The Los Angeles Times has decided to dump it's ultraliberal columnist and its conservative cartoonist. (Or, as the mainstream media would characterize them, it's liberal columnist and ultraconservative cartoonist.) I've always been in favor of intellectual diversity on newspaper opinion pages -- and that includes left-wing conspiracy theory wackos like Robert Scheer. For those still […]
Don Luskin has spent the last month-plus annoying the beejeezus out of New York Times public editor Byron Calame in an attempt to get corrections appended to the the Paul Krugman "Gore won" columns in the Times' database. It took more than a month, but now the acknowledgement of Krugman's errors are attached for posterity. […]
We all know that former CBS Producer Mary Mapes is a victim of an ingenious yet dastardly plot by Karl Rove, but this statement from an interview set to air tomorrow on ABC's' "Good Morning America" demonstrates once again that journalism has some serious problems. Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of […]
Today's New York Times editorial page takes the Bush administration to task for its refusal to cripple the U.S. economy by instituting draconian emissions controls like those outlined in the Kyoto protocol. In the course of a study comparing costs and benefits of various clean air bills rattling around Capitol Hill (including Mr. Bush's Clear […]
Let me explain how federal circuit courts work. Appeals are first heard by three judge panels. On rare occasions, the court may grant an en banc hearing, where all of the circuit court's judges decide on the case. So, when it comes to Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito -- the overwhelming majority of the […]
The editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer could learn a thing or two dozen from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. While the P-I is more than satisfied to reprint Joseph Wilson's lies "because he was the best person to know," the Post-Dispatch did some serious and critical reporting on a former Marine staff sergeant who is going […]
Well, there's more than one, but today we're going to look at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The P-I as it's known in Washington State, recently ran an article where it uncritically repeated Joseph Wilson's lie that he "found nothing" on his visit to Niger. When challenged on their failure to report on Wilson critically, the P-I […]
The question is here. The truth is I've never found New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd particularly amusing, and her whining about men is particularly lame. Maureen Dowd's penchant for provocative overstatement has found its most recent outlet in a much talked about excerpt of her new book, Are Men Necessary?, in the New York […]
Today's lesson is to never take a major media poll at face value. The latest CBS News poll has President Bush's job approval at a miniscule 35 percent -- that's 4-8 points lower than just about every other poll out there. How does CBS News get such a low number? Real Clear Politics points out […]
Today's David Brooks column is the funniest thing I've read in weeks. I read it for free because I have access to the wire, you'd have to pay for it. I'm going to quote a bit of it, just so you can appreciate just how big a mistake the New York Times is doing by […]