January 9, 2007
Look ma! No brains!

It's stuff like this that convinces me that I'm much too intelligent to ever become an editorial writer. From the Chicago Tribune: No one theory explains why crime rates have declined in Illinois and around the country since the early 1990s. A decline in drug and alcohol abuse has been a welcome contributor. Community policing […]

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January 8, 2007
Stem cells

Science may have come up with a solution to the embryonic stem cell debate that allows for the creation and use of pluripotent stem cells without the ethical baggage that comes along with the destruction of human life. That's the good news. The bad news is that the media is still not as careful with […]

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January 8, 2007
Maintaining the facade

You can see video of NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on Friday night's "The O'Reilly Factor" here. I watched the video on my DVR Saturday night and I must say that the two quotes highlighted by Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters doesn't really do the video justice. Mitchell on Chris Matthews: "I don't think he's a […]

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January 7, 2007
The effectiveness of public shaming

I wrote last week that the New York Times was guilty of journalistic malpractice. Behind-the-scenes efforts by anti-abortion advocates and even its own public editor, Byron Calame, failed to remind the paper's editors about those antiquated ideas of honesty and accuracy. However, the full light of public scorn that comes with an article in The […]

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January 4, 2007
Jamil Hussein found?

There's word that Iraq's most wanted police captain may have been found -- no thanks to the Associated Press. Read all the details here. Now the real fact-checking can begin.

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January 3, 2007
Habeas corpus

It's a little bit like having Paris Hilton call Lindsay Lohan a slut. The old schoolyard taunt of "it takes one to know one" comes to mind. Former CNN executive Eason Jordan -- last seen leaving that organization after alleging, without any evidence to back him up, that U.S. troops were targeting journalists in Iraq […]

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December 31, 2006
Journalistic malpractice

The New York Times has a serious, deeply rooted, institutional problem: It's filled to the brim with left-liberal journalists, editors and executives who too often abandon basic journalistic principals when they conflict with their political orthodoxy. Sunday's column by public editor Byron Calame addressed the April 9 New York Times Magazine story by Jack Hitt, […]

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December 29, 2006
Iranian military officers in Iraq

Author/columnist Richard Miniter asks why the news of the capture of Iranian military officers in Iraq (who weren't there training the Iraq Army or police) isn't plastered across the front pages of American newspapers and the lead story on the network newscasts. But this is far more than a cross-border spat. Evidence of Iran’s involvement […]

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December 27, 2006
Something stinks in Minnesota

McClatchy -- a company that owns numerous newspapers nationwide -- yesterday sold the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million. What's scary for anyone working in newspapers today (read: me) is the fact that McClatchy bought the paper in 1998 for $1.2 billion. How in the h-e-double hockeysticks does a newspaper drop more than 50 percent in […]

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December 27, 2006
Do as I say, not as I do

The Democrat Party, old media and a plethora of pundits have been decrying for years the commonly held, but incorrect, belief that Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 terror attacks. President Bush has been accused of perpetuating this falsehood because he'll say something about terrorism in the same speech that he says something […]

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