Fox Butterfield is a New York Times reporter who periodically has people point at him and laugh. Why? Because of articles like this one. The number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 2.1 percent last year, even as violent crime and property crime fell, according to a study by the Justice Department released […]
On journalism: The Sacramento Bee's Diana Griego Erwin quit a couple months back after questions were raised by editors about one of her columns. The results of an investigation into Griego Erwin's work show that she created dozens of columns from whole cloth. An internal investigation into the published work of former Bee columnist Diana […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune's Ruben Navarette makes a bad call in today's paper. I can't believe I'm defending Tom Cruise. Yep, that's a big mistake. Instead, Cruise kicked off a debate over a subject that a lot of people don't feel comfortable discussing: whether Americans are too quick to turn to prescription drugs and whether […]
The left has lost it. Even those whom you could once count on being as on the sensible center-left like Andrew Sullivan [third item] appear to have chosen instead to dive head first into America-hating insanity. On yesterday's "Fox News Watch," they briefly addressed the differences in coverage between Sen. Dick Durbin's American servicemen=Nazis and […]
What's really interesting about Rove's liberals-are-soft-on-terrorism remarks is the play that it has received from the establishment press. The New York Times ran a brief -- three paragraphs -- on Sen. Richard Durbin's slander comparing American servicemen to the Nazis and Soviets buried inside the paper. When Durbin finally sort-of apologized, they ran an AP […]
Prompted by The New York Times' lame editorial "The Center Can Hold" -- which prompted me to file a request for a correction with Public Editor Byron Calame (no substantive response yet) -- Sen. John Cornyn responds to the charge that GOP senators are merely a rubber stamp for Bush's judicial nominees. To the Editor: […]
Donald Luskin points out that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's Friday column could've been his first-ever "crossover" column -- if only he had mentioned that those involved in Ohio's MDL scandal are Democrats. Instead, Krugman -- in a sin of omission -- makes it appear that Ohio Republicans are the state's big criminals. Quite […]
Thanks to actor/reporter Sean Penn, I'm relieved to discover that the radical Muslim ruling minority in Iran isn't really serious about that "Death to America" thing. But he told a film student during a visit to Iran's Film Museum in Tehran on Monday that the "Death to America" slogan chanted each week at Friday Prayers […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Susan Paynter, hasn't used her latest opportunity to give the other side of the story. She's obviously in no hurry -- in fact, it appears she has a history of just telling one side of the story.
Today's San Diego Union-Tribune has an article which makes substantial progress on filling a gaping hole I identified in an earlier story on possible corruption by Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Said San Diego Realtor Christian Peter: "In November 2003, property values increased approximately 20 percent on a year-to-year basis in San Diego County. A […]