February 28, 2005
Bass ackward

A correction from Monday's New York Times: [A]n article on Friday about Syria's intention to withdraw its troops from Lebanon paraphrased incorrectly from a comment by Imad Moustapha, Syrian ambassador to the United States, after he acknowledged that his country had used its influence to have pro-Syrian candidates offered for the Lebanese Parliament. He said […]

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February 28, 2005
Mixed?

When you say someone has a "mixed record," what exactly do you mean? They've done some bad, some good? They've had some failures, some successes? Either of those definitions, I can understand, but Sunday's Los Angeles Times, in the liberal spirit of kicking someone when they're down and dying, runs an editorial in Sunday's paper […]

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February 25, 2005
Joseph Perkins quits

The San Diego Union-Tribune's conservative columnist, Joseph Perkins, last day is today. His final column can be found here. I'm going to miss Joseph, not least of all because he once bought me lunch at Hooters. The thing that sticks in my memory most about Joseph was a touch football game a couple of years […]

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February 25, 2005
Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria

The surest sign yet that the apocalypse is upon us comes from David Corn at The Nation magazine. Corn has been poked and prodded by the loony left to look into the "Jeff Gannon" "scandal". Corn comes to the same conclusion I have -- this is much ado about nothing. Let me stipulate that how […]

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February 22, 2005
More evidence Eric Alterman is wrong

It really shouldn't come as any big surprise that MSNBC blogger/The Nation media critic Eric Alterman is wrong when it comes to one of his major theses on media bias: "You're only as liberal as the man who owns you." (That's the title of chapter two of Alterman's book "What Liberal Media?") Really? That's not […]

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February 22, 2005
Okrent's idea

I must admint that I was both heartened and disappointed when I read New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent's column this weekend. I was heartened by Okrent's expressed desire for more dialogue with readers than the paper's letters section currently allows. A newspaper can only come out better in the end when it provides […]

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February 21, 2005
Troublesome reporters

I was interviewing for an editing job several years ago at a different newspaper and I was asked which was more important to have in a beat journalist: a good reporter or a good writer. My response that day was I'd rather have a good reporter. Bad writing I can work on -- I can […]

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February 21, 2005
Plame game

National Review's Rich Lowry echoes a point that's been made many times before but never seems to sink in. Two reporters, one from Time magazine and another from the New York Times are facing contempt of court charges for failing to reveal a source for a "crime" that likely never occurred. An axiom for defense […]

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February 20, 2005
Plot revealed

New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat, told people at a community forum in Ithaca yesterday that he had proof that Karl Rove had planted the forged National Guard documents used by CBS News. When confronted, he acknowledged that he didn't have real proof only fake proof. Audience Member: Do you have any evidence for […]

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February 19, 2005
Academic freedom

If there was any doubt that freedom of speech on campus is only allowed for those on the left, the contrast between how Harvard President Larry Summers and Colorado University at Boulder's Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill have been treated should have erased any doubt. To review: Larry Summers suggests that maybe men and women are […]

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