More and more newspapers are starting to "get" blogging. The Washington Post is probably among the leaders in the mainstream media to really embrace this new form of media. Check out any of their articles online and there is a box with a link to Technorati and and how many blogs are linking to that […]
Let me just say that I'm not outraged about The New York Times' revelation that the NSA has been eavesdropping on international phone calls without a court order. It's unclear whether or not this is legal, Fox News had on author and former investigative reporter Ronald Kessler who claims that it is legal. However, the […]
Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman is going to be on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday and, in remarks released early to hype the show, Freeman appears to be anything but politically correct. “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?†Freeman asks Wallace. After noting there is no “white history month,†he says, “I […]
I've made this point repeatedly regarding the New York Times editorial page, but it applies to many other newspaper editorialists -- they are partisan, not principled. For the past couple years this has produced hypocrisy on the issue of judicial filibusters. Both the Times and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- among others -- have exposed themselves […]
John Fund has a blurb in today's OpinionJournal.com Political Diary (fourth item) on the Grossmont Union High School District here in eastern San Diego County. If you want to know what's going on in that district, Fund's piece is a horrible place to start. Let's start with the factual errors. Nonsense, says Ron Nehring, the […]
OK, that would really never happen because Rove is a partisan political animal, right? Well, it happens all the time -- if you're a Democrat. Nope, no media bias here.
You know editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant is a liberal -- that's not news. But Oliphant has joined the loony left with his Tuesday cartoon in which doctors give Bush a face transplant. Want to take a wild guess whose face he gets? If you guessed Hitler's, you're right! These Bush=Hitler comparisons that are all the […]
I like to point out that mediocrity seems to rise to the top -- or at least near the top -- in the newspaper business. Today's evidence of that is the editor who assigned/allowed-to-be-published this story. All you need to read is the headline and summary graf. Box hits child as toy store shelf falls […]
From Mark Goldblatt's review of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's latest bile in book form: (Since Dowd's experience figures so prominently throughout her book, allow me a personal aside here: Why are women so often drawn to grand, totalizing theories to make sense of their individual regrets? I'm roughly Dowd's age and have never […]
I've been playing videogames since the venerable Atari 2600 hit the market. In our house, you got to open one present on Christmas Eve -- and my mother suggested that I open the small box and not the larger, more Atari 2600 shaped box. The small box contained a Space Invaders game -- which made […]