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To Protect Obama, a Journalist Excuses Lies
Cohen even proposes a rationale few philosophers, or journalism professors, would embrace: that emotional truth trumps intellectual truth.
Law Firm Dems Hired to Probe Attorney Firings Gave Heavily to Dem Camp
This is a developing story, so there's room for it to play out a bit, but the law firm congressional Democrats are hiring to help plow through the U.S. attorney firings, Arnold & Porter, has a history of heavy donations towards Democrats.From the last two paragraphs of a March 28 Associated Press story:[House Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers , meanwhile, has signed
a contract…
LAT's Pat Tillman Coverage Exceeds Sandy Berger Theft Case By Nearly F
Since April of 2004, the Los Angeles Times has published over 20,000 words on the death and the controversy surrounding the death of NFL star Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. The word total includes 20 articles, editorials, and op-eds.Meanwhile, since July of 2004, the Times has published less than 4,200 words on the story of former Clinton security advisor Sandy Berger pilfering classified documents…
WaPo Accentuates the Negative in McCaffrey Iraq Report
As an NBC military affairs analyst, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey is a familar face to many Americans. McCaffrey also serves as an adjunct professor at West Point, and in that capacity recently wrote an eight-page paper on the situation in Iraq based on a recent visit there. In today's Washington Post, there appears an article by Thomas Ricks, WaPo's Pentagon correspondent, reporting on the…
Media Support 'Freedom of Choice' that Would Kill Secret Ballot
Networks ignore union revival; could it be because media workers are unionized?