Although Antonio French’s Blog PubDef is left of center in its reporting, he has done a fantastic job of breaking stories and providing us more than the 30 second sound bite video we normally see on the local news. KSDK in St. Louis, the NBC affilliate, has apparently filed a complaint with Youtube over his […]

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Since Baghdad Tony has woken up and discovered Missouri’s “Sunshine Law” in his recent posts, we asked him yesterday when he was going to write about Judge Stith and the judicial panel’s recent disregard for the Sunshine law? You know, the violation Judge Stith admitted to in Tuesday’s Senate Rules Committee hearing. Here’s Baghdad’s response […]

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Here are sound words of advice Mr. Catanese should heed from the September 10th issue of National Review Magazine: “When word of Karl Rove’s resignation reached the Seattle Times during a daily news meeting, cheers erupted. Executive Editor David Boardman sent a pair of memos to his staff: “That sort of expression is simply not […]

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With lazy “reporters” like Jo Mannies stealing stories and providing us with crack reporting like this, we’re frankly surprised the St. Louis Post Dispatch numbers aren’t worse. From TheSt. Louis Business Journal: Lee Enterprises Inc. reported Monday that its July advertising revenue fell 2.1 percent on weak real estate and automotive advertising. Company officials said […]

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Another Rovian Conspiracy: Part of a running series on why St Louis’ major newspaper is doing a disservice to the city and the region. This article from yesterday’s Post-Dispatch is amazing. It’s the second hit piece that the paper has had on a developer who has purchased a variety or properties in the city of […]

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“Baghdad” Tony Messenger’s acting ability is almost as bad as the flawed analysis he gives us daily. Messenger is feigning ignorance today on why we’ve affectionately named him “Baghdad” Tony Messenger. For those of you who are new readers, click here to be brought up to speed. Mr. Messenger, aren’t most journalists of a curious […]

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You have to read it to believe it. No matter what your opinion is on embryonic (the distinction was not made in the AP article) stem cell research you must admit the bias is blatant.

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The expose on journalists and their financial ties to Democrats they are supposed to cover objectively keeps getting better and better. We can now add a Kansas City reporter to the list of bias: Patterson has covered the Iraq war and anti-war movements for the National Catholic Reporter, an independent weekly newspaper in Kansas City. […]

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Is this a news article or opinion piece? How a Missouri Republican operative interacted with the Justice Department in pursuit of a partisan agenda. By Murray Waas In the closing weeks of Missouri’s tight 2006 U.S. Senate race, the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., took the unusual step of revealing that his office’s investigation […]

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The Missouri Political News Service would like to thank the Jurassic decision makers over at the Kansas City Star for discontinuing theirfree K.C. Buzz blog last week. Not only are you one less blog for us to compete with to a broader audience, but you also demonstrate like “Baghdad” Tony Messenger, that you really have […]

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