testimony and courtroom drama, the major news media are paying no attention.

A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered:  CNN recently reported that "the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victim's family alleges was murdered at the hands of the government."

 Editor's Note:   After doing a little searching on the internet for the name of the victim in this case, it appears that he might have been the elusive John Doe #2 in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.

Thirty Oklahoma City Bombing Questions That Demand an Answer:  Why has the media consistently suppressed and refused to report any information or evidence which indicates that, at the very least and regardless of who was responsible, there was Federal foreknowledge that the [Oklahoma City] bombing would take place?


USS Liberty subsection:

The USS Liberty: America's Most Shameful Secret.  The US government's long, disgraceful cover-up of the premeditated attack on Liberty has now burst into the open and demands full-scale investigation.  After 34 years, the voices of Liberty's dead and wounded seamen must finally be heard.

USS Liberty Court of Inquiry:  The USS Liberty, a neutral ship in international waters, was attacked without warning by air and naval forces of the state of Israel on June 8, 1967.  USS Liberty had not engaged in any provocative conduct, nor was she any kind of obvious threat to other ships or aircraft in the area.

Declaration of Ward Boston, Jr., Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.).  It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received first hand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate, and could not possibly have been an accident.  I am certain that the Israeli pilots that undertook the attack, as well as their superiors, who had ordered the attack, were well aware that the ship was American.

Why did Israel attack USS Liberty?  For former US seaman Gary Brummett, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war has stirred painful memories.  As a 21-year-old third class petty officer, Mr Brummett was serving on board the USS Liberty off the coast of Egypt on 8 June, when, without warning, the vessel came under fire, first from fighter planes, then torpedo boats.  The attack, which lasted at least 40 minutes, resulted in the deaths of 34 of Mr Brummett's fellow crewmen, at least 170 injured and catastrophic damage to the ship.

New revelations in attack on American spy ship.  For [Bryce] Lockwood and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity:  that Israel would attack an important ally, then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport that was half its size and had a dissimilar profile.  And they're also incredulous that, for years, their own government would reject their calls for a thorough investigation.

NSA's USS Liberty Page.  "The attack on the USS Liberty, like others in our nation's history, has become the center of considerable controversy and debate.  It is not NSA's intention to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions, many of which can be drawn from a thorough review of this material.  Instead, through these public releases, we intend to make as much information as possible available for the many scholars, historians, academia, and members of the general public who find interest in analyzing the information and forming their own conclusions."


Do Orwell-ocrats Own 9-11?  The media has largely succeeded into putting America to sleep with hypnosis and by blacking out information that would shock the nation out of lethargy.  The Left is yet again trying to steal our political show by misdirecting our attention and by controlling what Americans are permitted to see.

CNN Has Two Black Eyes.  CNN twice scheduled a program to examine evidence that TWA flight 800 was shot down by missiles.  Twice they cancelled their guest, once giving his spot to one of the government's chiefs of the cover-up.  Thanks to the Internet, many people knew of the evidence and wanted to see the CNN program.  They now know that CNN is not concerned to provide hard-hitting news.

Islam and Slavery:  The Concealed Truth.  To this day the only places in the world where one can buy a slave for ready cash are Moslem countries.  The slaves in question are almost invariably black, and the countries in question are primarily Mauritania and Sudan.

Sudan On The Brink:  It just shows what is wrong with our media.  The front pages of most newspapers last week carried a story about a horrific plane crash in the Sudan that cost 100 lives.  While this tragedy was certainly newsworthy, hardly a single media outlet has been covering the real story in Africa's largest country that could turn into a human catastrophe for millions of its non-Muslim citizens.

Under-covered stories of the week:  Now that I'm blogging many times during the day (www.worldmagblog.com), I run across lots of provocative and evocative stories that have received some news coverage, but — often for ideological reasons — not what they deserve.

Oil for Hussein.  As front pages report every bit of bad news on the Iraqi war front in bold type, newspapers are giving precious little ink to what could be the biggest kickback scheme in world history.  Call it:  How Saddam Hussein siphoned $10.1 billion for his regime — thanks to the United Nations.

Self-Proclaimed "Scourge of the Liberal Media" to Speak in Chicago:  "As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.  But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on:  While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored.  And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better."

Report Accused Davis of Battery.  While the Los Angeles Times wallows in slime about Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged groping and Gray Davis suggests that Arnold has committed "crimes," the paper has been strangely silent about charges that Davis himself had a nasty habit of physically abusing his staff.

Bagram GI says Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down.  U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday while she and her entourage arrived late, then cut in line and were served first.

