President Bush won't be looking to the New York Times editorial page anytime soon for advice on running a successful campaign. After all, the Times endorsed that tree guy, Al Gore, last time -- and we know how that worked out. Anyway, in the interest of being a good corporate citizen, the Times on Sunday […]
I'm watching a recording of Sunday's "Meet the Press." Host Tim Russert, who usually is a pretty solid interviewer has just asked Sen. Tom Daschle (D-N.D.) that if we are unable to convince the French on the U.N. Security Council and the French and Germans in NATO to lend more support in the form of […]
When it came over the wires on Thursday, my jaw dropped. I'd been reading Bernie Goldberg's "Arrogance," and he recounted The New York Times' treatment of books by Christina Hoff Sommers, specifically "Who Stole Feminism?: How Women have Betrayed Women" and "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men." What was […]
The Pulitzer committee has decided not to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to The New York Times' Walter Duranty for his "reporting" on Stalin. This should come as no surprise -- it seems more and more often the journalistic profession requires much higher standards of everyone but themselves.
I was reading today's CNN.com report on President Bush's visit to Great Britain when I came across the following paragraph: Bush also discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Israel "should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences." […]
I'm reading Bernard Goldberg's new book, "Arrogance" and it's a good read. Goldberg spends the first few chapters outlining how the mainstream media responded to his first book "Bias" and to him personally. Goldberg refers to a piece attacking him in USA Today by the newspaper's founder Al Neuharth. Neuharth's short, 300 word column took […]
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter illustrates why most journalists shouldn't be allowed anywhere near numbers. We'll start with an absolute oh-my-God-what-was-I-thinking howler. Surely by now someone has told Carter of this utterly astounding error he (and his fact checker, if he even has one) has made here: not knowing the difference between a trillion and a […]
For some unexplainable reason, The New York Times waited over two weeks to publish this letter from historian Mark Von Hagen, whom the Times hired to look into Duranty's work. To the Editor: Regarding Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s suggestion to the Pulitzer Prize Board that revoking Walter Duranty's 1932 prize recalled the "Stalinist practice to airbrush […]
I hate to say it, but it's clear that The New York Times isn't the paper it used to be. The Jayson Blair fraud and Augusta Country Club Crusade aside, the paper's Op-Ed writers also have some series credibility problems. If the Bush administration, and Republicans everywhere, were as bad as people like Maureen Dowd […]
I've got CNN's "Capitol Gang" on right now and Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt is running down some of the "lies" that we've allegedly been told about Iraq. Dick Cheney said, on the eve of war, said that Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons. That is untrue. Well, kinda. Al, why don't you go and […]