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 […]
The CBS miniseries "The Reagans" has been nixed apparently after an outcry from Republicans, the right end of the blogosphere and talk radio. CBS denies outside pressure resulted in the decision to move the series to the premium cable channel Showtime -- where it will find far fewer potential viewers, and doesn't depend on ad […]
First off, the name. I'm sick of it. "Rock the vote." I thought it was stupid when MTV came out with it decades ago, and I think it's stupid today. They should've canned that slogan the same time they got rid of "Just Say No." The soundbite montage was funny -- I suspect it will […]
Following up on Monday's special entitled "Jesus, Mary and DaVinci" ABCNews will do a piece entitled "Mohammed, Ahmed and Rushdie." Though there is no evidence the Prophet Mohammed had a gay lover and the vast majority of Islamic scholars scoff at the idea, ABCNews will spend an hour of prime time on the subject next […]
Right Wing News' John Hawkins talks with former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg about his new book, "Arrogance."
Union-Tribune reporter Kristen Green has an excellent piece in today's paper on one family's tragedy.
The Weekly Standard's Jonathan V. Last has an excellent article on the film "Shattered Glass" and its whitewash of the newsroom atmosphere that allowed fiction-writer Stephen Glass' lies to continually make their way into print. Good editors look at the case of Stephen Glass and think, "There but by the grace of God." A smart […]
When I have a few spare minutes at work, I'll often scan the wire feed coming into the newsroom. This is a raw feed that you really can't access anywhere on the Web. As I was checking out the op-ed wire coming in last evening, I noticed today's editorials from The New York Times had […]
When word came earlier this week that Columbia University professor Mark von Hagen had completed his report on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty with the suggestion that the prize be revoked. For those unfamiliar with him, Duranty parroted Soviet President Josef Stalin's propoganda and covered up a forced famine in the Ukraine that led to […]