The Los Angeles Times has been paid to promote Tom Cruise's upcoming summer blockbuster The Life and Times of a wacky Scientologist Mission Impossible: 3. To do this promotion they rigged some of their newsracks to play the movie's theme song when opened. Unfortunately, some of the music boxes weren't mounted securely enough and they […]
A Maine blogger is being sued by an advertising agency after he criticized the work the company was doing for the state's tourism board. Lance Dutson of mainewebreport.com is being sued for defamation, libel and copyright infringement after he, among other things, pointed out that the sample phone number the agency used in advertisements was […]
"United 93" hits the theaters this weekend, and it's gotten largely positive reviews. The movie review compilation site RottenTomatoes.com notes the movie, with a 93 percent positive rating, is the best-reviewed drama so far this year. Of course, there's that 7 percent who don't like the film. Among them is the Union-Tribune's own David Elliott. […]
This guy got lucky: When the truck he was working on fell off the jack, the local football team happened to be there to lift the truck off him. However, someone needs to send a dictionary to the Associated Press in Illinois: Officials say Marsh was pinned Saturday morning when the pick-up fell off a […]
That just about describes today's New York Times editorial railing against the use of lethal injection for the death penalty. We believe that the death penalty is in all cases unconstitutional ... Because the world's hardest substance is the skull of a New York Times editorial writer. The editorial bases its constitutional argument on the […]
Today's Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial on the war against the Bush administration being waged from within the intelligence community. However, the part that really hit me was the brief synopsis of how the media has been involved in reporting the warfare: CIA Director Porter Goss is now facing press criticism for trying […]
The media, and some states' laws, have a decades-old practice of not identifying victims of rape, but are free to publish the names and photos of those accused of rape. The logic behind this policy was to encourage rape victims to discount the stigma associated with the crime and come forward and report it. Hand-in-hand […]
Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine and he's an evil lefty. Not all lefties are evil, but Mitchell is. Greg Mitchell is the Great Evil Lefty. Down with the Great Evil Lefty. Kill the Great Evil Lefty. Chop off Greg Mitchell's head! Pretty wacky, huh? At this point I'd like to […]
Journalist/blogger/media critic Jay Rosen was on the Hugh Hewitt show last week and he said something that I think is spot-on regarding how the media portrays itself to the public: HH: Let me give you an alternative resolution to this, Jay Rosen. The paper should just admit that their journalists are polemicists who carry their […]
The source for The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the CIA's secret prisons for terrorists in Europe has been fired, and probably will be spending some time in federal prison. According the the New York Times, the traitor is Mary O. McCarthy, a Kerry supporter who was appointed to her position as senior director […]