The Washington Post's Dana Milbank has been chastized by his bosses at the paper after he showed up on MSNBC Monday night wearing a bright-orange hunting vest and cap. Ombudsman Deborah Howell addresses the issue in her column this week: From reader Eric Welch: "Does Dana Milbank's wearing of a bright orange hat and vest […]
I guess it really shouldn't come as a big surprise, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that the RIAA -- the record companies' lobbying group -- is floating the legal position that making backup copies of CDs you own or ripping the CDs to an Ipod or other MP3 player is not fair use. […]
When last we heard from NBC "news analyst" and "The West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell he was going ape during an appearance on MSNBC with John O'Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame. Today O'Donnell appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show to defend his silly article on the Huffington Post that Dick Cheney was […]
Just about every teacher has said it at one point in time or another: "There's no such thing as a stupid question." It's a lie. There are stupid questions and there are stupid answers, and then there's this gem from the reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times who broke the story. Click here to play […]
I'm hopeful that the Muslims will stop rioting over these rather tame cartoons so that I can stop chastising the media for its failure to print them. It's a rare day when I find myself in agreement with "Fox News Watch's" Neal Gabler, who on Saturday's show called the newspapers and broadcast outlets that refused […]
Over at Slate they have a little explainer on hunting etiquette and it's quickly apparent that the headline writer didn't read the story. First, the headline and subhed: Does Dick Cheney Know How To Hunt? What the veep needs to learn about shooting quail. And now the story: On Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally […]
Most journalists are liberal -- that's no shocker to anyone who reads this blog or a daily newspaper for that matter. However, one of the tenets of American journalism continues to be that journalists set aside their biases and do their best to try and be fair and objective. Unfortunately for the Washington Post's White […]
Apparently a lot of prominent conservatives (read: not me) are getting e-mails from outraged liberals regarding comments made at CPAC by bomb-thrower Ann Coulter. Again, for the record, I don't like her. This e-mail campaign is being spurred on by admitted liar David Brock's Media Matters -- but you'd think that at least one conservative […]
For some reason this story didn't make it online, but as you may know the San Diego Union-Tribune is one of the majority of American papers that have refused to run the controversial Muhammed cartoons. The following is editor Karin Winner's explanation that appeared in Tuesday's paper. Karin Winner, editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, […]
Well, it didn't take long for The New York Times to demonstrate that their policy of not offending religious believers was a bunch of bolshevik storytelling. Yesterday's Times, in a "Critic's notebook" analysis piece on the Muhammed cartoons controversy followed policy by not using any of the "blasphemous" drawings. Instead, they again ran the "artwork" […]