Comments shouldn't be too "JOOOOO!"-y this week, right? Observers seem determined to imbue Abramson’s dismissal with Some Kind of Meaning. Like everything else of alleged import that occurs within the … [Read more...]
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‘5 Disturbing Reasons Not to Trust the News (From a Reporter)’
Two new books, two conflicting takes on Kitty Genovese story
NYPost: The people of Kew Gardens — before that, a relatively crime-free neighborhood where few bothered locking their doors — were referred to in the press as … [Read more...]
‘The 4 Most Outrageous Lies in Robert Redford’s New Pro-Terrorist Movie’
I'll be writing about The Weathermen and The Company You Keep in Taki's tomorrow. For now, here's John Boot: The film … [Read more...]
Read the newspaper upside down
Like I keep saying: The real story is almost always in the comments. That's why the New York Times doesn't like them. … [Read more...]
‘…the Times keeps asking the reader to be surprised by something that is not a surprise at all…’
What gay agenda? Chairman of giant McClatchy newspaper chain comes out as homosexual
The fact that child molesters ‘get away with it for so long’ contains a shred of good news
It means that we're still so horrified, shamed and disgusted by child sex abuse that we hesitate to even discuss it or contemplate it. When we lose that natural … [Read more...]
NY Times offers unpaid internships after reporting on their questionable legality
If you are reading this, we are in New York City
If you grew up in the 70s, like me, New York City was the most horrible place on earth. Taxi Driver. The Warriors. Little Murders. The Out-of-Towners. Midnight Cowboy. Panic in Needle Park. The Taking … [Read more...]
Warren Kinsella has a newspaper column and I don’t (part of a continuing series)
Sunday evening UPDATE: Since Kinsella cites the NYT ("approvingly," one might almost say!) in his column, I hope someone forwards [Read more...]
The trouble with newspapers, explained in one paragraph
Rick McGinnis reviews Page One: Inside the New York Times: At one point in the film we see Carr and his Media Desk colleagues standing around talking about the end, … [Read more...]