Chris Matthews’ line on Zarqawi’s death yesterday—”he’s dead as Julius Caesar”—was ten times as poetic as President Bush’s: “Zarqawi has met his end.” And Bush’s writers had more advance warning than Matthews’s. I gather the line comes from Malone on…
I spent a couple days in New York city this week, including an obligatory meeting with a pseudo-friend. If you don’t live in New York, you might not know what a pseudofriend is. New York is full of them. These…
Best ad so far is Adidas’s Jose + 10 ad, all in Spanish, featuring a kid playing sandlot soccer with a bunch of stars… blogged here from Singapore.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. urged SUNY New Paltz grads to stick to their guns and have courage. Here is a simple test of the Times courage. Stephen Walt and Kaavya Viswanathan are both Harvard authors who published the most significant writing…
I notice that rightwingers are upset about Arthur M. Sulzberger Jr.’s first commencement speech, a couple weeks back at New Paltz. In which he embraced liberal values. No! I thought he made a pretty good point: When I graduated from…
Breathtaking is the only word for the splendid coverage that reporter Liel Liebovitz has been doing in The Jewish Week on the idea wars over Israel in the U.S. and U.K. Liebovitz doesn’t seem to agree wholly with Israel’s critics….
In the cable-news battle over the al-Zarqawi death, CNN has been tops today, by demonstrating real journalistic values—i.e., a little honest detachment and analysis. To its great credit, the network aired an interview with Nir Rosen, author of In the…
A friend who attended the Times Magazine panel on Iraq coverage last Sunday (which was reported in the Observer) tells me she was stunned to hear Times Baghdad correspondent Dexter Filkins describe how few reporters from countries beside the U.K….