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