Crisis Over: Boys Fail Slightly Less Than We Thought
A train wreck of reporting and editing is displayed in Study Casts Doubt On the 'Boy Crisis' by the Washington Post's Jay Mathews on the front page. It's based on a report by a think tank called Education Sector, and tries to refute years of research showing boys' collective disadvantage in education. The logic of this report is illustrated in the following quote from the report itself, written…
WaPo's Shales: Rather Was 'Very Activist Anchor' [I'll Say
CBS radio news just ran an item on the departure of Dan Rather. There was a surprising bit of candor in which CBS reported that Rather had "expressed frustration, feeling he'd been shelved by the network."There was also a bit of - presumably - unintentional humor. We were treated to a clip of the Washington Post's [very liberal] media critic Tom Shales informing us that Rather "was a very…
Is Al-Jazeera Less Biased than the New York Times
If there were great news out of Iraq, which media outlet would be the least likely to report it?a. An anti-American news network from Qatarb. A terrorist-run television station in Lebanon c. The New York Timesd. The Washington PostIf you answered “a” or “b,” you were contradicted by last week’s coverage. Some absolutely magnificent news did come out of Iraq last Thursday, yet, hard as it might…
