Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times has me despairing of ever winning a Pulitzer Prize. [I] always enjoy hearing about how a teenage Dick Cheney stood off to the side with buckets of water to put out Lynne's flaming batons. But there was an even better moment during Claire Shipman's two-part "Good Morning […]
It comes as no surprise that when Congress passes a law as far-reaching as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawyers will find innovative uses for the tools provided. Some enterprising lawyers decided to use the act, which was intended to prevent people from copying DVDs, copy-protected CDs or MP3 files, to prevent the sale of […]
I must confess that Ron Howard's "The Paper" is one of my favorite films -- but that's probably just because I'm a journalist. One o fthe more memorable schticks in the film is a series of interactions between Michael Keaton and Howard's brother Clint. Clint is always writing some story and as Keaton walks by […]
Over at the Daily Recycler they've got a great bit of video from a Seattle TV station. If you thought all Kerry supporters were left-wingers, you should watch it -- the guy in the video has quite a right.
John Gibson's "Big Story" on Fox News sent out reporter Heather Nauert (schwing!) to interview the wacko protesters. Which brought to mind that old, bad pick-up line: "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?" Gibson should be ashamed of himself for sending Nauert out among those beasts.
It's not just the "national" media that has a problem with accuracy, fairness and simple honesty. The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader has too fallen victim to its own bias and arrogance.
Today's anti-527 editorial in The New York Times is interesting for its subtle nod toward the reality that there are some 527s who are supporting Sen. John Kerry. Campaign finance reform has accomplished a good deal in forcing the parties to rely on relatively modest individual donations. But thanks to the F.E.C., the nation's Potemkin […]
Patterico points to some analysis made by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders -- one of the minority conservatives in the media -- on the voting tendencies of journalists. KURTZ: I mention MoveOn, because there are a lot of liberal groups, as you know, Debra Saunders, these 527s -- have there been a double standard […]
You know it's bad when they won't even try to fake it any more. National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru reports on an e-mail response from Reuters to a press release sent out by the National Right to Life committee. What's your plan for parenting & educating all the unwanted children you people want to bring into […]
The former editor of the New York Times has taken on the serious subject of President Bush's intelligence, or, from his analysis, the lack thereof. Bush's former counselor Karen Hughes, in her awkwardly named book "Ten Minutes From Normal," assures us that what "Bush does best of all" is "ask questions that bore to the […]