Maybe you'll recall back in the 2004 election that at least one newspaper Web site raised the ire of some on the right when people discovered that the cute picture of a little girl holding a pro-Bush sign while perched on her fathers' back had a derogatory file name. Most users never saw it, unless […]
Jim Abrams, Associated Press reporter, lead paragraph of his story: The House's top Democratic tax writer outlined a $1 trillion plan Thursday to eliminate the alternative minimum tax and ease the tax burdens of most people by asking the rich and some companies to pay more. Asking? So, they don't have to pay it if […]
The Drudge Report yesterday briefly posted a transcript of a conversation between fabulist Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp and editors at The New Republic [Transcript: Pt. 1, Pt. 2 -- PDF format] along with documents from the Army's official investigation. [PDF format] Drudge ended up pulling it down, but not before the information was out, and […]
Over at PoynterOnline, Distinguished Fellow Butch Ward has an article up about newsroom safety. No, it's not a warning against sticking your fingers into a spinning press. Several years ago during a leadership seminar at Poynter, one of the participants approached me during a break. "Can I tell you something about myself?" she asked. "Sure," […]
If you want to see how the systemic liberal bias of The New York Times fails to confine itself to the editorial pages, Saturday's article on the letter Rush Limbaugh sold on Ebay for $2.1 million with the proceeds going to charity is an excellent example. After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical […]
The Columbia Journalism Review got around to noticing that last week's New York Times report on the comments of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez vis a vis the media failed to make it into reporter David S. Cloud's piece. Cloud’s remarks left me with two questions. First, why didn’t he include any mention in his […]
"They" is The New York Times. On their online "Op-Ed" page, the Times has posted a nearly 7 minute video that is nothing more than a infomercial promoting the insurgency in Iraq. To say that I'm furious would be an understatement. If the Times exposé of the terroist finance tracking program and its subsequent cancellation […]
We'll start with the two bad: First, The New York Times completely ignores the announcement that the Medal of Honor will be awarded posthumously to Lt. Michael Murphy of Long Island. There is no excuse for this. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. As one person noted: "If he had killed 15 people, he'd be on the front […]
The media followed-up yesterday on retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's remarks attacking the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. However, the silence on his remarks about the media continues. Nothing at Poynter.org's Romenesko blog. No follow-up or reaction at Editor & Publisher. The story did lead Fox News' "Big Story" program this afternoon, but […]