Or the closest thing to it. It seems that blogger Catherine Seipp has gotten into a blogospheric tussle with New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston. Apparently Johnston chided Seipp for revealing on her blog and in a National Review Online article that a Times reporter (not Johnston) had contacted her regarding an article on […]
I must confess that I'm not the least bit surprised to find that the New York Times-owned Boston Globe only calls for the public to respect religious beliefs as long as those beliefs and believers aren't Christian. Eugene Volokh points out (first link) that when the topic was Andres Serrano's famous "artwork" "Piss Christ," or […]
Editor & Publisher is running an article on the controversial cartoons below and it contains this little gem from Associated Press executive editor Jill Carroll: Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor, said the news cooperative has long withheld images it deemed offensive, such as photos and video of beheadings. "We have a very longstanding policy of […]
I published 3 of the forbidden Jyllands-Posten cartoons earlier today. Since then I have read a couple of dissenting views of people I respect who argue that the publishing (and re-publishing) the cartoons is merely an effort to goad Muslims into acting on their base instincts. Hugh Hewitt likens the cartoons below to a Tom […]
One of the cornerstones of Western civilization is freedom of speech and of the press. A free press won't stay that way for long if it cannot criticize the world's second-largest religion. So, as a sign of solidarity with Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Here are a few of the blasphemous Mohammed cartoons. Michelle Malkin notes that […]
On Monday, the front page of The San Diego Union-Tribune carried a front-page story on ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt's injuries from an IED attack in Iraq. Slow news day? Or is it really that journalists are better than you hoi polloi? If I were in charge -- and it […]
The New York Times report today on yesterday's 72-25 cloture vote on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court contains the term: "filibuster." We have the Times filibuster definition courtesy of editorial page editor Gail Collins. When a cloture motion was made to move the nomination to a vote, Senator Frist voted […]
So, it should come as little surprise that he felt the need to explain it to you. The latest Census Bureau report shows median prices for new residences sold in December fell 1.5 percent from the previous month to $221,800. Half of the homes sold for more than the median, the rest for less. Well, […]
I watched "Fox News Watch" last night. The program is the Fox News Channel's media watchdog program and is unfortunately only 30 minutes long. If it were longer, I'd probably have even more ammunition proving media critic Neal Gabler, an Eric Alterman acolyte, to be at the very least hopelessly misinformed and at worse a […]
Helen Thomas, a left-wing opinion columnist, didn't get called on again in yesterday's press conference. Turns out Bush made a good call, because the moonbat was going to ask a dumb question.