The Sanchez Report

The Media's Silence In Pittsburgh Is Deafening

From Accuracy In Media:

For months, the liberal media have been warning America that "right-wing extremists" and "tea partiers" are whipping the country into an anti-government frenzy that inevitably will result in violence, but their at best irrational and at worst manufactured fears have not been warranted.

Hundreds of thousands of government critics marched on Washington on Sept. 12 and caused not one bit of trouble. Rest assured that any incidents would have been plastered all over the media if they had occurred.

Contrast that with what happened Thursday at the G20 meeting of economic leaders in Pittsburgh. Police had to fire pepper spray and smoke at left-wing anarchists who haven't a clue how to conduct a peaceful protest, but the trouble has barely made the news. The Huffington Post celebrated the protests with a vote-on-your-favorite photo contest that included shots of the street thugs.

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The Public Continues To Distrust The Media

The public has spoken and it's not looking good for the mainstream media. The public's views of media bias and independence are now at the lowest level in more than twenty years of Pew Research surveys.

From Pew Research:

The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

How's That $780 Billion Stimulus Package Working Out?

From PowerLine:

Another month has gone by, so it's time to check up on how the "stimulus" bill is doing. Innocent Bystanders has updated its invaluable chart, which shows the actual unemployment rate compared with the rates projected by the Obama administration, with and without passage of the "stimulus" bill; click to enlarge:

On Thursday, Joe Biden announced that the stimulus bill is working even better than had been expected. Biden's dissociation from reality is nearly complete, but one wonders: aren't there any journalists who are capable of looking up the administration's predictions and asking Biden fact-based questions? Or is that considered too much work?