Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington: Liberal bloggers came to a quick verdict on the Huffington Post’s announcement Tuesday that it was hiring Dan Froomkin, the recently fired Washington Post blogger who made a name for himself criticizing former president George W. Bush: Old media’s loss is new media’s gain. Coming after the recent Beltway debate […]
If the President Bush had attempted to illegally fire an inspector general who was raising a ruckus over a deal cut with a campaign supporter who had spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on his personal whims, the press would be going ape. It's not, but that's exactly what the mainstream media has been […]
Former Copley Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Herb Klein died today at the age of 91. Klein was also notable as the first-ever White House communications director, serving President Richard Nixon. I met Klein several years ago when I had the audacity to apply for a job opening for an editorial writer at the Union-Tribune. The only reason […]
Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Mary Katherine Ham has done a little Lexis/Nexis research and discovered -- surprise! -- the New York Times has different standards when it comes to expressing skepticism for presidential town halls. When does a "town hall" become a town hall, without need of scare-quote qualification, one might wonder? (When […]
I've spent too much time this evening attempting to educate Tom Traubert over at Poynter.org's Romenesko's Media Blog. Mr. Traubert is part of the delusional left that is convinced that if you're not Keith Olbermann, then you're a right-winger. Follow the link for the entire exchange, but I wanted to highlight this bit of insanity: […]
On June 24, ABC News is going to devote an amazing amount of coverage to President Obama's healthcare reform plan. ABC News’ Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer to Moderate a Primetime Conversation with President Barack Obama about the Future of the Nation’s Healthcare System Special Edition of “Primetime” to Air from the White House Wednesday, […]
If there's one thing you can say about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, it's that you know what to expect and you get it. The word is "predictable." In the past two weeks there have been three horrific murders. First, there was the murder of abortionist George Tiller at his church. A day later […]
Jim Geraghty takes a slam at President Barack Obama's "created or saved" X number of jobs claim. Look, I Just 'Saved or Created' Another Blog Post The Obama administration's relentless use of the "saved or created" metric, even in the face of increasing ridicule, is pretty remarkable. But if it won't die, perhaps the concept […]
I found this today: No. It's not real. It's a National Review parody. But after this sort of thing you're forgiven for thinking it might be. Then we have this report from another Newsweek editor, Evan Thomas: Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just […]
While I'm not sure whether I want to continue in the daily newspaper business when my tenure with the Union-Tribune is up this Friday, I continue to look at the journalism job sites because that's where my training and experience is. As someone who thinks that the recent talk of government bailouts of the newspaper […]