Today's New York Times report on the House vote to ban the procedure commonly-known as partial-birth abortion. The bills passed by the House and the Senate will be reconciled, sent to the president and the president will sign it. Lawsuits will be immediately filed and the Supreme Court will ultimately decide its legality. I'm pro-life, […]
PBS' Bill Moyers, host of "Now" and avowed liberal, got some media scrutiny last year when The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes pointed out, among other things, that there was a pattern of Moyers financing organizations' research and then interviewing them on his show -- all without disclosing the relationship. Despite a promise to fully […]
I really never intended on focusing on The New York Times and its problems, but to not address them nowadays is like trying to ignore the elephant in the living room. In the Sunday magazine, the Times had an article entitled "The Young Hipublicans," by John Colapinto. The article is interesting, informative and proof positive […]
The New York Times has struck another blow to journalistic ideals with the latest revelation that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg did what Slate's Jack Shafer is appropriately calling the "Dateline Toe-Touch." In at least one instance, Bragg relied almost completely on the reporting of his own personal intern, J. Wes Yoder. Yoder spent four […]
I saw something mildly surprising last week as I was walking through the newsroom. It seems one of the reporters was killing a few minutes before he left for the day by playing one of those java online video games where you use a gun of some sort to blow up wireframe tanks and other […]
The Wall Street Journal's Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. (isn't that a mouthful?) has an article on the Jayson Blair affair. I won't bore you with more about the disgraced former New York Times reporter, but Jenkins did make one point that I think is very valid in this day and age. Take whatever percentage of […]
One of my friends, Sam, has a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. While this is frequently amusing, his sister-in-law, also a friend of mine, calls him to the carpet with the simple "inappropriate comment" to tell him that he's out of line. This has stuck him with he nom de […]
The Pentagon is disputing an "unbiased" report from the BBC that claimed that U.S. forces that rescued POW Jessica Lynch did it just for show and their rifles were loaded with blanks. Somebody over at the BBC must've been hit with a stupid stick -- repeatedly -- to believe that tripe. *UPDATE* It appears that […]
There's a good article over at National Review Online on our continued failure as a society to create a colorblind society. This is an instructive story to keep in mind whenever we are told that companies should look especially hard to find employees that will move the company toward greater "diversity." In the first place, […]
The New York Times continues to insist that the Jayson Blair affair had nothing to do with the fact that Blair is black. In today's Times, columnist Bob Herbert has some wise, true words and some that are demonstrably false. Mr. Blair was a first-class head case who was given a golden opportunity and responded […]