According to Robert Novak (via Newsbusters) Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism face a very difficult path according to veteran journalist Bob Novak. The syndicated columnist made those remarks on a conference call with bloggers about his new book "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington." Novak blamed liberal discrimination which […]
From Monday's "Best of the Web Today" comes this interesting bit: Take Me to the River A reader wrote to the New York Times to inquire as to why the paper refers to Iraq as "Mesopotamia" when describing the al Qaeda affiliate in that country. He received the following reply from the Public Editor's Office: […]
This post has been updated There's been a lot of competition, but this week's winner is Columbia Journalism Review's Paul McLeary who came up with this thoughtful, incisive bit of analysis on the dustup over The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist." How dare a college grad and engaged citizen volunteer to join the Army to fight […]
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. President George W. Bush's fault. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Bush's fault. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ditto. The failure to capture Osama bin Laden ... in 1998. Bush's fault. Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it […]
Chicago Sun-Times columnist/wife of the publisher Jennifer Hunter, fresh off an embarrassing defense of her characterization of trial lawyer James Ronca as a "staunch Republican," goes back to the well once again. This time, Hunter publishes a letter in which Ronca defends his "staunch" Republican credentials. After a couple of paragraphs of name-dropping and a […]
If there was ever any doubt (there isn't) that the New York Times editorial page was partisan rather than principled, just check out today's lead editorial on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's use of state police for political purposes -- and imagine President Bush had behaved similarly. To say that the Times criticisms of Spitzer […]
The New Republic is now investigating the veracity of the claims made by the pseudonymous "Scott Thomas" that I outlined last week. This is probably something they should've done before they printed it, but The New Republic has a history there. I encourage you to visit The Weekly Standard's blog and just start scrolling for […]
First, The Washington Post: There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton. She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. […]
The New Republic, the liberal magazine that was made infamous because it printed dozens of articles made from whole cloth by Stephen Glass, may have been suckered again by a pseudonymous "reporter" by the name of "Scott Thomas." In an article entitled "Shock Troops" in the latest issue of the magazine, "Thomas" -- purportedly a […]
It's been a dozen or so hours since I wrote this post on Jennifer Hunter of the Chicago Sun-Times and I'm still in a state of shock. I must confess that I honestly expected a correction. I thought there might be some explanation and acknowledgement that journalists should use publicly available resources like OpenSecrets.org to […]