Motorist Guilty in Windshield Murder:  A fact that many media are refusing to report about the case:  Mallard, who is black, giggled as she told friends several months later, "I hit this white man."  She has never, however, been charged with a "hate crime."


The Jessica Lynch Subsection:

Jessica Lynch:  Modern Myth.  Is this really the way we want to fight our wars, with young mothers coming home in wheelchairs?  (By the way, has anyone noticed how many of our women warriors seem to be single mothers?)

The truth about Jessica Lynch:  Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her.

Spin behind Jessica Lynch story?  Discrepancies in reports of POW's capture and rescue raise questions.

Jessica Lynch family under gag order?  Parents withhold details of ambush and POW experience.

The "Rescue" of Jessica Lynch:  Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.) has identified 50 false news stories created and leaked by a secretive White House propaganda apparatus.  The Pentagon's control over the news surrounding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch receives a good deal of attention in Gardiner's report. … Lynch's family confused the issue by telling the press that their daughter had not sustained any bullet wounds.  Lynch's parents subsequently refused to talk to the press, explaining that they had been "told not to talk about it."  (Weeks later, the truth emerged.  Lynch was neither stabbed nor shot.  She was apparently injured while falling from her vehicle.)


The looters liberals ignore:  Peter Jennings and the New York Times couldn't get enough of the looting stories out of Iraq.  But they couldn't care less about a massive, systematic looting scheme here at home that is robbing America's schoolchildren and rank-and-file teachers blind.

CNN Charged with "Disinformation Campaign" from Iraq.  A media watchdog group is calling CNN to task for withholding information about the brutal nature of the Saddam Hussein regime in order to keep a bureau open in Baghdad.

CNN Exec Admits Covering Up "Maniac" Saddam's Atrocities:  Here's another fascinating item we'll dedicate to Jacques Chirac, Nancy Pelosi and the other humiliated appeasement activists:  A CNN big is admitting his network covered up the atrocities of Saddam Hussein.

Pinocchios of the Left:  [Scroll down]  In order to keep its Baghdad bureau open, CNN never uttered a negative word about Saddam Hussein's regime. … What does a so-called news organization gain from having a bureau for 25 years if it hasn't the slightest intention of reporting the news?  The fact that those on the left lie isn't so surprising.  What boggles the mind is how badly they do it.

CNN's Disgusting Sins of Omission:  Those of us who did not live through the Nazi Holocaust find it hard to understand why so many who knew what was happening stayed silent for so long.  CNN provides the answer by its own example.

The National Debt, Down To the Penny.  Does anyone care that it is rapidly approaching seven trillion dollars?

"Reporting some of what we know":  Reporters want to be anywhere news is happening.  Sometimes, they face great danger.  In Iraq, for example, at least ten journalists have been killed so far.  But it doesn't do much good to have a reporter somewhere if he/she can't actually report what's happening.

CNN -- the Most Untrusted Name in News

Tom Daschle may no longer call himself a Catholic:  The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.

Mrs. Daschle's lucrative lobbying:  Mrs. Daschle's lobbying activities as senior public policy director of the law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell have received only a small amount of press scrutiny, save for an account in the Washington Monthly earlier this year.  Her lobbying activities surfaced again recently because of a controversial proposal before the Senate to lease military aircraft from Boeing - a client of Mrs. Daschle since 1998, according to federal records.

The year's 10 most underreported stories:  WorldNetDaily's "Operation Spike" pinpoints major events the media ignored.

10 most "spiked" stories of 2001:  WorldNetDaily.com has compiled its annual list of the most "spiked" stories — unreported or underreported major news events of the last year — after polling its readers and editors.  While most news organizations present year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months, WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a year-end compilation of the important stories most ignored by the establishment press.

Most "spiked" stories of 2003:  Although it's attracted little media attention, the "ramp" or "back side" of an airport, where unscreened workers and vendors have access to baggage, air cargo, food supplies, mechanics' equipment and the aircraft itself, represents the gateway to the next terrorist attack on U.S. airliners, predicts a former airline security consultant.

Most under-reported stories of 1997.

Shenanigans at Greenpeace — And the Media Yawns.  After a year in which financial improprieties gobbled up headlines like never before, it would stand to reason that a brewing scandal involving a major international organization, millions of dollars, and alleged tax evasion would receive similar treatment.  But if that major international organization is famed environmental group Greenpeace, the media goes mute.

The $600 Million Blacks Only Lottery:  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid $600 million to black farmers, admitting it discriminated.  Of course, this has had very little coverage in the news media.  As with so many other scandals in the Clinton administration, they have chosen not to report it.

