Bloomberg columnist Kevin Hassett gushes over the Reagan-esque qualities of NJ Governor Chris Christie, citing his tough educ. policies. Missing from the puffery is mention of Christie's bungling of a federal grant that cost state schools $400 mn.

While other companies, freed by the landmark Citizens United Supreme Court decision, are deciding whether to make political donations, Rupert Murdoch has boldly made his decision. Go political. Go big. Damn the naysayers.

Questions are being raised about the accuracy of a Time cover story featuring a maimed young Afghan woman, which warns against abandoning the war in Afghanistan. Among other things, the reporter's husband has an interest in foreign investment there.

Time tells us that Michelle Obama's private vacation to Spain was definitely not a "low-cost trip." When have members of the First Family ever taken "low-cost" trips, and why is the Beltway press so purposefully playing dumb on this topic?

Fox News Washington correspondent Carl Cameron reportedly mocked his Fox colleagues’ behavior on the Shirley Sherrod scandal and agreed that the cable network has fueled the rise of the Tea Party movement.

Fox News writes that a takedown of blogs by the FBI is a government takeover of the Internet, claiming an "Internet Killswitch" bill was approved by the Senate. But that bill wasn't passed, and Fox refused to publish a comment correcting its mistake.

FOX News is promoting the idea that the Justice Department is unwilling to prosecute voting rights cases when the victims are White and the perpetrators are Black. And now CNN is lending FOX News' race-baiting mainstream credibility.

Perhaps as an over-reaction to charges of left political bias, PBS airs a three-hour love letter to Reagan-era diplomat George Schultz. The fluffery is funded by corporations, like Bechtel and Charles Schwab, on whose boards Schultz served.

CNN fires veteran newswoman Octavia Nasr for "Tweeting" her opinion about the death of a Hezbollah leader. In a profession that claims to respect diverse views, CNN stands out for buckling to pressure from the cult of conventional wisdom.

Reporters at Politico chide Rolling Stone Magazine for reporting General Stanley McChrystal’s incendiary remarks about Obama administration officials, saying that a beat reporter wouldn’t “burn bridges” to powerful sources by embarrassing them.

The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler used footage doctored by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to report that passengers on raided "Flotilla" were anti-semites. We now know the footage was faked, but Kessler has yet to retract his report.