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 […]
Los Angeles Times reporter/blogger Michael Hiltzik's blog has been "suspended." Apparently that's the blogospheric equivalent of being given a time-out. The scandal has also made The Washington Post. Patterico, in the wake of his impressive sleuthing has expressed concern that the Times might throw the baby out with the bathwater and end their blogging experiment. […]
Royal Phillips Electronics has filed a patent on a TV that would allow broadcasters to "lock" your TV when a commercial comes on -- no channel surfing for you! Philips acknowledged, however, the anti-channel-changing technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if […]
Patrick Frey over at Patterico's Pontifications has exposed Los Angeles Times columnist/blogger Michael Hiltzik as a dishonest, conniving ... journalist. You see, Patterico has pretty solid evidence that Hiltzik has been pretending to be other people on the 'net to both praise himself and to attack others. I encourage you to read Patterico's piece, because […]
Today's Washington Post has a good article by Howard Kurtz on Fox News Channel's Brit Hume. This part resonated with me: Hume says he came to feel "out of step with ABC News's natural tendencies." He recalls challenging an assignment about how the first President Bush "isn't doing anything" by saying: "Has it ever occurred […]
Today the San Diego Union-Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its series of stories exposing the unprecedented corruption of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. The citation reads: For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Two Prizes of $10,000 each: Awarded […]
San Diego Union-Tribune ombudsman Gina Lubrano's column today addresses the paper's coverage of the immigration rallies that took place across the nation last week. Unfortunately, I have a couple of bones to pick with Lubrano's reporting. First, there is this bit: It was not quite as straightforward as that. To say that the march, which […]
I must confess that I'm generally not a big fan of the raunchy Comedy Central cartoon series "South Park." However, you've got to give series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker credit for being equal opportunity offenders. On Wednesday night, the latest "South Park" episode was to feature a satirical take on the Muhammed cartoon […]
Reminiscent of the New York Times' tendency to start their annual crime statistics article with: "Despite a drop in crime, more people than ever are in prison..." CBS News makes a similar, erroneous assumption when it comes to public perceptions of Islam. Although Americans believe they are better informed about Islam than they were five […]
If you haven't read this already, then you should -- a U.S. soldier set's Rep. John Murtha and his supporters straight in The Washington Post.