The big news today on the covers of The New York Times and Washington Post is retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's attack on the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. That's the front page news, but that was only about half of Sanchez's remarks to the gathering of Military Reporters and Editors. In fact, […]
There's a new report out today on abortion worldwide and, as always, I'm skeptical. Why? Unsafe abortion has not declined worldwide, however, and is concentrated in developing countries, according to a study conducted by Dr. Gilda Sedgh of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, Dr. Iqbal Shah of World Health Organization in Switzerland and colleagues. […]
It's been more than two months since The New Republic's Baghdad Diarist, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, was exposed as a fraud, and the magazines editors have been silent. Why? Because they now know that Beauchamp is a liar and they don't want to expose the joke that is their credibility. Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee […]
than to be Frank Rich and remove all doubt. The New York Times columnist on Sunday took on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and was quickly handed his hat by Orin Kerr, who points out that the "Yalie" law school network doesn't typically (read: never) count an entry level lawyering job in Missouri as a […]
It wasn't a big story outside some mentions on Fox News, journalism Web sites and various Colorado media, so it would've been easy to miss the brouhaha created by an "editorial" in the Colorado State University student newspaper which carried read "F*** Bush" in what was once known as "second coming" font size of about […]
The Salt Lake Tribune had an interesting story about their rival editor's talk at a conservative policy meeting in that city over the weekend. Deseret Morning News editor Joe Cannon was one of the speakers at the GOP Council for National Policy meeting and agreed not to talk about what was said there. According to […]
I'm not sure which category to put New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in. It is true that we don't have many conservative columnists on the Op-Ed page. Actually, right now, we have David Brooks, who gets to be the dunking target for a lot of readers because he's a Republican and a […]
MSNBC's David Shuster is a jerk. In an apparent effort to win kudos from Media Matters for America, Shuster earlier this week went after Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) over her support for the Iraq war. So far, so fair -- though not exactly a sterling example of unbiased journalism. Shuster decided that he'd throw in […]
President Clinton's former hatchet-man, Sidney Blumenthal, comes out swinging in defense of Dan Rather and his laughable lawsuit in this article over at Salon.com. You don't need to read past the third paragraph of the story to see the return of "fake but accurate." In making his case, Rather will certainly establish beyond reasonable doubt […]
I mentioned last week that former anchor Dan Rather had filed suit against CBS. I continue to look forward to the discovery process. For those who are interested, National Review's Jonah Goldberg has a drop-dead funny bit of schadenfraude that you should read. In 2004, at the height of the Dan Rather Memogate story, I […]