I've been keeping a close eye over at Poynter.org to see what fallout, if any, there is from Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to call it quits. While going through the letters, I came across one from Dan Walsh and immediately thought: Correct! He's got it! Re -- Young readers of op-ed pages. Memo to […]
The Associated Press ran a story on the wires late yesterday on Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to quit his cushy job [I characterize it that way because I'd love to have it] because publisher David Copley spiked his Monday column. If you've ever wanted evidence that the mainstream media tilts left, this article has […]
The Union-Tribune's often infuriating liberal columnist James Goldsborough has quit. The news broke late yesterday afternoon and there was a lot of bewilderment in the newsroom. Goldsborough said the reason he was given after the fact is that the column, about why Jewish voters overwhelmingly cast their presidential ballots for John Kerry, was "offensive." "The […]
I must confess that I don't watch much of Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. But somehow, I don't buy a whole lot of this. OJR: How would you describe yourself politically on the liberal-to-conservative spectrum? How important do you think it is for MSM to be transparent on their political affiliations? KO: I'm not political. I […]
Some poor guy jumped off the Empire State Building last week to his death. Today's New York Times has a soft feature piece on the history of jumpers and also how they've been covered. One item caught my attention as I read the piece. That is why the city has a kind of procedure for […]
When I first saw the report about the arrest of a North Carolina journalist who'd called a source and left three messages requesting a comment I thought the justice system in the state had gone completely nuts. The woman, instead of just calling back and telling the reporter she had nothing to say, instead went […]
The next time you hear MSNBC host Chris Matthews talk about his concern for the poor and how evil Republicans are always sticking it to the little guy, remember this: What with Natalie Jacobson, Pat O'Brien, Bob Arnott, Tim Russert, and The New York Times's COO Janet Robinson already on the island, Nantucket's become quite […]
... and don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. For those of you who skipped Tuesday, CBS News managing editor/anchorman Dan Rather has announced he will step down on March 9, 2005. Make no mistake, CBS made this announcement in order to give Rather an opportunity to have a […]
Salon's Eric Boehlert takes the occasion of the announcement of New York Times columnist William Safire's retirement to take him to task for decades of mistakes and inaccuracies. I'm not going to defend Safire, he's certainly made errors and not corrected them, but Boehlert's outrage is conspicuously constrained to Safire. The problem Boehlert describes is […]