On Obama’s threats to the non-TARP Chrysler lenders?
You’ll hear the sound of crickets chirping from the press. “We have newspaper people on the payroll, don’t we?”
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A Savage banning
This news doesn’t surprise me at all, having had a taste of what passes for “freedom of speech” in France—and in Britain as well. The aptly named (although pseudonymous) Michael Savage has been banned in Britain. British Home Secretary Jacqui … Continue reading →
Elizabeth Edwards, woman scorned…
…writes a book. And it doesn’t tell a pretty tale. Husband John appears to be not just a liar, but a serial liar. Originally I was somewhat sympathetic to Ms. Edwards’s plight: political wife, fighting cancer, philandering husband. And I … Continue reading →
Roundup on Chrysler: where’s the outrage?
I keep thinking I’m cynical enough already, and can’t be surprised by politics and/or the MSM’s coverage of it any more. But I guess I still retain too much idealism, because the general lack of concern about the administration’s throwing … Continue reading →
Brooke’s a living doll
I’ve already confessed to a small but harmless addiction to the blog Go Fug Yourself, dedicated to otherwise-lovely stars and starlets (and aspiring starlets, and spawn of starlets) and their execrable fashion choices. Today what caught my eye was former … Continue reading →
What’s so funny about Obama?
Nothing.
Continue reading →Cronkite, opinion journalism, and a changing press: Part II
[NOTE: I decided it was high time for a repeat of this series (first posted in December of 2006) on how the press came to consider its function to be changing popular opinion rather than informing the public. Here’s the … Continue reading →
Look for the Union label—in the newpaper and auto industry meltdowns (and the Obama solution for the latter)
Unions have figured prominently in the talks concerning the fates of two moribund companies in two troubled American industries: the Boston Globe and Chrysler. The first dispute is happening without intervention from the federal government, while the second is proceeding … Continue reading →
Cronkite, opinion journalism, and a changing press: Part I (“to tell a conflicted people a higher truth”)
[NOTE: I decided it was high time for a repeat of this series (first posted in December of 2006) on how the press came to consider its function to be changing popular opinion rather than informing the public. Here’s the … Continue reading →
The Boston Globe vs. The New York Times—vs. the internet
The Boston Globe reports on its own stay of execution. The decision about its fate has been postponed till midnight tomorrow. One of the Globe’s many problems is that it seems to have made an error in calculating the value … Continue reading →
Obama’s Churchill “torture” quote
Yesterday I wrote a post about President Obama’s recent press conference use of the Churchill quote, “We don’t torture.” I mentioned that I’d Googled to find the article Obama mentioned, the one he’d been reading “about this,” but could find … Continue reading →
Souter’s successor?
It probably won’t mean a great deal in terms of the liberal/conservative makeup of the Supreme Court that Justice Souter has announced his retirement, and President Obama will get to replace him. Of course, it would have been a very … Continue reading →