New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt revealed in his Sunday column that MoveOn.org's infamous "General Betray Us" ad was not only sold at a discount, but should never have run in the first place according to the paper's standards for advocacy advertising. Did MoveOn.org get favored treatment from The Times? And was the ad […]
Bob Owens notes that it's been two months since The New Republic editor Franklin Foer pledged to investigate the Scott Thomas Beauchamp fraud. Owens summarizes the overwhelming evidence that Beauchamp's writings were fiction and TNR's willful deceptions. And all we have from Foer is silence.
Capt. Ed rips into this "fact check" of this Fred Thompson statement: "You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn't take you long to realize that our people have shed more blood for other people's liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world.'' -- Fred D. Thompson, […]
DeGaulle of Dan Rather. Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the […]
If you haven't read these two articles (here and here) by Michael J. Totten on what he calls the Anbar Awakening. This is the kind of reporting the mainstream media should be doing, but isn't. Ramadi has changed so drastically from the terrorist-infested pit that it was as recently as April 2007 that I could […]
Idris Leppla is a student at Columbia University. Idris Leppla is a moron. Soon that pride turned to anger and fear: after my mom dropped him off at Annapolis, she came home with an acute sense of grief. The only thing she could talk about was how to get him out. In addition to missing […]
Newspapers have been trying for the better part of a decade to figure out how to leverage their Web sites into money makers. When I say money makers, I mean with the typical print profit margins of 20 to 30 percent or better. The only newspaper that has been successful at this is the Wall […]
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds noted yesterday that Colorado Democrat Sen. Ken Salazar had done what he characterized as the "world's quietest Sister Souljah moment," when he denounced the MoveOn.org "General Betray Us" ad to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, circulation 30,000. This prompted a missive from Gary Harmon of the Daily Sentinel: Prof. Reynolds: Here I […]
Last week, The Washington Post's Karen De Young reported a controversial claim about how Gen. David Petraeus is lying about the decrease in ethno-sectarian violencethat's made it into letters to the editor across the nation. "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian," the official said. "If it went through the […]
It should come as no surprise that the New York Times editorial page would toe the left-liberal party line that Gen. David Petraeus is a liar. However, if you're supportive of the troops and their mission in Iraq, then the editorial board invites you to barge in on their editorial meetings and be heard. When […]