The NYT’s Unintentionally Revealing Profile of Eric Holder
On Sunday, the New York Times published what Power Line’s Scott Johnson rightly calls a hagiographic profile of Attorney General Eric Holder in the context of his decision to bring 9/11 co-conspirators to New York to stand trial. That decision has come under unrelenting criticism, of course. But the Times piece portrays Holder as an-above-the-fray [...]
The Scozzafava Scandals
Ordinarily, I dote on every word writ by Rich Galen, cybercolumnist extraordinaire, proprietor of Mullings, my favorite non-blog blog (neg-blog?) Alas, I think he has really gone off the Newtonian end on the NY-23 race.
In today’s Mullings, Rich writes the following:
The Conservatives nominated a guy named Doug Hoffman who does not live in the [...]
More ACORN Scandals
Two big stories this morning:
First, Pamela Geller has an exclusive story on a Black Republican in Jacksonville, Florida that had heard in February of 2009 that ACORN was paying three dollars for each vote you could register, and subsequently registered voters for Acorn there, but that the group threw out her votes and fired her [...]
The Rest of the Story
In recent weeks, the Obama administration has been mired in setbacks and scandals. One of these, at least, has not yet received the attention it deserves–that is, the administration’s effort to enlist artists in support of its policy agenda.
Most likely, you’re generally aware of the story. It was broken by Patrick [...]
More thoughts on bad news reporting
John’s thoughts about bad news reporting as bad business prompted some thoughts of my own. In 2005, Scott and I spoke in Washington, DC at a Claremont Institute event on blogging. In my presentation, I discussed the ways in which the MSM might respond to the emerging challenge posed by new media. [...]
KennedyCare?
At an airport gate yesterday, I could hear CNN’s coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death–an event that looms much larger in the DC-media complex than it does anywhere else. Now the Democrats reportedly are readying to push their health care bill with a “win one for Teddy” theme.
This strikes me as pretty dumb. Kennedy [...]
