There's an interesting bit in Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz's latest piece, a profile of "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft that tells us one of two things: Kroft is either a conservative or a far-left liberal -- there is no middle ground. One reliable source -- Kroft's wife, journalist Jennet Conant -- says he […]
Yesterday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer put out its last print edition. The paper will live on as a Web-only publication, much down-sized and a shadow of its former self. Today, the Union-Tribune, my employer, announced that it had been sold to Platinum Equity and would be managed by the Black Press out of Canada. According to […]
Time magazine's online edition had a story yesterday listing "The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next." The intro contains this sentence: "The Rocky Mountain News closed, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, owned by Hearst, will almost certainly close or only publish online." Why the P-I doesn't make the top 10 list […]
Last Monday, I predicted, based on two op-ed pieces decrying the Senate's filibuster, that the New York Times editorial page would soon follow with an editorial attacking the GOP for using the filibuster. Today, the Times, proved me right. And if there was any question on whether the Times is partisan or principled, they answered […]
Now that we have a Democrat in the White House, we won't have to worry about the media manufacturing embarrassing images of the President having fun while people in the armed forces are dying. That's certainly one of the reasons why President George W. Bush gave up golf after the War in Iraq started. It […]
With the market continuing to tank, The New York Times Company doesn't look half bad when compared to most other media companies. E.W. Scripps just closed down the Rocky Mountain News last week. Of course, the hated News Corp. of Rupert Murdoch does a bit better. For those interested, some Rocky staffers have started their […]
The New York Times is most famous around here for two things: columnist/hack Paul Krugman and their definition of "filibuster." Throughout the Bush years -- and frankly any time you have A) a Republican President and b) between 51 and 59 GOP Senators -- the Times was very pro-filibuster and urged the GOP to accommodate […]
Today the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's oldest newspaper, published its final edition. Despite the government incessant efforts to save America's car companies, banks, investment houses and a seemingly never-ending parade of special interests, newspapers aren't in line for rescuing. In the long run, that's probably a good thing. The way so many in the media […]
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder castigated Americans for their cowardice when it came to discussing the issue of race in our society. By the weekend it had become clear to anyone with an ounce of sense that Holder was wrong. New York Post cartoonist Scott Delonas published this commentary on the recently passed stimulus […]
Lobbyist Vicki Iseman has settled her libel suit against the New York Times in return for a dishonest clarification. On Thursday, the two sides released a joint statement saying: “To resolve the lawsuit, Ms. Iseman has accepted The Times’s explanation, which will appear in a Note to Readers to be published in the newspaper on […]