For those of you aspiring secret agents, today's New York Times provides us with a rule that is key to keeping your covert identity secure: Don't let your politically minded spouse list your name in his/her Who's Who listing. One of the most puzzling aspects of the C.I.A. leak case has had to do with […]
One month and five days after The New York Times ran an article allowing a lawyer to lodge an anonymous, ad hominem against director Peter Jackson, the Times finally acknowledges its faux pas. An article in Business Day on June 27 headed "Lawsuit of the Rings" described a court action by Peter Jackson, director of […]
I saw this Associated Press article on the wire earlier, and you can quickly guess what piqued my interest. Feinstein is a middle-of-the-road Democrat who sometimes breaks ranks with her party colleagues. Two years ago, she was one of six committee Democrats who voted in favor of Roberts for the appeals court. Feinstein is middle […]
As NRO's Stephen Spruiell noted earlier this week, The New York Times screwed up, accusing the Bush administration of violating a non-existent court order. I alerted Spruiell that Editor & Publisher had repeated the Times' error. Unlike the Times, E&P has not made a correction. Yesterday, the falsehood spread when Fark.com, a combination news-link site, […]
I'm skeptical that this Washington Post story on House Democrats' move to address retirement savings might eventually mean an alternative plan for fixing Social Security would be forthcoming. According to the article, Democrats continue to refuse to even discuss the issue until President Bush and the GOP vow to stop suggesting any form of voluntary […]
Today's New York Times has a piece under the heading "MILITARY MEMO" which expounds on the question in the headline "All Quiet on the Home Front, and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why." The Bush administration's rallying call that America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and women in uniform, who […]
The Los Angeles Times' media critic, David Shaw (who usually does good work), has gotten quite a bit of flak from the blogosphere because of his disdain for non-journalists practicing punditry. Unlike blogs, Shaw takes pride in the fact that reporters for newspapers have their work vetted by "four experienced editors" before going to press. […]
You'll forgive me if I first believed that this article in today's Washington Post was a spoof written by a junior high school French student just a little to impressed with herself. It has been a long time since so much syrupy nostalgia has been in evidence at the White House. But Tuesday night, when […]
I poked my head into a bookstore/newsstand yesterday afternoon as I was walking around downtown Stonington, Conn., with my family, and picked up a copy of the Hartford Courant. What caught my eye was this story at the bottom of Page 1: "Bloggers Helping To Keep Rove Story Boiling." Unfortunately, you can read the entire […]
I've gotten the opportunity to watch some of southern New England's finest local news and it's merely reinforced my perception that just about all local news is garbage. Last night, for example, the local newsreader -- I'd be extremely hesitant to call her a "journalist" -- shared the fact that one of the London bombers […]