The Washington Post's Sunday "Book World" section published two book reviews today offering some notice and praise for new books by New York Times reporters/authors. 

One was a review of recently departed New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer and his new America-bashing book "Overthrow." Julia Sweig oozed: "Kinzer's narrative abounds with unusual anecdotes, vivid description and fine detail, demonstrating why he ranks among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling, especially for those on the left." She loved his book "Bitter Fruit" on American intervention in Guatemala. (Short summary: Kinzer was  against it.) He's a raving leftist, but Times top editor Bill Keller still insists they don't run a liberal newsroom over there.

Matt Drudge has linked to a Los Angeles Times article by Robin Abcarian about Katie Couric's perpetual  association with the P-word: "perky." She is NOT happy with the word.

A spokesman for Couric, who declined to be interviewed for this story, said he thinks the word has attached to her like a limpet because of simple journalistic laziness. "It's an incomplete depiction of a versatile multidimensional success story," said Matthew Hiltzik.

Following up on a piece in the New York Observer, Abcarian quotes Connie Chung complaining about the G-word ("gravitas") as sexist. (Earth to Connie: if you didn't want to be stuck with allegedly demeaning  labels, you should have told Dan Rather that there was NO way you were co-anchoring from Tonya Harding's skating rink.) Here's how it goes:

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On the Friday edition of Hannity & Colmes, liberal co-host Alan Colmes inadvertedly used the word "whore" when discussing the stripper who accused several members of the Duke lacrosse team of raping her. Colmes has been one of her staunchest defenders, at least publicly. The following is what he asked Shawn Cunningham, a student at North Carolina Central:

ALAN COLMES: Shawn let me begin with you. Did you know whore or know of her through friends, what can you tell us about this person?

Colmes continued his question without stopping as if he didn't know he made the slip. Ironically, his next question addressed people who have also gave her a condescending name and has not mentioned her in another fashion. The mention that she is a "student" and a "mother of two" went without educating the audience she once stole a cab from a taxi driver:

ALAN COLMES: You know they keep referring to her in all the stories as a "stripper", as opposed to a student, she's also a mother of two, it seems like they can't get away from that word stripper, they don't really represent the entirety of who she is.

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