I was kidding when I wrote that I would file a lawsuit with the FTC over The New York Times "All the News that's Fit to Print" slogan. Somebody else took my joke seriously. (Via Poor and Stupid.)
I was kidding when I wrote that I would file a lawsuit with the FTC over The New York Times "All the News that's Fit to Print" slogan. Somebody else took my joke seriously. (Via Poor and Stupid.)
Last month Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (aka FAIR) came out with a report entitled: "Still Failing the 'Fair and Balanced' Test." The report is an indictment of Fox News' main nightly news show, "Special Report with Brit Hume," for featuring very few liberals in the news interview portion of the program. One interesting thing […]
Maybe it will improve over the next few days and weeks as reporters have the opportunity to really do some serious digging into the claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but thus far the reporting has been abysmal. Last night's highly touted "Nightline" episode was perhaps the very epitome of shallow reporting. […]
L. Brent Bozell's new book is an entertaining and informative read on the state of the U.S. media. If I was teaching a college journalism class, I'd assign Bozell's book, along with Eric Alterman's "What Liberal Media?" and have the students decide who made a better case. To my mind, Bozell's analysis is superior -- […]
I'm watching Fox's media criticism show -- one that should be an hour long, but is only half that -- when pundit Jim Pinkerton makes mention of the Swift Boat Veterans for truth and refers to them as Sen. John Kerry's "fellow officers." Neal Gabler jumps in and claims: "Not fellow officers." Jim, rightly, disputes: […]
I'm the only really "out" conservative in the newsroom. So, it should really come as no surprise when I get snarky messages over the newsroom's instant-messaging system like this: 'Capt. Gregory Ratzlaff, 36, of Olympia, Wash., died Tuesday in a non-combat incident at a base near Najaf. He was assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter...' (do […]
I'm curious to see how Eric Alterman and his ilk who believe that the media -- especially News Corp.'s Fox News and The New York Post -- are part of a right-wing cabal react to this news. Five executives on Kerry's list joined him in Davenport, Iowa, today at what the campaign called an "economic […]
Today's Washington Post has an article on the journalists' Unity Convention in Washington, D.C. The convention is all about promoting diversity in newsrooms that is only skin deep. (Columnist Michelle Malkin offers her take on the event here.) This paragraph was the one that, once again, really steamed me: During last year's plagiarism scandal involving […]
I'm often quick to criticize the media for shoddy reporting, lack of research and inaccurate headlines, so I'm pleased to point out examples of really good journalism -- this time by the Union-Tribune. Reporter Rick Rogers and photographer Nelvin Cepeda were with the U.S. Marines in Iraq as they battled for Fallujah. The story is […]
I've been keeping a close watch on Jim Romenesko's Letters page over at Poynter Online to see what sort of reception New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent's admission that the Times is a liberal newspaper received from professional journalists. Surprisingly, the answer is: "Not much." In the four days since Okrent's column appeared, only […]