Friday evening, just hours before the presidential debate, Matt Drudge broke a story on ABC News' double standard for the presidential candidates. Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public […]
The New York Times has a lukewarm editorial on Saturday's historic election in Afghanistan. As I read the piece, I couldn't help but be reminded of the Times editorial on the Venezuelan referendum which called on those who complained of obvious, widespread fraud to simply shut up. The Times is always more pessimistic when anything […]
Near the end of the panel discussion, National Public Radio's Juan Williams made the claim that the White House had written Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech to Congress and comments with the president at a Rose Garden ceremony. Dear Chris, Juan Williams claimed that the White House wrote Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech […]
When I saw this, my jaw just dropped. Drudge has a copy of an ABC News memo directing reporters to hold the Bush and Kerry campaigns to different standards of the truth -- Bush to the higher standard; Kerry to the lower. Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these […]
The anti-America collection of Web sites known collectively as Indymedia have had their server hard drives seized by government investigators. SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A Texas Internet company said Friday it gave U.S. government officials the hard drives from a pair of its Web servers leased to online journalists and others. San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed […]
Former U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer has an op-ed piece in today's New York Times complaining about the media's mischaracterization of what he has said. Doesn't Bremer know better than to try and correct the media when they're attempting to make a point about Bush's incompetence?
Before each of the presidential debates this year, the New York Times editorial page has invited some noteworthy and some not-at-all noteworthy individuals to pose hypothetical questions for President Bush and Senator John Kerry. Unfortunately, the questions the Times' first feature are no longer available online. But my distinct impression after having read them was […]
The New York Times continues to help laying the groundwork for Democrat claims of a stolen election the day after a Bush victory is announced. The "editorial" is little more than a a replay of last month's piece, except for the removal of the embarrassing contradiction. The Times' latest installment in its attempt to cast […]
Today's New York Times contains a bit of self-realization on the part of the Times' reporters and editors -- they don't know enough about the military and how it works. An article yesterday that examined statements by Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards in their debate on Tuesday night incorrectly supported Mr. Edwards's […]
One of the toughest things for copy editors is writing the one column headline. Long words don't work, and, depending on the number of lines, you can only use a few short words. This is not one of those situations. Republicans Glad to Lose on Bill to Start New Draft What does a barely informed […]