I like National Review Online. I've met Ramesh Ponnuru and he's a great guy. But yesterday they they did something evil. In promoting a John J. Miller article reviewing Sen. Barbara Boxer's new novel (it's best used when you run out of toilet paper), they ran this piece of promo art. Simply said, this graphic […]
It happens at newspapers large and small and Tuesday's Bakersfield Californian details its own case of journalistic malpractice. Before she was fired Oct. 17 for plagiarism and fabrication, former Bakersfield Californian reporter Nada Behziz signed her name to 96 stories. A Californian investigation shows more than a third contain a variety of serious problems including […]
A couple of links for those with a continuing interest in the truth. The White House came out today with a point-by-point refutation of the New York Times editorial I took a whack at earlier today. I'm quickly becoming convinced that there isn't a single honest liberal on the Times editorial board. Honest liberals do […]
The New York Times editorial page (unsurprisingly) goes to bat for revisionist Democrats with this silliness in today's paper. The Times charges, that President Bush is the one rewriting history, not their Democrat allies. Mr. Bush says everyone had the same intelligence he had - Mr. Clinton and his advisers, foreign governments, and members of […]
Here's a couple of things that you should read in order to become a more informed person. First, this piece from Norman Podhoretz on who is really lying about Iraq. Second, this Q&A from Sunday's Union-Tribune with Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom on education in America.
You'd think that, in the wake of big disgraces like Mary Mapes and Jayson Blair and all of the other little disgraces -- like the NBC reporter canoeing through ankle-deep water, that mainstream journalists would be a little more ... chastened when throwing stones at blogs. What separates the Union-Tribune and other mainstream newspapers from […]
A month or two back I pointed out an article about union-hired temporary workers who were working eight-hour days outside in the hot sun of Las Vegas picketing WalMart. The union temps were being paid less than what they would've earned working at WalMart, and the vast majority of the WalMart employees worked inside the […]
CNN/The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz had book-peddling fraud Mary Mapes on this morning, and to say that her performance was pathetic may be the understatement of the year. Hopefully, Mapes will now quickly disappear from public view -- I was sick of her a year ago. Mapes was followed by Powerlineblog.com's Scott Johnson and Salon's […]
Drudge is reporting that DNC Chairman Howard Dean refused to appear alongside his RNC counterpart Ken Mehlman on this morning's "Meet the Press" on NBC. As Drudge points out, such heads-up interviews have been common in the past, with Dean's predecessor doing it five times -- just on "Meet the Press"! Which brings up the […]
Let me start out by saying that any journalist -- or anyone else for that matter -- who uses "meshing" as a way to determine whether any document is authentic or not should be cast out into the wilderness to the sound of the rending of garmets and the gnashing of teeth. Yet, former CBS […]