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….
My friend Mim has submitted the following list of great spam pseudonyms: Peter Phoebe Wilma Gallegos Fran Patel Faustino Burkhart Marietta Molina Vergie Henry … and, last but not least, Stylianos Cuffie OK, now I can delete them all. This…
Ten days ago I praised Richard Engel’s beautiful and amazing story on NBC Nightly News about a Baghdad orphanage for girls whose parents had died because of the war we started. I was hardly alone. Last night Brian Williams said…
Today CBS News reports that Kimberly Dozier is headed home, talking “animatedly.” CBS has regularly covered the correspondent’s injury in Iraq, and the death of her two crew-members. I’m a little surprised by the silence surrounding anchor Bob Woodruff’s injuries…
The leftwing blogosphere welcomes Walter A. Davis, the brilliant new editor of MWCNews.net—Media With Conscience. Davis is a leftwing philosopher and author and former Catholic. Right now I’m reading his book about 9/11: Death’s Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since…
Yesterday when I got back from a hike there were several turkeys in my yard in the high grass. I let my dogs out of my car anyway—they can’t catch turkeys. I hadn’t figured that the poults have lately arrived,…
I’m collecting good pseudonyms from my spam because I think they are a literary achievement. As any author of fiction can tell you, coming up with names is tough. Here is a list of names attached to recent spam that…
The Times’s unfortunate decision today to give up four columns across the top of the front page to a photograph of Michelle Wie is mitigated by a number of factors: feminism, beauty of composition (props to photog Suzy Allman), and…