Yes, I shouldn't expect a guy who landed on his head for most of the first half of his adult life to be able to do calculus, but simple division would be nice. Watching the Chargers vs. Titans this afternoon (I TiVo'd it so as to not have to wake up early.) I wanted to […]
Those of you living in the San Diego area might have missed the announcement -- it was buried in business briefs in this morning's paper that the Union-Tribune like many other newspapers around the country, is trimming its newsroom staff. Unfortunately, as is often the case, if you want better reporting on a newspaper's woes, […]
The New Republic this weekend finally came out with its investigation of fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. It's long, and, sadly, TNR editor Franklin Foer buried the lede. When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in […]
Does it come with a check? CNN's lame defense of its failure to vet the YouTube questioners continues to diminish their credibility. The whole point of these ground-breaking CNN/YouTube debates is to focus on substantive questions of concern to real people and to throw open the process to a wider range of Americans all around […]
The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes on CNN's vetting of questioners during the CNN/YouTube debate from today's "Special Report with Brit Hume." Well, remember CNN says they're just average Americans that are asking the questions that Americans are interested in. But they had 5,000 people send in tapes and they picked out those 34. And, included […]
I defended CNN a couple weeks ago when it turned out that several of the "undecided voters" at the Democratic Debate were in fact political operatives of one sort or the other. While it would’ve been nice for CNN to get less politically activist questioners, remember that that is a pretty good list of the […]
This is a much deeper theological question than the New York Times appears capable of handling: A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin’ Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The two faiths worship the same God — not different ones. I think if […]
Dan Rather is claiming that CBS News reporters are sitting on important investigative stories out of fear that what happened to Dan could happen to them. “In the wake of what’s happened to Rather, there have been important investigative stories that haven’t been broadcast,” said [Dan Rather's lawyer] Mr. [Martin] Gold. “Because the people involved […]
Courtesy of Dale Franks over at Q&O comes this bit of journalistic malpractice on the part of CNN. The subject was an investigative report on performance-enhancing drugs -- we'll call them Barry Bondoids for short. Interviewed was professional wrestler and retired Marine John Cena. Wow! That sounds like Cena is admitting to using Barry Bondoids, […]
Nation media writer Eric Alterman made an allegation in a column in that magazine that, well, I'll let you read it: When Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets died November 1, the New York Times repeated Tibbets's contention that "It would have been morally wrong if we'd have had [the atomic bomb] and not used it […]