Common Cause and MoveOn.org filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that Fox News' "fair and balanced" slogan amounts to consumer fraud. (via The American Mind) If the FTC actually rules in the two liberal advocacy groups' favor, then I'm going to be next in line with a petition. I'm going to nail […]
That is, if you're an editor at The New York Times. When the news broke late yesterday that President Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, had gotten sloppy with classified information, the blogosphere jumped on it. What I found most interesting, however, was how the various media outlets covered it. Or more accurately, didn't cover […]
Despite this report on Poynter, I have not been spanked by anyone -- at least for a couple of decades.
The Los Angeles Times editorial page should maybe run some of their stuff past a real lawyer. How embarrassing.
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with a colleague at the Union-Tribune regarding Fahrenheit 9/11 and whether or not President Bush has purposely conflated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Iraq war. This guy is a talented reporter and a bright guy and -- unsurprisingly -- a liberal. Though he acknowledged that […]
I confess I haven't followed internal Missouri politics very closely, so I can't independently assess all of today's New York Times editorial on the efforts of secretary of state Matt Blunt. But the editorial does contain one howler: Right now, Mr. Blunt is trying to stop St. Louis from holding early voting this fall. The […]
It's an election year, and the media continues to do a shoddy job of covering probably the most important presidential contest in more than two decades. It's a common lament, but the media spends much of its time not analyzing proposed policies or doing in-depth pieces on the candidates' records, but doing stories on the […]
Get your web designers/programmers to work duplicating this for the 2004 election.
Thursday's New York Times offers up the following correction on the op-ed page: [A]n Op-Ed article yesterday about Irish attitudes toward President Bush imprecisely compared the populations of Ireland and Atlanta. The population of Ireland is smaller than that of the Atlanta metropolitan area, but not that of Atlanta proper. What does it say about […]