It looks like Paul Krugman's "gotcha" of Army Secretary Thomas White may have been fabricated. (Thanks to Henry Hanks for the heads-up.) In an article published in the New York Times on Sept. 17, Krugman quoted from an e-mail allegedly sent by White, then an Enron executive, where he urged an underling to "Close a […]
A hint to all newspaper editorial pages: If Eric Alterman thinks that you're doing a great job, then you've gone way too far to the left. This should be a wake-up call for the New York Times, but is likely to fall on deaf ears. In a Sunday editorial, the Times came out against Bush […]
After the 2000 Florida election debacle there was a lot of carping from the left that Bush was "selected not elected." Well, it was hogwash then and it's hogwash now. The (Democrat-dominated) Florida Supreme Court went outside the law in search of a way to get Al Gore more votes. To quote now-appeals court nominee […]
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately in media circles regarding whether or not The New York Times has been using its news pages to promote a political agenda. The American Prospect has published a less-than-stellar defense of the Times and Media Minded has an excellent analysis. Check it out.
If I keep getting letters of this quality, I'm going to have to start another blog just to publish them. I will say that the quality of the letters I receive are much better than those sent to your average newspaper. This one was from an individual who works for the newspaper that one of […]
I used to read The New York Times editorial pages for laughs. Now I read them because, well, someone has to do it. The sad thing is, the Times' op-ed pages are the most monolithic of any American newspaper outside the New York Post or The Washington Times. In today's New York Times we are […]
It's understood in newspaper circles that you don't place certain stories on the same page as certain ads. For example, when I worked at the North County Times we unwittingly placed the bios of victims of the Columbine school shooting on the same page as a gun show ad. Similarly you don't place stories on […]
MSNBC's Eric Alterman decides that he doesn't like Andrew Sullivan much -- probably because Sullivan's been on every liberal's favorite economist -- Paul Krugman -- like white on rice. (Full disclosure: A mention back in May by Sullivan got me my highest-traffic day -- but not $50,000.) Apparently the online magazine Salon has hired Sullivan […]
America's two major newspapers offer vastly different takes on the one-year anniversary of the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. The New York Times offers a thoughtful, well written piece on September 11, 2001, and how the nation has changed since then. Although America was bound together by emotion on Sept. 11, 2001, America […]
The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn defends his assessment of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly over O'Reilly's bungled effort to get honest answers from American Pat Roush's daughters who have been held in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade. McGurn is correct in his assessment -- it's likely the worst journalism O'Reilly has done in […]