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My adventures fixing misquotation by the Daily Caller and then American Thinker.
Archive for the ‘Journalism (Online and Otherwise)’ Category
July 29th, 2010
Category: Energy and Environment, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), The wayward press
Spoiler alert: if this post doesn’t spoil your week, or worse, you and I don’t share the same reality. What makes human life worth living? Content, obviously: news, art, music, conversation – social intercourse in all media. What makes it possible? Food and drink, broadly defined: fresh water and all the plant and animal products [...]
June 29th, 2010
Check out Jonathan Cohn’s new blog, Citizen Cohn.
June 28th, 2010
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
After trashing Ezra Klein and David Weigel in a column on the demise of Journolist, Jeffrey Goldberg apparently received positive comments from unnamed reporters at the paper: This is not just sour grapes about the sudden rise of these untrained kids, though I have to think that some people in the building resent them for [...]
May 22nd, 2010
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
Just back from a house-party campaign event for Mickey Kaus’s Quixotic campaign against Barbara Boxer. I’m still not sure how Mickey figures that Democrats are supposed to win elections by annoying Latinos, union members, and Social Security recipients, but on several points he did manage to put the “Democrat” back in “contrarian Democrat” more than [...]
June 24th, 2009
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
The State, South Carolina’s dominant newspaper, had a collection of (barely printable) emails between Sanford and his honey six months ago, and didn’t publish
August 9th, 2008
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
Why are you even thinking about the election, or global warming, or Georgia, or the Olympics, when this complete-in-every-way story has broken? What more could you possibly want? Perhaps the entire future of journalism has been upstaged once and for all: Unrequited love Maybe requited love Cold case Cloning Sex slavery Role reversal (he’s the [...]
July 11th, 2008
Category: Blogging, Evolutionary psychology, History, Humour, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Literature, MSM (mainstream media), Woolgathering
Addison and Steele as proto-bloggers.
April 1st, 2008
Press TV (Iran’s Russia Today/Fox News official 24-hour propaganda channel) profiles John McCain. They’re not impressed: Iowa Senator Charles Grassley who was subject to McCain’s “I’m calling you a f****** jerk!” said in an interview that he was so upset by the tirade that he did not speak to him for two years. Many say [...]
