New York Times Supreme Court reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Linda Greenhouse gave a speech in June at her alma mater, Radcliffe, and it's readily apparent that she's tired of supressing her personal, political views. In June, Linda Greenhouse returned to Cambridge, Mass., to be honored at Harvard. Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers […]
I'd been meaning to get to this interview of former Washington Post senior political reporter Thomas Edsall by Hugh Hewitt last week. The entire transcript is worth a read, but I'm going to highlight a couple parts of it. HH: A proposition. The reason talk radio exploded, followed by Fox News, followed by the center-right […]
It's been all over the Internet for the past couple of days and this morning political junkies everywhere got to see the famous Bill Clinton anger on "Fox News Sunday." You can check out the video, along with a bunch of links here. There isn't much to say about this that hasn't been said, so […]
It's something they teach in journalism schools across the nation, but leave ultimately leave up to the individual's conscience: How far should you go in the pursuit of a story? It's an issue that more commonly crops up when you're dealing with the legal system here in the United States. Case in point: the two […]
I must confess that I read the feature pages of newspapers next to never. I generally stick to the news, sports and opinion pages. However, yesterday I was flipping through the Union-Tribune Web site when I came across this column by the paper's religion reporter Sandi Dolbee. Now, Dolbee has done some solid reporting from […]
It doesn't have quite the kick that the "Virginia is for Lovers" campaign by the Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, but apparently for WUSA 9 TV, the voters in Virginia aren't fond of Jews (Hat tip: ThirtyAughtSix). In a promo for their sharp-as-a-bowling-ball reporter Peggy Fox, WUSA9 had this to say: Our Peggy Fox raised […]
You just can't make this stuff up. In a debate yesterday between GOP Sen. George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb in the race for one of Virginia's Senate seats, local television journalist Peggy Fox posed an insightful, intriguing, relevant question: Following the "macaca" episode, the Jewish press published stories that appeared on the Internet that […]
I completely and wholeheartedly agree with something said by Neal Gabler on Saturday's "Fox News Watch." Let's not mince words here. The biggest bottom-feeder on all of television is Nancy Grace. Well said. Oh, and yes that's the only thing he said that I agree with.
A brief addendum to one of the editorials in today's San Diego Union-Tribune got the media critic in me thinking. A final important note: There is something disturbing about the Los Angeles Times asserting in its first two tape-leak stories that it had “obtained†the tape, implying that its acquisition was the result of journalistic […]
The New York Times resident Fig Tree, public editor Byron Calame, has a piece in today's paper on photographs used during the recent Hezbollah/Israeli conflict. I'm not that interested in the main subject of his column, but this bit at the end got to me. A final thought on morality. Some supporters of Israel, who […]