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 […]
USA Today columnist Andrew Kantor continues to make journalists look bad over on his blog. Kantor has posted two updates (here and here) on his blog and closed the comments on his original post after racking up 101 comments -- most of which properly take him to task for what can only be described as […]
If you're a reader of Confederate Yankee or Little Green Footballs, you no doubt recall the Class B brouhaha over Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell's defense of fake news. (See here and here.) Those articles got Confederate Yankee searching and he came up with a reason that Mitchell might be sympathetic to fake news […]
The headline was made famous by Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" show after he was informed that one of his predictions for the outcome of an experiment was woefully inaccurate. The editors of the New York Times seem to have taken Savage's attitude to heart when it comes to the former ambassador Joseph […]
Mary Mapes, the BDS-suffering political hack who destroyed CBS's credibility and Dan Rather's career in an effort to swing the 2004 presidential election, has got a new job -- with Rather at Dallas Mavericks owner's Mark Cuban's HDNet cable channel. *UPDATE* In what I'm going to call a "fake, but accurate" moment, Mapes is denying […]
It's been nearly a week since The Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff revealed that the original leaker of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity was Richard Armitage -- and that said leak was not part of an effort by the White House at payback for her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, blowing the whistle […]
Christopher Hitchens has a great article in Slate on the fallout from the Valerie Plame leak investigation. As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president's war policy. (His […]
It was obvious before they ever flew the guy out of Bangkok on the taxpayer's dime that John Mark Karr had nothing to do with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Karr had claimed that he drugged the girl, yet no drugs were found in her system. Karr's relatives said that he was more than a […]
I've written repeatedly that the Democratic Party is at best a little antagonistic toward religious believers. At worst, the Democrats are too often seen as downright hostile and unserious. During the 2004 election, presidential hopeful Howard Dean tried to reach out to religious believers by sharing the fact that his favorite New Testament book was […]
And more importantly, who is teaching it. I check out JournalismJobs.com periodically just to see if my dream job is available. I don't usually click on the teaching jobs, because I don't have a M.A. and don't much care to get one -- let alone a Ph.D. Honestly, advanced degrees aren't very useful in the […]