September 10, 2006
Stop digging

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 […]

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September 8, 2006
Defending the indefensible

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 […]

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September 6, 2006
I reject your reality and substitute my own

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 […]

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September 5, 2006
Media. Wound. Self-Inflicted

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 […]

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September 1, 2006
Still waiting for it

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 […]

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August 30, 2006
Nadagate

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 […]

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August 28, 2006
Colorado giving out free plane trips

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 […]

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August 26, 2006
Religion and political parties

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 […]

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August 25, 2006
What are they learning in J-school?

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 […]

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August 24, 2006
I can't make this stuff up

In the biggest waste of scarce journalistic resources in the history of mankind, the New York Times has hired a perfume critic. The New York Times announced today the appointment of Chandler Burr as its first columnist to review and rate fragrances. Mr. Burr, a longtime magazine writer and the author of "The Emperor of […]

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