CNN started its series on moral equivalency Tuesday night with the first part of its "God's Warriors" series with a focus on Judaism. (For those who are interested, the Little Green Footballs discussion thread on the episode is here.) I haven't had time to watch the series, and probably won't until this weekend, but I […]
There's been two articles occupying tabs on my browser for a few days on the future of newspapers. The first one that I want to get out of the way is this one written by John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine. I only link to the column out of habit, there's no need to read […]
The New Republic appears to still be on their August recess hide-in-a-hole and are, at last report, still standing by their since-discredited Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Author and reporter Richard Miniter has what may be the most in-depth account of the TNR/Beauchamp fiasco over at Pajamas Media. Among a string of disturbing revelations is this: […]
There was quite a bit of brouhaha last week when computer science grad student Virgil Griffith created a program which allowed users to correlate changes made to wikipedia and who owns the computer which made the changes. For the left side of the blogosphere, the outrage was directed towards corporations like Wal-Mart that edited their […]
No one should be surprised. When presidential adviser Karl Rove announced last week that he would be leaving at the end of August, people attending the news (not editorial board) meeting of the Seattle Times cheered. Don't think that this was the only newsroom where this sort of thing happened. It may not have happened […]
For those of you who haven't been following The New Repbulic's "Shock Troops" fiasco closely. When last we left what was once a semi-respected political magazine, they claimed their man in Baghdad was being prevented from contacting them because of the Army's investigation. This past weekend, The Weekly Standard was able to confirm that that […]
The New York Observer called CBS "newsman" Bill Plante to ask him about his comment after the announcement of the departure of Karl Rove (which I lambasted earlier, with video): "If he’s so smart, how come you lost Congress?" Plante's explanation: Reached by phone at his home in Washington D.C. on Monday night, Mr. Plante […]
I took Democrat senator and presidential aspiriant Barack Obama to task yesterday for running his mouth without first checking with his brain. If you will recall, Obama said: We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which […]
The sad thing is, I could probably write a roundup of idiocy by journalists far and wide just about every day -- certainly every week. First, CBS News' White House correspondent channels his inner jerk: You have to listen carefully, but Plante's question can be made out: "If he's so smart, how come you lost […]
I don't know about the management they've got at MSNBC, but why do I have a feeling that Chris Matthews should be getting a lecture from human resources? It's like "Anchorman" only real.