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Regarding the WikiLeaks affair, I wish to associate myself publicly with the wise comments (posts below) of the Senators from the University of Chicago and UCLA. Let me give a concrete example of why they are correct about the value of secret government communication. A few months ago, I had the honor to meet Lord [...]
Archive for the ‘The wayward press’ Category
November 9th, 2010
The GOP has promised its base that it will defund the individual mandate, and it has promised health insurance companies that it will strengthen the mandate. Something has to give.
October 13th, 2010
The bee story has a back story, a little darker and less promising than it looked through the NYT story’s window. HT: Kevin Drum and an RBC commenter.
September 25th, 2010
Category: The wayward press, Uncategorized
A little fact-checking sometimes goes a long way.
September 18th, 2010
Jon Stewart’s 10/30 “Rally to Restore Sanity” has turned him into something he despises: a mainstream media creator of false equivalences. American politics hasn’t gone crazy: the Republican Party has.
September 17th, 2010
…and how about some of that famous New Yorker fact-checking? Tilley’s interest in science is noted in this delightful cover, and The New Yorker has published some excellent popular science, including environmental articles by John McPhee. But this week’s embarrassingly adulatory profile of James Dyson, which retails one technical howler after another, raises the question [...]
September 4th, 2010
Category: The wayward press, Watching Conservatives
Never thought I’d have to do this. Headline to post at TPM : Angle: Extending Unemployment Insurance ‘Doesn’t Benefit Anyone’ What Angle said, according to the same post: Shelley Berkeley and Harry Reid want to do is put a band-aid on this by extending unemployment, which really doesn’t benefit anyone. My italics in both. The [...]
August 26th, 2010
Matt Bai thinks that Social Security is in trouble because he can’t tell the difference between playing the lottery and owning Treasury Bills. He’s an easy mark for spin doctors.
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 [...]
