It's a rare day when a New York Times op-ed columnist is outdone by one here at the San Diego Union-Tribune, but James Goldsborough has accomplished this difficult mission. I read the Times' Bob Herbert column last night, knowing well that I would get another quagmire diatribe because of this week's terrorist bombing of the […]
...shouldn't be throwing stones. Fox News reported yesterday (even though the Web dispatch is datelined today) that liberal "comedian" Al Franken is apologizing to Attorney General John Ashcroft. Why? Well, it appears Franken has a little problem with the "truth." Comedian and left-wing activist Al Franken has apologized in writing to Attorney General John Ashcroft […]
The Wall Street Journal publishes a column by Lance Cpl. John R. Guardiano, a Marine serving in Al Hillah, Iraq. Guardiano's experience is contrary to what most of the mainstream media would have us believe about what's going on in Iraq. In fact, there is another Iraq that the media virtually ignore. It is guarded […]
Josh Chafetz, an Oxford University student, outlines the journalistic malpractice going on at the once-respected British Broadcasting Corp.
You gotta love this correction in today's Union-Tribune: A story yesterday about the massive power blackout that rolled across the Northeast, Midwest and southern Canada, misidentified Ottawa as the capital of Ontario. In fact, Ottawa is the capital of Canada. I had nothing to do with this mistake, but it does go to show you […]
Now I know why I don't read Tapped that often -- I don't have the hours in the day to spend on much of this drivel. SCHWARZENEGGER'S GAMBIT. Tapped should be clear about our basic position on the California election: California voters wanted a stupid recall provision in their state laws, and some of California's […]
The Washington Post's Robert J. Samuelson examines the New York Times' response to the Jayson Blair scandal and finds it wanting: The Blair affair was treated as a stand-alone mishap. Here is a culture of arrogance. The thread that connects the Blair scandal with the Times' other lapses is overconfidence -- a faith that it […]
The New York Times' Bob Herbert blames California's extraordinary fiscal woes not on the state's free-spending legislature and governor, but (surprise!) on President George W. Bush. First, an issue with the newspeak of the American left. Economist and Nobel laureate Herbert said the Bush tax cuts are "redistributive in intent and redistributive in effect." Only […]
From today's New York Times corrections desk: An article on Sunday about attacks on the American military in Iraq over the previous two days, attributed to military officials, included an erroneous account that quoted Pfc. Jose Belen of the First Armored Division. Private Belen, who is not a spokesman for the division, said that a […]
Is that what the BBC has become? Well, this account of their BBC World Service radio broadcast is evidence of. The author, journalist Denis Boyles, also makes a larger point about journalism as a whole that's worth remembering. "I was wrong." Of all the words in all the paragraphs in all the stories ever written […]