The sad news of the deaths of the trapped miners is the most important part of this story, not the media problems inherent in its reporting. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the miners. Mining (like … Continue reading →
I haven’t written yet about the controversy over government wiretaps designed to eavesdrop on conversations with terrorists. That’s partly because so many have covered the story already, and partly because I like to do a lot of reading on a … Continue reading →
Omri Ceren is none too pleased with the LA Times. After reading his post, I doubt you will be, either. I haven’t read the full backup materials to which Ceren links (it’s a book-length Strategic Studies Institute document), just a … Continue reading →
I’m visiting relatives who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, a publication that isn’t ordinarily my favorite reading matter. But whenever I’m here I can’t resist the temptation to pick it up, despite the fact that I know … Continue reading →
Well, that’s good to hear: We’re not stenographers, we’re journalists says Philip Dixon, former managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and currently chairman of the Howard University Department of Journalism. Dixon was criticizing the actions of the press in the … Continue reading →
Via Don Surber: It seems that Michael Moore owns 2,000 shares of Halliburton. Here’s a summary of the source, a book entitled “Do As I Say, (Not As I Do)” by Peter Schweizer. And Moore is by no means the … Continue reading →
I’ve been looking forward to the sight, and here it is: Saddam on trial. I watched a bit of coverage, enough to assure me that Saddam was playing his outraged defiant role, as expected, and that the judges are among … Continue reading →
It occurred to me today that the folks at the NY Times may in fact be suffering from depression, and I mean that in the clinical sense. Why the sudden diagnosis? Well, Captain’s Quarters alerted me to this editorial about … Continue reading →
In case you missed the story the first time round, Richard Landes of Second Draft has a post at Solomonia on the misidentification of Tuvia Grossman by the press. Grossman, an American Jew studying in Israel, was beaten by a … Continue reading →
After reading Martha Gellhorn’s remarkably prescient 1961 Atlantic Monthly article about the Palestinians, I wanted to read more of her work. I recently and serendipitously happened upon a copy of her Travels with Myself and Another (the “other” being short-term … Continue reading →
Rand Simberg has a wonderful fisking of unrependent CBS producer Mary Mapes’ self-serving new book. Mapes’ head is bloody, but unbowed. Simberg’s post is very very funny. Mapes herself, on the other hand, makes me very very sad, and very … Continue reading →
Captain’s Quarters reports, (via this Washington Post article) that al Qaeda is now skipping the media middle man, and debuting its own internet video news site. I guess even al Jazeera isn’t good enough for al Qaeda–everyone seems to be … Continue reading →