Indiana Pacer Stephen Jackson, who gets paid millions to play a game, has called the new NBA dress code "racist" because it prohibits the wearing of jewelry worn over clothing -- think Mr. T. Jackson voiced no opposition to the bulk of the "business casual" demands in the NBA's new dress code, but he described […]
Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle has revealed that he doesn't have the smoking gun list of candidates and money amounts that are at the heart of his indictment of Republican Tom DeLay. Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments […]
I read the two big New York Times articles on Nadagate over the weekend -- the Times' own account and that of its formerly incarcerated reporter Judith Miller. The following thoughts struck me: Miller's (lack of an) explanation of where she got the name of Joseph Wilson's wife is not very believable. Supposedly she no […]
I haven't been one those people who is obsessing over President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, mainly because there's been next to nothing to comment on. The vast majority of the reporting has been horserace articles on who opposes her, who supports her, but there's been very little about Miers herself. Even […]
is not a reporter. She's a columnist, and has been for the past couple of years. She doesn't even fake impartiality anymore. So can we quit calling Helen Thomas a reporter?
Today's San Diego Union-Tribune has a story on the San Diego mayor's race. When I first read it, I was a little shocked by the following paragraph: Later, [mayoral candidate Jerry] Sanders was joined at a news conference by Arthur Laffer, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan who is known as the "father […]
NBC News reporter Michelle Kosinski wanted to dramatize the flooding in New Jersey brought about by seemingly never-ending rains, so she climbed into a canoe and rowed down a city street in Wayne, N.J. And then a couple of guys in hip-waders walked between Kosinski and the camera -- and revealed that the water was […]
I originally saw this during my blogging slowdown, and so I'm just catching up on it now. It is Aug. 31, and Sen. [Carole] Migden is lobbying on the Assembly floor for her bill, which would require cosmetics manufacturers to advise the state if their products contain cancer-causing ingredients. Migden's presence is typical. Senators routinely […]
Over at Mediacrity, a letter from New York Times public editor Byron Calame regarding the curious silence on Chuckaquiddick -- and the first reporting of it buried in a horse race story. Dear XXX: The editors said the story fell between the cracks, with one part of the paper assuming another part of the paper […]
Or rather, when he speaks it is torture. Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country'' if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration. "I have absolutely […]