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I've been keeping a close eye over at Poynter.org to see what fallout, if any, there is from Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to call it quits. While going through the letters, I came across one from Dan Walsh and immediately thought: Correct! He's got it! Re -- Young readers of op-ed pages. Memo to […]

The Associated Press ran a story on the wires late yesterday on Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to quit his cushy job [I characterize it that way because I'd love to have it] because publisher David Copley spiked his Monday column. If you've ever wanted evidence that the mainstream media tilts left, this article has […]

Today's Wall Street Journal rips into the International Committee of the Red Cross over the leak earlier this week of their "report" to The New York Times. If you read my dissection of the Times story earlier this week, then many of the points made by the Journal will be familiar to you. Still, it's […]

I must confess that I was a little wary of a book about the aftermath of the Iraq War written by someone who actually acknowledges being an "art critic." By the time I actually began reading Steven Vincent's "In the Red Zone: A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq," any reservations I had quickly vanished. […]

The Union-Tribune's often infuriating liberal columnist James Goldsborough has quit. The news broke late yesterday afternoon and there was a lot of bewilderment in the newsroom. Goldsborough said the reason he was given after the fact is that the column, about why Jewish voters overwhelmingly cast their presidential ballots for John Kerry, was "offensive." "The […]

I must confess that I don't watch much of Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. But somehow, I don't buy a whole lot of this. OJR: How would you describe yourself politically on the liberal-to-conservative spectrum? How important do you think it is for MSM to be transparent on their political affiliations? KO: I'm not political. I […]

Some poor guy jumped off the Empire State Building last week to his death. Today's New York Times has a soft feature piece on the history of jumpers and also how they've been covered. One item caught my attention as I read the piece. That is why the city has a kind of procedure for […]

Today's New York Times has a much-touted article (it was teased earlier in the day on Drudge) on prisoner "abuse" at Guantanamo. Let me start out by pointing out what the Times fails to note. All of the individuals incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay were captured on the battlefield bearing arms against the United States. They […]

Just returned from watching the new Nicholas Cage film "National Treasure." Overall, it's a really fun movie and worth checking out. Unlike many of today's action-adventure movies, the language is incredibly clean. You never really miss the standard slew of cuss words, and after it's over it's actually kind of refreshing. When will Hollywood filmmakers […]

Today's New York Post has an article by the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes on the emergence of an oil-hungry China. The bad news: don't expect gas prices in the $1.50 a gallon range any time soon (if ever again). The good news, it should now be obvious that the Kyoto Global Warming protocol had little […]