Scott Rosenberg has an interesting take: don’t define and protect “journalists” — protect “journalism.” I’ve been asked to defend the tenet “We are all journalists now.” But there are so many questions in those five words! Who is we? What
The New York Times is letting Charles M. Blow write again. They’re not doing him any favors. Here’s his lede: Racist. Tea Party. Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask. Probably best to stop
Wonder if this report is worth 25 cents to billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg: Times Square unclas report –
Amazing but true: the Los Angeles Times, which hardly ever met a Democrat it didn’t want to endorse, today has decided to remain neutral in the California primary. On the Democratic side, we find that we’re no fans of incumbent
As a proud former staffer of Time Magazine, where I spent 16 mostly terrific years working with some of the finest writers and journalists who ever graced the business — you’re not going to get any snark from me about
You have to admit that, even against stiff competition, Contessa Brewer is the ideal public face of the asylum known as MSNBC. With her earnest, slightly confused demeanor, her overweening sense of moral self-righteousness, her imperviousness to logic, facts and
To those of us who attended college in the late sixties and early seventies, the killings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 remain indelibly fixed in memory. They came at a particularly turbulent time in the country’s history,
Sad but true: Bill Moyers Journal has shuffled off the air and into the archives of PBS and the
You don’t have to be a big-time MSM journalist to laugh along with the mandarin class. So go ahead, little people, enjoy some yucks. Or not, as the case may be: [youtube aYsGwLWqWI4 nolink]
It looks like the end is near for the dinosaurs formerly known as the news divisions of the Big Three — at least two of them anyway. Hard on the heels of layoffs at CBS came a serious ax-wielding at
Just imagine. Production slip-ups happen all the time, but still… Perhaps you can help the Post distinguish between Malcom X and the President of the United States.
That would be Ross Douthat of the New York Times, the center-right Op-Ed columnist who looks like Attila the Hun next to his allegedly conservative stablemate, the pathetic accommodationist, David Brooks. Writing about the most recent episode of South Park,
How to lose friends and influence people: Lenny Bruce, as played by Dustin Hoffman, on the moral evil of censorship, and what it does to the tongue of a free society. Something to think about as we move toward “Everybody
In light of the news about Comedy Central’s astounding cowardice in the face of some veiled threats from Troglogyte Central, my thoughts turned to this movie, and not just because I wrote the sequel: [youtube 0bdnUM_2m_k nolink] Forget the famous
Except to say that I never thought I would see the day when Americans would so meekly accede to threats, or even hints of violence, this news from Comedy Central is hardly surprising anymore. From the Hollywood Reporter: ‘Muhammad’ now
If you ever have been, are now, or are hoping to become a reporter in the future, this video ought to make your blood boil: [youtube FaBk1dUF9nM nolink] It’s not just the cop’s rudeness and bullying, although that’s bad enough.
Why does Frank Rich still have a job? Not only is Rich the last and least interesting of the Op-Ed columnists of the New York Times — and, given that his competition includes Maureen Dowd and Paul “The End is
Hard to know what to make of this piece by Eliott C. McLaughlin — except, of course, that it pretty much sums up the state of journalistic thinking in the MSM these days, which includes a reflexive disdain for constitutional
Over at Salon, that’s the question on editrix Joan Walsh’s lips as she continues to believe the MSM alternate-reality view of the Tea Parties instead of her own lyin’ eyes. Naturally, she begins with that CBS/New York Times poll that’s
Courtesy of Scott Johnson, one of the stalwarts of the indispensible Power Line blog, comes this illuminating correspondence: My name is Greg Farrell and I would like you to know I have been exchanging emails challenging Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew
You be the judge. Remember, the evocations of the left’s beloved, if slightly late, Soviet Union, are coming from a liberal columnist at the Washington Post: They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police
For the Mainstream Media, the news is not good. A new Pew Research Center study is out today as part of its ongoing Project for Excellence in Journalism. Here’s the headline: NEWS EXECUTIVES, SKEPTICAL OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, SEE OPPORTUNITY IN
Coolest video ever: This is San Francisco on April 14, 1906, the city of William Randolph Hearst and the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Morning Call, the Daily Evening Bulletin, of Jack London and Frank Norris, of
In his latest column, Bill O’Reilly thinks it just might be: While many Americans believe the national press is biased toward the left, a more damning charge is now being debated: Are U.S. media outlets actually corrupt? Those who believe
It seems the lovely and talented Rachel Maddow – whose chief claim to fame, besides her sneer, is …what, exactly? – has got her Rhodes Scholar knickers in a twist over the famous O’Keefe/Giles ACORN tapes. She’s seized upon a
