Des Moines Register Publishes, Pulls Map of Guarded and Unguarded Scho

Tom Blumer
March 28th, 2013 8:40 PM
Apparently the journalistic disease known as obsessive-compulsive interactive map publishing is spreading. Late last year, Gannett's Journal News in White Plains, New York created a firestorm when it published an interactive map of gun permit holders in two counties north of New York City, obviously giving criminals, depending on how they target victims, the identity of places to rob to get…
 

Des Moines Register Editor Backs Columnist's Absurd Claim That His Wis

Tom Blumer
January 8th, 2013 10:49 AM
The first rule for those who have dug themselves into rhetorical holes is: Stop digging. As noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul ignored that rule on January 5 by claiming that his December 30 column -- which, among other things, advocated "(tying) Mitch McConnell and John Boehner ... to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag(ging) them…