The Sunday Telegraph of London wasn't blinded by the politics of its newsroom, like Time magazine was, and has wisely named Gen. David Petraeus as its "Man of the Year." He has been the man behind the US troop surge over the past 10 months, the last-ditch effort to end Iraq's escalating civil war by […]
Nation media writer Eric Alterman made an allegation in a column in that magazine that, well, I'll let you read it: When Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets died November 1, the New York Times repeated Tibbets's contention that "It would have been morally wrong if we'd have had [the atomic bomb] and not used it […]
In Cambridge, Mass., it turns out that supporting the troops is the same as supporting the war. Was it just too pro-war for Cambridge? A troop of Boy Scouts is wondering why their donation boxes meant for troops in Iraq were thrown out of polling stations last week. Election officials ordered the removal of donation […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune is running a series of articles on various members of the military in honor of Veterans Day. I encourage you to check out this article, with video, of Marine Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch (retired). Popaditch achieved a measure of fame when he was photographed smoking a cigar as a statue of […]
Mark Hemingway over at National Review Online makes a brief request at the end of a post about how Vietnam Vets were treated by the left about his father's search for a hero. Oh and by the way, if any of you reading this happen to be the student at CU in the early seventies […]
Longtime Los Angeles Times media writer David Shaw must be spinning in his grave after his successor Tim Rutten and his "four levels of editors" let this mistake-filled piece run in the paper last Saturday. Bob Owens, who has owned this story, goes through the mistakes here. Patterico has been e-mailing the Times public editor, […]
The Columbia Journalism Review got around to noticing that last week's New York Times report on the comments of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez vis a vis the media failed to make it into reporter David S. Cloud's piece. Cloud’s remarks left me with two questions. First, why didn’t he include any mention in his […]
The Washington Post editorial board -- liberal but not blinkered -- acknowledges that violence in Iraq is down. Don't hold your breath on an apology from Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The big news today on the covers of The New York Times and Washington Post is retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's attack on the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. That's the front page news, but that was only about half of Sanchez's remarks to the gathering of Military Reporters and Editors. In fact, […]
It's been more than two months since The New Republic's Baghdad Diarist, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, was exposed as a fraud, and the magazines editors have been silent. Why? Because they now know that Beauchamp is a liar and they don't want to expose the joke that is their credibility. Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee […]