This originally appeared as a comment I made in response to my post on the "Jeff Gannon" brouhaha. Help me out here. So Mokhiber should go too? Eric Alterman and David Corn shouldn't be allowed in either? Or anyone representing "The Nation" or "Mother Jones" or "National Review" or "The Weekly Standard"? So, "Gannon" asks […]
I must admit that I love it when people cite Media Matters for America as a source of unbiased information. Most times, when a journalist admits that he or she has been a liar, they disappear from the radar. You don't see Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair or Jack Kelley running a media criticism Web site. […]
Apparently he got a job offer at al Jazeera. (Not really.) CNN's top news executive had accused the American military, at a forum in Davos, Switzerland, of deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq. A few thoughts: I'm surprised that Jordan has resigned. I believed that if Jordan's admitted sell out to Saddam Hussein (Jordan confessed to […]
Thursday's New York Times letters to the editor: 14 total letters. 5 anti-Bush. 1 neutral. 3 pro-Bush. (One from the Federal Highway Administration in direct response to an editorial). 2 anti-Bloomberg. 1 pro-business. (Response to a direct attack in an editorial). 1 anti-business. 1 nut-case. I just loved the last letter, and wonder if the […]
James Taranto points out a letter in The New York Times science section on the brouhaha over Harvard President Larry Summers suggestion that maybe men and women are wired differently. To the Editor: Many years ago, after taking the G.R.E., I discovered that there were two sets of norms for reporting my math scores - […]
Not the U.S. military, but terrorists. Maybe Eason Jordan can't tell the difference between the two.
Former PBS newsman Bill Moyers has apologized for passing on a smear against former Reagan administration Interior Secretary James Watt. Earlier this afternoon, Bill Moyers called James Watt and "apologized profusely" for misquoting him and misrepresenting his views on the environment. Moyers says he will produce a written apology and think about ways to make […]
The story of CNN news executive Eason Jordan's charge that the American military was targeting journalists in Iraq for assassination finally broke into the mainstream media. The best article on the subject comes from the New York Sun. There is video of the forum and the comments, but that video is apparently not forthcoming. The […]
Wednesday's New York Times: 13 total letters. 6 anti-intelligent design. 1 pro-intelligent design. 1 neutral. 4 anti-Bush (out of 4 on the president's budget). 1 anti-American. I'm just not sure how to classify the intelligent design letters when it comes to conservative/liberal labels. I tend to lean toward saying that anti-intelligent design letters are anti-religious […]
A report in today's New York Times on a August 2000 fund-raiser for then Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton that lead to the indictment of Sen. Clinton's finance director, paints a picture of the VRWC out to get the Clintons. It also shows the continuing effort of a longtime nemesis of the Clintons, Judicial Watch, […]