Earlier this week I wrote far too much about Bill Bennett's reductio ad absurdum that it can be dangerous to take a flyer on the possibility that we wouldn't have a Social Security crisis if all of those 30+ million aborted future workers were around to fund grandma's Social Security check. Bennett illustrated the danger […]
The Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz, an excellent journalist, wrote an article yesterday about the paper's daily internal review of the paper's coverage. One thing that's caught some readers' eyes is this bit (but you should read the entire thing): On Thursday, Book World Editor Marie Arana, noting that she had been "a Young […]
Over at The New York Times, America's paper of record is again sitting on a politically inconvenient story. A couple of months ago took the Times several weeks to finally report on the liberal talk radio network Air America taking money from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx. Now, the Times […]
I avoided commenting on the Bill Bennett dust-up over the past few days because most of what I would've written had been stated elsewhere. See here, here and here. That last link highlights our hypocrite of the week NPR/Fox News' Juan Williams. While condemning Bennett for making the true, but offensive, observation that aborting all […]
New York Times editorial page editor Gail Collins publishes a letter from the editor in today's paper restating her committment to running corrections when errors are made on the editorial page. We correct all errors, from heart-stoppingly egregious to sublimely insignificant, because we believe that The Times should take its reputation for accuracy seriously. It's […]
That's how John Podhoretz describes New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from prison yesterday after she agreed to testify before the grand jury in the nadagate affair. I hope some day somebody writes all this down, because the whole story is unbelievable. Miller never writes a story about Plamegate, but insists she must keep […]
The Los Angeles Times has a couple of articles on the San Diego Union-Tribune and publisher David Copley. I'm not going to comment on any of this (because I have a mortgage payment) except to say that I've worked at the Union-Tribune for five years next month -- and I've never seen Helen or David […]
I hate to say it, but I think if you had a Christian on the copy desk -- or even someone who once went to a church for a long wedding and got bored and started flipping through the Bible in the back of the pews -- you wouldn't have made this error. The About […]
Neil Cavuto is interviewing Congressman Barney Frank on the DeLay indictment and the corrupt Republicans. The criticism is coming from a guy whose gay lover was operating an "escort service" out of the congressman's apartment. Couldn't they have gotten a stand-up Democrat who doesn't have some taint of scandal of some sort to appear on […]
The New York Times isn't putting its editorials behind its TimesSelect wall of silence -- maybe it should. An editorial in today's Times urges readers to "connect the dots" on global warming and its influence on hurricanes. Hurricanes derive their strength from warm ocean waters. Ocean temperatures have been rising over the last 100 years, […]