February 2, 2005
Surprise!

Factcheck.org says MoveOn ad is a lie!

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February 2, 2005
Letters Project

Today's New York Times letters to the editor: 17 total letters. 1 politically neutral. 5 anti-Bush. 11 non-political.

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February 1, 2005
Letters to the editor

About two years ago, I applied for a job opening at the Union-Tribune. The position I applied for was that of letters editor. I made it pretty far along in the process, having two pretty extensive interviews with the then-editor-in-chief of Copley Newspapers and former communications director for President Richard Nixon, Herb Klein. The entire […]

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January 30, 2005
On payola

I haven't been beating the drum of outrage at these opinion columnists who, it was discovered, had been getting money to do public relations for the government. I think it's a waste of taxpayer funds that are better spent on, well, just about anything. As to the pundits, these payments/government contracts should've been disclosed. Disclose […]

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January 28, 2005
Stupid graphics

News channels have a kind of sick love affair with flashy, eye-catching graphics that convey little tidbits of information. However, sometimes it's better to just leave it alone. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

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January 27, 2005
Journalism education

Hindrocket over at Powerline has gotten a little bit of an education in how major (read: large) American newspapers work. The kerfuffle began when a Washington Post article posted online yesterday contained the following paragraph: Some of the Democrats who opposed Rice were centrists from states in which President Bush won or ran strongly in […]

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January 23, 2005
Deep in denial

I keep going to PoynterOnline's MediaNews feature hoping to see some sort of serious discussion of CBS's fradulent memos story. It hasn't happened -- and probably will never happen. Why? I think the two big questions that the independent report left unanswered -- the authenticity of the documents and whether political bias was the reason […]

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January 20, 2005
Big hypocrite

Guns are bad. Really bad. At least, that's what the Academy Award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" purported to show. America is a dangerous place with all of these gun-wielding nuts running around. Then you see this: Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. Police […]

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January 19, 2005
So, which is it?

From a Reuters report on President Bush's second term: The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy and the U.S.-led […]

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January 18, 2005
Lessons learned?

The New York Times editorial board takes a final look back at the 2004 election and decides that a 4,000 vote screw-up in North Carolina's race for agriculture commissioner is an open-and-shut case against electronic voting machines. Let's not excuse the monumental screw-up in North Carolina, but the only thing more shocking than how little […]

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