The teaser is "Distorting the Facts." The headline is "Standard Operating Procedure." The columnist is Paul Krugman. The subject, however, is not Krugman's columns. Krugman, who long ago passed the "Entering Loony Left" roadsign, continues beating the "liar, liar" drum (I'm doing my best Tom Friedman impression) when it comes to the Bush administration. In […]
I've been asked by a few people to comment on the $350 billion tax cut passed recently by the Congress. Specifically mentioned was the concern in many reports last Thursday that poor families would not be eligible for the larger child tax credit. A careful reading of the reports reveals why these families don't receive […]
PBS' Bill Moyers, host of "Now" and avowed liberal, got some media scrutiny last year when The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes pointed out, among other things, that there was a pattern of Moyers financing organizations' research and then interviewing them on his show -- all without disclosing the relationship. Despite a promise to fully […]
The whining and cries of despair have been growing ever louder over the past few weeks as coalition forces in Iraq have searched, in vain, for biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. What the search has turned up is two trailers that are nearly identical to those described by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the […]
This memo on posted by National Review's Rod Dreher was also the subject of Bill O'Reilly's talking points last night. To: SectionEds Subject: Credibility/abortion I'm concerned about the perception---and the occasional reality---that the Times is a liberal, "politically correct" newspaper. Generally speaking, this is an inaccurate view, but occasionally we prove our critics right. We […]
I really never intended on focusing on The New York Times and its problems, but to not address them nowadays is like trying to ignore the elephant in the living room. In the Sunday magazine, the Times had an article entitled "The Young Hipublicans," by John Colapinto. The article is interesting, informative and proof positive […]
The New York Times has struck another blow to journalistic ideals with the latest revelation that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg did what Slate's Jack Shafer is appropriately calling the "Dateline Toe-Touch." In at least one instance, Bragg relied almost completely on the reporting of his own personal intern, J. Wes Yoder. Yoder spent four […]
I saw something mildly surprising last week as I was walking through the newsroom. It seems one of the reporters was killing a few minutes before he left for the day by playing one of those java online video games where you use a gun of some sort to blow up wireframe tanks and other […]
But that doesn't stop the debate. After my note last week about the change in the archiving policy at The New York Times several people pointed out that all of Krugman's columns are available at the "Unofficial Paul Krugman Archive." I was aware of this, but I prefer not to link there because it's not […]
The Department of Homeland Defense has raised the terror alert level up to orange. I've created the following graphic using images from the government's Web site and an e-mail that's been making the rounds on the Internet. Some of the text descriptions are from the e-mail, others are my own.