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Today's journalistic malpractice comes to us courtesy of the "Today" show (via Newsbusters). In a little intro to an interview with Chevron CEO David O'Reilly, "Today" broke down the costs of a gallon of gas -- sorta. You can follow the previous link to see a couple of the images, but these are the "facts" […]

I'm going to take issue with one line in today's Union-Tribune editorial on the NSA phone database. Earlier this year, when it was disclosed that the NSA was intercepting calls to and from foreign countries, the president told the nation that the program did not cover calls within the United States. We now know that […]

Last year, I noted how the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters show has this tendency -- probably as a result of lawyers -- of assuming that they can keep information about various basic science facts out of the public domain by just "bleeping" out certain facts. Well, they've done it again. The latest show featuring "exploding pants" […]

Because a lot of people in the media seem to have forgotten, and far too many Democrat partisans don't seem to care anymore, here's a brief reminder about what we're really talking about when there's a bunch of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the NSA's surveillance programs. I wanted to take a couple of […]

The Union-Tribune has an interesting article on attendance figures in sports. Maybe this will put a halt to the guessing game that Hoy senior likes to play at San Diego State basketball games. Then again, probably not.

Back in January I lamented the fact that Miramax had failed to release a Widescreen version of "The Great Raid," the story of the rescue of American POWs from a Japanese prison camp on the Philippines. Well, today I went out and spent some of my OT money and came across the widescreen version on […]

You can often find some comedy in the New York Times corrections section, and today is no different. An article and a picture caption yesterday about the funeral of Sgt. Jose Gomez of Queens, who was killed on April 20 in Iraq, referred incorrectly to the Army representative who comforted his mother. She was a […]

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I was walking through the composing area in the newsroom yesterday when I came across this story on one of the Union-Tribune's opinion page headlined: "The Boy Scouts' exclusion policies." Intrigued, I read the story and while the headline may be technically accurate, it doesn't reflect the tone of the column by James J. Kilpatrick, […]

The U.S. Commission has come out with its annual report on International Religious Freedom. [PDF format] It should come as no surprise that "our friends the Saudis" come out rather poorly. I'm understating it. Although the government has publicly taken the position—reiterated again in early 2006—that it permits non-Muslims to worship in private, the guidelines […]