Wisconsin Newspaper Gets Burned on Memorial Day Homeless-Vet Story
June 5th, 2006 12:08 PM
The Capital Times ran a front page story on Memorial Day that was the perfect way for a newspaper to celebrate our military heroes; the cookie cutter foreign war vet who "can't get a job" despite 4.6% unemployment story. Oh yeah, and of course he's homeless. Well, actually he made the story up. And the checks and balances of the editorial process in today's skeptical journalism climate meant…
Is Osama Reading Left-wing Blogs
May 30th, 2006 4:38 PM
Does Osama bin Laden read the work of left-wing media figures and bloggers? It's quite possible, argues Brendan O'Neill:When Al Jazeera broadcast Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape in January, it provoked the same sense of déjà vu as Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, recently published by the leftist publishing house Verso.The book is a collection of every public…
