School for Scoundrels: NYT Teaches Reporters How to Destroy Records
September 16th, 2006 5:13 PM
The Fitzpatrick Plame investigation has spurred the New York Times into examining how their reporters conduct themselves. Apparently, the Gray Lady wants her staff to act more like terrorists and drug dealers. Reporters are being told to delete emails, destroy notes, and use disposable cell phones in order to stymie future investigations.
Double Standard on Personal Attacks: Ann Richards' 'Fun-Loving Spirit
September 14th, 2006 11:52 AM
For a media that likes to complain about the incivility and personal attacks that Republicans have supposedly injected into our politics over the past generation, the networks' reactions to former Texas Governor Ann Richards underscore journalists' partisan approach to what is fair and what is foul.In 1988, then-Texas state treasurer Richards laced her keynote address at the Democratic National…