The Star-Telegram loves them some Barnett Shale and they want their readers to love the BS too. They don't want to cloud your pretty minds with anything negative about urban drilling.Here's the latest, happy-feel-good-warm-fuzzy from the … [Read more...]
Star-Telegram’s Barnett Shale Blog is Biased
Dr. Gene L. Theodori, Sam Houston State University, Department of Sociology conducted a survey of residents in Wise and Parker counties to see how they view exploration and production of natural gas in Wise County, Texas. The findings in the study … [Read more...]
Nooses in the News
Brains and Eggs has the best coverage of the CPS Energy supervisor who displayed the hangman's noose in his cubicle. David Van Os is the attorney representing IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and, as reported on B&E he is … [Read more...]
Star-Telegram To Run My REAL Letter Saturday
Today I got a voice message and email from David House, Reader Advocate for the Star-Telegram.The background is here but the cliff notes are: They did a hatchet job on my LTE and turned a rebuttal into agreement.Here is the message I received from … [Read more...]
Star-Telegram edits LTE to match bias
THIS is why I blog. THIS is why Citizen Journalism is so important. August 27, 2007, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran an opinion piece titled, Oh yes, we need the whole thing. This op-ed was written by Allan Saxe, Professor of Political Science, … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: No, it won’t make us safer.
I stumbled across an opinion piece printed in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram titled, Oh, yes, we need the hole thing. This piece, written by a political science professor at UT-Arlington, was long on rhetoric and short on fact. So much so, that I … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: Devon, you underwhelm me.
Devon Energy donated $50,000 to Wise County for "damage to infrastructure caused by flooding during the summer's unusually heavy rains." According to a Star-Telegram News Brief they gave the same amount to Johnson and Parker Counties.At first … [Read more...]
Senator Chris Dodd vs. Bill O’Reilly
Nice job, Senator Dodd.I snagged this from My Left NutmegBillo calls the photoshop picture vile yet he paid hush money to keep from being prosecuted for sexual harassment. … [Read more...]
The Iraq war is about the oil stupid!
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Fox lies and distortes the news
and that's okay. I know I've said this before and posted it all around the Internets tubes and all but it bears repeating.In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against … [Read more...]
Biil O’Reilly doesn’t like this picture
From HunterSo, what was this abominable photoshopped image, the one that was supposed to "bury" Daily Kos by the mere fact that some commenter once put it on the site? Well, here it is, but I warn you, it is very graphic and mean and abominable and … [Read more...]