In the wake of most Western media outlets cowardice in refusing to publish the infamous Mohammed, students at the University of Saskatchewan have followed in professional media's footsteps by refusing to publish the Mohammed cartoons, but showing far less concern that they might offend Christians. A newspaper cartoon targeting religion has once again sprung into […]
There's an old journalistic axiom that dog-bites-man isn't news, but man-bites-dog is news. Why? Because it's the unexpected, that people want to know about. Associated Press business reporter Sandy Shore, and every editor above her, have forgotten this basic tenet. Sidelined in the merger game since its failed bid for MCI Inc., Qwest Communications could […]
I listen to Hugh Hewitt's radio show when I get the opportunity, which honestly isn't all the time because the beginning of my work day and the beginning of Hugh's show often coincide. But I started work a little later than usual on Thursday and got the opportunity to hear Hugh interview Glenn Reynolds (aka […]
Via Best of the Web Today we have this funny bit from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who is in Australia promoting her book, "Are Men Necessary?" The newspaper is allowing men to post brief, singles-ad type comments in an attempt to woo the saucy Ms. Dowd ... and this one is by far […]
I've often been curious as to how The New York Times goes about selecting which letters to publish on its editorial page. Often the majority of the letters represent a decidedly (and at times extremely) left-wing worldview, but it's impossible to know if this is because the vast majority of the letters they receive are […]
When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes a particularly outrageous assertion, it seems to find its way out from behind the TimesSelect curtain and onto the rest of the Internet. On Jan. 30, Krugman made just such an assertion, but to see the claim in a simpler light, check out Donald Luskin's analogy: Try […]
It's a rare day that you get conservative talk show host Bill Bennett and liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz agreeing on just about anything, but there's one subject that can bring even those two together -- criticizing the cowardly American media. What has happened? To put it simply, radical Islamists have won a war of […]
Today's New York Times lead editorial takes President Bush and Congress to task for failing to do something about a looming crisis with many private pension plans. Unfortunately, but naturally, the Times fails to offer a plan of its own. One is left wondering how best to fix the problem, and the Times is silent. […]
Bruce Fierstein over at The New York Observer is channeling the New York Times new public editor Ali bin-Zabar. Ali: This is awful. Horrible. What about the gay wedding announcements? Debbie Dear Ms. T: As you’re no doubt aware of the Koran’s position on homosexuality, let me be clear here: In the future, there will […]
Over the weekend, 15 people were killed in Nigeria and another 11 in Libya as the engineered violence in response to the rather tame Muhammed cartoons continued to claim lives. In a case of bad timing, my paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, published an incredibly lame justification for not having published any of the Danish […]