Don't hold your breath.
The Los Angeles Times editorial page comes out in support of the "nuclear option." Let's give credit where credit is due. Unlike some other newspapers, the Times is taking a principled stance, not a partisan one, and they should be commended for it.
Nicholas Kristof is often misguided, but he is not often as blatantly dishonest as he is in Tuesday's column. Here's a foreign affairs quiz: (1) How many nuclear weapons did North Korea produce in Bill Clinton's eight years of office? (2) How many nuclear weapons has it produced so far in President Bush's four years […]
A reporter and photographer for the Kalamazoo Gazette have been canned for partaking in some adult beverages while doing a story on "beer pong." This is a far cry from a story that was done at The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., under the headline "Plaster gets plastered." The cops reporter, Mike Plaster, was asked […]
The Los Angeles Times has fired reporter Eric Slater over a "flawed" (read: full of lies, including "the" and "and") article on the death of a Chico State student in a hazing incident. If you read between the lines on all of the corrections that have been made to the story, it appears as though […]
Some of these rules the military imposed on reporters covering the murder trial of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar -- the man who is "accused" of rolling a grenade into a tent, killing two Americans -- are overboard. I only point this article out, so I can tell a little story, based upon this rule: I […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial department now has a blog. That's all I've got to say about that.
Sunday's New York Times had an article by soon-to-be-departing Public Editor Dan Okrent on, among other subjects, the Times' outrageous Editor's note, which I discussed last week. Samuel Glasser, a reader in Port Washington, N.Y., who identifies himself as a former reporter and editor with three major newspaper chains, spoke for many: "The idea that […]
It remains a big problem at major newspapers. While newsrooms across the country have made it a goal to diversify their staffs -- at least when it comes to skin color and sexual orientation -- and the blind spot when it comes to devout Christians can illustrate how out of touch with "average Americans" the […]