I wanted to highlight this sentence in a Washington Post report that has become boilerplate in any article involving waterboarding. Independent legal experts have called the technique torture and said its use is barred by U.S. laws and treaties under all circumstances. It's missing a word at the beginning: "Some independent legal experts..." The Post's […]
I've repeatedly made the case that journalists would be better off if they admitted their political leanings and did their best to report fairly and objectively and let readers adjust as they see fit for the, to borrow a golf term, lie of the green. I made the case most extensively in this letter to […]
I came across this comment over at TierneyLab, the blog of New York Times libertarian science columnist John Tierney. In our modern world, computer program algorithms coordinate commercial aircraft traffic across entire continents, optimize investment strategies for billion dollar wall street portfolios and define national political poling [sic] strategies. However, it now appears that brilliant […]