Instapundit has an on-the-spot report of the brutal storm in northwest Florida. From the Piggly Wiggly in Apalachicola.

It’s Katrina redux! With profiteering!

Well, not really.

Thomas Lifson points out demonstrations in Spain in which the media seem to have no interest. I wonder why? Oh, yeah:

Something between 200,000 and one million people took to the streets of Madrid (see photo) for a demonstration against appeasement of terrorists.

No news value there, I guess.

I wasn’t sure quite how to categorize this–it’s not really criticism (though perhaps she could have done a better job of keeping her cool), but Fox News’ (hottest non-blonde news anchor) Julie Banderas apparently got into an on-air verbal brawl with one of the Phelps wackos this weekend. Here’s the Quicktime video.

Brendan Loy is unhappy about the Reuters coverage of the terror arrests in Toronto.

…for some reason, Reuters didn

Scott Burgess dismantles Johann Hari on the subject of Bjorn Lomborg and global warming. I share Scott’s take on both issues. And it’s another demonstration of scientific ignorance, innumeracy and illogic, and agendas over reality, on the part of some (too many) members of the press.

…at the Media Bistro:

I just noticed the MediaBistro poster’s name: Patrick Gavin. A man. I guess we all look alike to him.

For the families of those who have been lost, and for the media that denigrates them, from Ben Stein. Take a moment, amidst the picnics, barbecues and ball games today, and give them and their sacrifice some thought.

When it came to incompetence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Jonah Goldberg notes that the malperformance of the federal government was dwarfed by that of the media:

…virtually all of the gripping stories from Katrina were untrue. All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn

I haven’t had time or inspiration to write one of these lately (and I’m actually still working on compiling previous efforts in a book in my non-copious free time), but Victor Davis Hanson (who actually started this and originally inspired me with his Pearl Harbor piece back in ought one) wonders anew how today’s media would cover WW II.

It is not out of

Why don’t we hear more about the Israelis saving the Palestinian leader from assassination by Hamas?

Obviously, this report is very uncomfortable for those “cycle of violence” types who insist on finding moral equivalence in the Palestinian/Israeli violence. It’s also another unpleasant slice of reality for supporters of democratizing the Middle East to observe, yet again, that the Palestinians have freely chosen a government of incorrigible murderers (to replace the last bunch of incorrigible murderers). But it is what it is