From today's New York Times: [A] front-page article on Aug. 4 about evidence that Islamic groups are training fighters in Pakistan and sending them into Afghanistan misstated the nature of a 1998 American air strike on a militant training camp in Afghanistan. It was carried out with cruise missiles fired from ships in the Arabian […]
Inspired by the work of The New York Times graphics department, Hoystory.com has expanded on their work pointing out the incestuous relationships between the Bush campaign, GOP-leaning 527s, Sen. John Kerry and Democrat-leaning 527s. This graphic is 100 percent accurate and has checked for accuracy by the Times editorial page writers.
McQ over at QandO has tracked down a statement in last week's New York Times hit piece on the Swift Boat Veterans and discovered something worthy of a correction. But in that article there was this paragraph: A damage report to Mr. Thurlow's boat shows that it received three bullet holes, suggesting enemy fire, and […]
The New York Times TV Watch column by Alessandra Stanley is unintentionally hilarious. [T]here is the fog of war and then there is the fog of cable. Over the last few weeks, 24-hour news networks have done little to find out what John Kerry did in Vietnam, but they have provided a different kind of […]
The charges flying back and forth for the past few days in this year's presidential campaign is the calls by Sen. John Kerry, and now Sen. John Edwards, that President Bush order the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's advertisements off the air. Kerry and his surrogates have claimed, without any real evidence, that Bush is […]
As I read the Union-Tribune's abridged version of the New York Times John Kerry/Swift Boat Vets story, something occurred to me. As a story works its way through the process of actually appearing on the printed page -- from the reporter to the line editor(s) to the section editor(s) to the copy editor to the […]
Sen. John Kerry finally forced The New York Times' hand. America's alleged "newspaper of record" finally acknowledged the existence of a substantial number of John Kerry's fellow veterans who believe that he is unfit to serve as commander in chief. But the Times hasn't spent the last two weeks investigating the claims of these 200+ […]
I'm not a national political reporter, so I don't have the time or the access to really advance the Sen. John Kerry vs. the Swift Boat Vets story in any meaningful way. What I can do, however, is take a look at how the media is doing its job (or not doing its job in […]
We already know The New York Times is a liberal newspaper -- the paper's public editor, Daniel Okrent, admitted it just a few short weeks ago. But Okrent also said that he would have to wait until this year's election is over before passing judgment on the paper's political coverage. Well, look no further: Note […]
Too often the term is an oxymoron. Too many news anchors are in reality just news readers. Of course, if they can read the news, they can read anything -- even if it's written for them by the governor's staff. Bad precedent -- and the fact that their bosses don't seem to be troubled by […]