Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law have an op-ed piece in today's Washington Post puncturing the "myth" of voter fraud in Washington State's 2004 gubernatorial election. Or consider Washington state, where McKay closely watched the photo-finish gubernatorial election of 2004. A challenge […]
The Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andres Martinez has resigned after it was revealed that he was dating a publicist representing Hollywood producer Brian Grazer -- whom he had selected as the first of several guest editors of the paper's Sunday Current opinion section. From a journalistic standpoint, it was a bad call to […]
The New York Times' "TimesSelect" service has hurt the influence of its op-ed columnists in the public discussion. Where once their was a cottage industry in ripping into Paul Krugman, there is only silence because only those forking over $50 a year can read the original drivel. In an effort to increase readership among the […]
"60 Minutes' " resident curmudgeon really needs two things. First, someone needs to take a weed wacker to his eyebrows. Second, he needs to retire. His folksy little pieces about his favorite typewriter or the fact that people don't pick up pennies were amusing 20 years ago. Now he's opining on serious issues -- and […]
The New York Times' Neil MacFarquhar had a piece in yesterday's paper on the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It's not exactly a ringing defense of the terror front group, but it's also not exactly an in-depth investigation. Compared to the Times' infamous 100+ inch investigation hit piece on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in […]
A correction from the New York Times editorial page: A March 7 editorial on the conviction of Lewis Libby said incorrectly that Joseph Wilson IV was sent by the State Department in 2002 to Niger to check out a report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium there. Mr. Wilson was sent by the C.I.A. […]
Democrats, led by John "My House is Big Enough for Both Americas" Edwards and the nutroots, have decided to cancel a primary debate to be co-hosted by Fox News after a joke by Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes attacked President Bush. That's right, Ailes made President Bush the butt of a joke, and […]
I caught a bit of this morning's "Meet the Press" journalist roundtable on NBC. It should come as no surprise that there were four journalist guests, and not an identifiable conservative to be seen. The assembled members of the high council expressed the consensus view that a pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby would not […]
I've written before about the three papers I won't work for and why. For the record, they are: The New York Times The Washington Times The Wenatchee (Wash.) World This is one of the reasons The Washington Times is on the list.
I don't visit the lefty blogosphere all that often because too often there's little point in doing so. The mainstream media are generally pretty good about reporting accurately the position of the left and without the heaping pile of foul language that too often makes up most of the lefty blogs' "arguments." Over at Newsbuckit, […]