Journalists are supposed to be striving to be objective. In fact, it's that very attribute that they use as a shield against questions about their own political beliefs: "It doesn't matter who I voted for. When I pull out my pen and notepad, I'm an objective journalist, just reporting the facts." Most journalists try really […]
I watched the Sunday night Chargers-Broncos game with Hoystory the Elder and a group of current and retired teachers and administrators. It was an exciting game. With last week's come-from-behind victory over the Bengals combined with last nights, I feel like the old Air Coryell days have returned. One thing remains the same, and I'm […]
William Powers of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government writes that the press is excited by the new Democrat Congress because Democrats are just more "fun" to cover than Republicans. Whatever. Reading Powers' piece is like listening to some nut describe the space aliens […]
When I saw this come over the wires yesterday, I just had to let out an audible sigh. Why? Because, through ignorance or bias, the Associated Press is carrying water for the Democrats. (AP) -- The Bush administration, trying to push through judicial nominations before Republicans lose control of the Senate, resubmitted six nominees, including […]
Dear Mark, I read the transcript of your interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show a few weeks ago. I don't often get to listen to Hugh's show because his show typically comes on the air as I go to work at the San Diego Union-Tribune. I'm not a reporter. I'm not an editor. I design […]
CNN's Jack Cafferty is an angry, old, curmudgeonly liberal. Cafferty's short opinion and e-mail segments take place during CNN's "Situation Room" hosted by Wolf Blitzer (at least, that's when I see them). Cafferty's recurring role during what is ostensibly supposed to be an unbiased newscast is decidedly left-leaning and makes the assertions that CNN is […]
Remember back when Iraq wasn't a threat? Remember when the United States invaded Iraq despite the fact that Saddam Hussein truthfully said he had no weapons of mass destruction and no plans to build any? Well, today's New York Times has an article on that government Web site that invited armchair Arabists to translate (because […]
Hugh Hewitt had ABC's political director on his show the other day and it was a very interesting interview. (You can find the transcript here. It was a three-hour interview, so it's long.) I read the transcript last night before going to bed and had a few thoughts. First, it was refreshing to hear Halperin […]
ABC's online political blog-type-thingy "The Note" has the outline of how the media has planned to cover these last two weeks leading up to the midterm election. "The Note" lists the 12 storylines and then follows up with link after link after link after link to examples. A few selected highlights: How the (liberal) Old […]
The Boston Herald's Jules Crittendon encourages New York Times public editor Byron Calame to look a little deeper into the elite journalist's mindset. Calame’s mea culpa has a bit of the dog-ate-my-homework about it. As blogger Don Surber noted, Calame blamed his opinion in part for his sympathy with the "underdog" -- the New York […]