This Slate article makes the point that there’s a lot we don’t know, and need to know, about Erdely’s article and the “research” behind it, as well as the decisions made by editors at the publication Rolling Stone. Another issue … Continue reading →
The line between politically motivated killings and mental illness can be a thin one. Absent an obvious problem like untreated schizophrenia featuring delusions, what does a vague history of emotional troubles mean? Not much, really. How many completely well-adjusted people … Continue reading →
The WaPo’s editorial board keeps hammering home on this issue: …[I]t’s important to know the reaction of those Cubans who have put their lives on the line to fight for democracy and human rights. Many have supported engagement and opposed … Continue reading →
Here’s an update for those who are still interested in the continuing subsequent unraveling of the UVA rape story. It has now been revealed that the emails supposedly sent from Jackie’s attacker to Jackie’s buddy Randall/Ryan after the rape were … Continue reading →
Lately the WaPo has been backing off from its kneejerk approval of the Obama administration, but this editorial along those lines is especially strong: IN RECENT months, the outlook for the Castro regime in Cuba was growing steadily darker. The … Continue reading →
You have to hand it to “Jackie” of the Rolling Stone UVA story—she dedicated an awful lot of creative energy to her hoax. Although I suspect that on first telling her main motivation was to earn the attention, sympathy, and … Continue reading →
Well, at least Jessica Pressler and New York Magazine appear to have done a bit more fact-checking on this story than Erdely and Rolling Stone did on theirs. And yet, duped again: In the most recent edition of New York, … Continue reading →
When a liberal’s pushing it.
Continue reading →Even Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Stephen Glass combined couldn’t make this stuff up.
Continue reading →…all-too-frequently seems an oxymoron, as Mollie Hemingway documents in this Federalist article. Most readers of blogs on the right know this, and have known it for many years. Not only that, but bloggers and other pundits on the right have … Continue reading →
After reading this article in the WaPo, we can safely say that it now appears likely that UVA’s Jackie didn’t just lie about whether she was raped at a fraternity. She appears to have lied about almost everything connected with … Continue reading →
In the larger scheme of things, the TNR flap I wrote about Saturday is minor, although it’s part of a more major trend towards intellectually shallow, market-driven, youth-oriented, agenda-based, media. But I just couldn’t resist fisking this piece of apologia … Continue reading →