journamalism
Roger Ailes Shuts Geraldo Rivera’s Mouth For Him
Hey, remember that fun video (above) of Geraldo Rivera laying down a righteous hissy over the LIES and PRIMROSE PATHS paved by his buddies, the Fox & Friends? It was from two days before the election, and Geraldo was in his finest mettle, like, waving a baby at a Katrina bridge INSANITY. He was yelling [...]
Learn ABC’s 11 Weird Tricks To Surviving A Mass Shooting!
Mass shootings! It is like, they are everywhere, lol! And when someone comes at you with 14 guns and 5,000 rounds of ammunition right after they got out of prison for murdering their wife and inlaws, because seeing if someone is a law abiding citizen before selling them weapons discriminates against people who are law [...]
Jennifer Rubin Makes Strong Case For Third Bush Term
Things we learned from Jennifer Rubin’s commentary in the Washingtonne Poste news-paper, this morning, about the former president George W. Bush, presented without comment. Only 53 percent of the American people disapprove of George W. Bush. That is almost not even a majority! “Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after [...]
Daily Mail Totally Jelly Of New York Post’s Boston Bombing Coverage
Oh Daily Mail, you guys are so awesome at journalism. (All y’all will want to read all the way to the end, to mark the exact moment when the Daily Mail received all the Pulitzers, even retroactively.) Zubeidat and her husband Anzor Tsarnaev have claimed that their oldest son received a call from the FBI [...]
Luke Russert Is Boston Bombing’s Edward R. Murrow
Doughy-cheeked nepotism hire (and Wonket coffee-mug model) Luke Russert is a big-time journamalist who knows how to cut through the chaff and get to the live beating heart of a news story. So as the crazy events played out overnight in Boston, with the Boston PD and federal agents engaged in a running gun battle [...]
Federal Government Either Deporting or Not Deporting Guy Who Definitely Bombed Boston and Either Way We’re Outraged
If you are the kind of radical extremist who gets his news from “newspapers” or “television” or other sources of so-called “journalism,” you probably think we don’t yet know who perpetrated Monday’s deadly bomb attack in Boston. But if you’re among the loyal members of Glenn Beck’s Internet media empire, you know the truth: the [...]
CNN Reporters Looking A Bit Glum Over Epically Messing Their Bed On Boston Bombing (Video)
UPDATE! Now with video stolen from Mediaite! CNN, after spending almost an hour getting more and more frenzied while trumpeting its scoop that law enforcement had identified a suspect and had either arrested that suspect or were on the verge of arresting that suspect, just had the terrible misfortune of having to retract its entire [...]
West Virginia Newspaper Shares Reader’s Awesome ‘Kill Everybody’ Voicemail
A West Virginia newspaper is taking flak for running a reader’s anonymous voicemail rant in its letters column, simply because the reader suggested some views that were a little bit outside the mainstream. In response to an article about the maybe-trumped-up firing of a lesbian teacher, a reader left a message on the Lincoln Journal’s [...]
Senate Republicans Getting Down To Important Senate Business Of Whining About Their Office Space
Hey, US Senate! Anything important going on in the country, that you might want to put your grindstone-noses and beautiful minds to, for the people what you represent? Oh, you are very very busy touring each other’s offices, to see if you want to claim seniority and steal those offices like they are a game [...]
Other Things We Are Mad About From 2005
Well, your Editrix certainly shit her own bed this morning, with her high dudgeon and great umbrage taken over a thing from 2005. HAW HAW DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME JOKE GOES HERE. But what are some other things we are mad about from 2005, as we hop in the Worst. Time Machine. Evar?
FishbowlDC: Nah Mang, We Didn’t Libel That Lady With The Social Diseases, The One Who Was ‘DTF’
My goodness, it is Journamalism Day here on yr Wonket! First we explored the plaintive coos of wordsmithery-maker Peggy Noonan. Then we yelled at The Atlantic and some mean lady from NPR. Then we splained defamation and invasion of privacy to James O’Keefe, AND THEN we splained satire to some sad little Onion. Who do [...]
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O’Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal
James O’Keefe—the blonde bombshell who set the conservative world of hidden-camera YouTube movies ablaze—has just agreed to a $100,000 settlement to calm down the unjustly fired (and weirdly litigious about it) ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera. According to a copy of the deal, obtained late last night by your wonkettes and viewable after the jump, [...]
Your Thursday Nice-Time: Small-Town Mississippi Newspaper Owner Tells Homophobes To Get Bent
Meet newlyweds Crystal Craven and Jessica Powell of Laurel, Mississippi, who exchanged vows earlier this month. Ms. Craven has brain cancer, and doctors and staff who’ve been treating her were among those who attended the small ceremony. While the State of Mississippi doesn’t recognize same-sex unions, the local paper, the tri-weekly Laurel Leader-Call, covered the [...]
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