Earlier this week The New York Times released their "credibility" report. Let me start by saying that if the Times does everything that is suggested in the report, they will end up with a better newspaper at the end of the day. Two things struck me about the report. First, the seeming hostility of a […]
The New York Times has printed five letters on last week's Nichloas Kristof column castigating the Catholic Church for its condom prohibition -- a prohibition that I, for the record, don't personally support. Since my letter wasn't selected by the Times, you can read it here, exclusively. I must confess that I'm always somewhat puzzled […]
If this is what we can expect from The Huffington Post, Arianna's new venture will be of little use besides pointing out how many in Hollywood are completely nuts. At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds as […]
I was just watching a Bill Schneider report on possible Supreme Court vacancies on CNN's "Inside Politics." Some unidentified (at least, I didn't catch his name) pundit identified Justice John Paul Stevens as a "moderate." If he's a moderate, then there are no liberals on the court. At least conservatives will acknowledge that there are […]
Back in the '90s when they first began dogging the Clinton White House, Judicial Watch was often called a "conservative" or "right wing" group. Then, when Bush came into office, Judicial Watch began pressing the White House to release documents from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In the eyes -- and the news […]
The correction of the day at The New York Times: A review of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on Tuesday misstated the location of the site and reversed the order of two acts. The festival is two hours east of Los Angeles, not west. And Weezer preceded Bauhaus. Of course […]
This image hit the Internet yesterday, taken by Michel Yon in Mosul. Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited […]
Former New York Times reporter John McCandlish Phillips takes the "elite" commentariat to task over their outrageous rhetoric when it comes to the religious right. The piece is well worth a read, but I'd like to highlight the autobiographical portion of the article. I come at this with an insider/outsider vantage and with real affection […]
I never saw the front page in question, but The Hartford Courant apparently let their photo selection and page design take precedence over accuracy. Any number of items in the newspaper can provoke accusations of bias, unrestrained liberalism and sensationalism. Word choices, story choices, columnists, quotes, headlines, even advertisements can mean a day of terse […]
I've often criticized various newspapers for failing to provide a variety (usually opposing) views on their letters pages. The Los Angeles Times, in probably the most egregious case I've seen in quite awhile, illustrated this problem when they didn't publish a single letter criticizing an A1 North Korean propaganda piece. I monitored The New York […]