Media Keep Ignoring Interracial Mass Murder in Wichita:  Because the suspects are black and their victims white, many observers in Wichita expected the brothers to be charged with "hate crimes," which presumably would have sparked national news coverage.  It didn't happen, and some are raising the specter of a racial double standard by the national media, based on the lack of news coverage of this mass murder.

Democratic political guru in sex extortion:  There is growing concern that the failure of most big media to report this case concerning a nationally known media figure may be evidence of media protecting its own.

Media Ignore Black Farmer Fraud:  The news media have recently discovered a big story that has been around since January 1999, when the Washington Post reported that the government had agreed to a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Department of Agriculture by black farmers seeking compensation for discrimination they allegedly suffered when they applied for government farm loans.

The Biggest Story They Won't Report:  The most important breaking news story that has been suppressed in recent times is the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. in 1993.  A leading Republican senator said seven years ago that the reason they were not investigating Foster's death is that if he did not kill himself, the president was somehow involved and the democratic process could not survive such a disclosure.  The media seem to share that view, because no major news organization has ever investigated or reported the flaws in the official investigations.

Attack at LAX:  The Clock Struck 13:  Tell us the truth. And if you don't have people who can tell the truth, or even recognize the truth, get some who can before it's too late and we lose all confidence in our government and our media.

Promoting All the History That Is Fit … to Support Media Biases:  One way to detect liberal bias in the media is to monitor coverage of new scholarship on early American history or the founding fathers.

Over 180 Witnesses Saw Midair Fire Before Flight 587 Crashed:  Most of the eyewitnesses to last November's crash of American Airlines Flight 587 have told investigators they saw fire and/or smoke aboard the doomed plane before it plummeted into a residential neighborhood in Rockaway, N.Y., the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Tuesday [6/4/2002].

Alaskans Hopeful Democrats Permit ANWR Vote:  The media fail to report about what Alaskans think about oil exploration in the Arctic.

Hillary Gets Media Pass on Cop Incident, J.C. Watts Not So Lucky:  After Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts had a run-in with an airport security police officer late last month, media outlets, both in Oklahoma and around the country, amply covered the story.  But a more egregious altercation in mid-October involving New York Senator Hillary Clinton has received almost no coverage, despite the fact that the police officer involved was injured so badly by Clinton's car that he has yet to return to duty.

America's wake-up call:  We have to wonder if the Clinton administration's cover-up of the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800 emboldened the perpetrators of these attacks to carry out their kamikaze missions.  The evidence that TWA 800 was downed by missiles is overwhelming.  Hundreds of eyewitnesses either saw a missile rise from the surface of the ocean or spotted a missile in the sky heading for TWA 800.  Radar picked up a missile track.  But all of this ended up being disregarded by the FBI, the CIA and the National Transportation Safety Board.

(See TWA Flight 800.)

China Funded Secret Plan to Sway U.S. Elections:  Most major news media ignored the bombshell development.

The Media Must Expose The Lies:  July 20th will be the eighth anniversary of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.  For eight years nearly all our media have refused to examine the evidence in this case.

Publisher Spikes Whitewater Tell-all by Key Witness:  A planned book by key Whitewater witness David Hale, who may be set to reveal new information about the death of Clinton lawyer Vincent Foster, has reportedly been spiked by publishers.

Cooking the Books at Education:  The sad truth, which has escaped the attention of most of the major media, is that there is no real guarantee that any of this money will actually get to the students that may need it.  This is because the Department of Education has been so mismanaged that it can't account for the money it is spending.

Embarrassing Chelsea Photo Hushed Up by Press

The Last Radio Network:  The Emergency Alert System failed miserably at the FCC's ceremonial public unveiling of the system, though this fact was underreported.  No actual EAS messages were successfully transmitted and received at the event.  Instead, exhibiting vendors merely activated a cacophony of sirens and lights by manually switching them on.

 Editor's Note:   (I have been able to find no additional information about this incident.)

Abortion Foe Stabbed; Media Silent:  The investigation of a little-known stabbing of a pro-life activist outside a Little Rock, Ark., abortion clinic remains open, leaving many pro-life advocates alleging official indifference to the case.  With information about the investigation being withheld from the public, Laura Echevarria of National Right to Life Committee believes the incident, which received little media coverage, highlights an inherent media bias against abortion opponents.

The last case of Louis Freeh:  Cynthia Grenier covers a story the mainstream media ignores.

Jenna Nabbed for Alcohol Possession, Chelsea Gets a Pass.

Foster Case Bombshell Tests the Media



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