China restricting mineral shipments to US, Japan

In a move connected to the current dispute between Japan and China, shipments of rare minerals have been delayed by Chinese officials.
The restrictions followed denouncement of American trade "actions" by Chinese trade officials.
What were these "actions"?
America was calling for an investigation into Chinese subsidies for "clean energy" exports and prior restrictions of rare earth shipments possibly being linked to forcing American companies to do more business in China.

I know we are in the hot part of campaign season, but this would be a major headline if we had an objective press.
The MSM love the Chinese and don't want to embarrass Obama, so this one is only a side story.

Hooray for the Media Research Center

The Media Research Center has hired billboard trucks to circle around Liberal media outlets with signs demanding they stop lying to the public and just give them the truth.
Manhattan and Washington DC are the current target sites as they have the greatest concentration of MSM headquarters.
This is a great start.
Now they need to have people show up anywhere the MSM is doing field reporting with signs demanding an end to the lies.

Media Hypocrisy Reigns at Beck Rally

The MSM could not resist tainting their reportage of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally by coloring their description of the crowd's makeup.
As if the media mouthpieces held a meeting to distribute talking points (Journolist?), the stories uniformly described the crowd as "overwhelmingly white" and the rally as "conservative".
When the screamers in the street are protesting the war on terror or a conservative president's increasing the national debt, the press fails to label them as "liberal".
They fail to officially notice that most liberal protests are "overwhelmingly white".

So why do they do these things?
Probably because they are biased elitists who look down their noses at conservatives and savor any chance to demean and demonize them.

Doing the work the MSM wilt not do

With the mainstream media bailing on the old-school ways of actually investigating and uncovering real facts instead of merely printing or commenting on someone else's work (what I am doing), a void has been created.
Non-profits have happily filled that void and may become an important story and information source for the MSM.
That alone will help bring a more centrist flavor to the news and is good "news" for us. 

Congressman assaults student

This video is unbelievably believable.
Democrat Congressman Bob Etheridge assaults and batters a student after being asked if he supports the Obama agenda.

I don't see anything of this story on the MSM yet.
Lets hope that Fox picks it up.
Say it with me: If it was a Republican...

The people don't want government media

Recently, several plans have been proposed to prop up the failing MSM.
Newspapers, the old alphabet network news and many news magazines are really hurting for ad revenue as people rely more on the new media on the internet and newly popular cable news shows like those on Fox.
When polled by Rasmussen, 55% did not even want to help save journalists' jobs and the "no" votes just go up from there.
When told of proposals to tax the very devices used to access information from the internet in order to help the old media, more than 83%.

I hope they actually listen to the people this time around.

Cuba smuggling people through Mexico

American Thinker has another "where are the MSM on this?" article.
This one is about a Mexican-Cuban connection in the human smuggling business.
It is very scary to know that Cuba is working with high level Mexican officials and hardcore Mexican criminal organizations to smuggle people into the country they want destroyed for the sin of succeeding without Communism.
Even the Mexican press is talking about this, but the US press is criminally silent.

FTC wants to make the "Government News" moniker official

The Federal Trade Commission wants to save the news.
Not the "New" News, but the old news.
They think that giving anti-trust exemptions to the MSM will help.
They don't seem to think the blogs are legitimate news sources and barely mention them in their discussions.
They want to provide news organizations with financial support (hello, Government News).
They want to make it harder to engage in fair use or discussion of other outlets' stories.

Just let the dinosaur die already!