Mainstream Media
Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof is chastising the US Press corps for under-reporting the positive effect that President Bush’s Africa policy has had: Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement. Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof,…
The ProJo reported on Thursday: Governor Carcieri has withdrawn his nomination of Beverly Najarian for reappointment as director of the Department of Administration less than 24 hours before she was supposed to face a Senate committee hearing and confirmation vote. The article went on to strongly imply that Governor Carcieri had done so because he…
Yesterday, Ian Donnis suggested that my latest Providence Journal op-ed “oversteps in prescribing [ascribing?] an advocacy role to [WPRI’s Steve] Aveson, who like [himself] and other panelists, uses various rhetorical devices (the ever-popular devil’s advocate, for example) in the interest of posing questions and stimulating discussion.” Truth to tell, I didn’t see myself as ascribing…
Talk about transparency (emphasis added): The state will forgo an estimated $23.4 million next year as a result of the flat tax, according to an analysis of the Poverty Institute at Rhode Island College. The average tax cut will be $5,337. And the beneficiaries are overwhelmingly in higher-income brackets: 98 percent of the savings will…
Something jumps out about this isolated parenthetical “correction” in today’s story about the state of the state address in the Providence Journal, by Katherine Gregg, Steve Peoples, and Cynthia Needham: With respect to state workers, he said: “The average state employee earns $61,000 per year in salary with fringe benefits valued at another $34,000 (a…
An unsigned editorial in Saturday’s Projo had this to say about the coming transition to digitial television…The government is taking away the analog spectrum to boost wireless services (which are becoming ever more important) and for public-safety needs. That’s why the Feds (i.e., taxpayers) are even offering to help pay for those converter boxes. So…
Now why would Disney go and make the Narnia movies out of order? I understand why the film makers wouldn’t want to start with The Magician’s Nephew, which is the first book according to the storyline. C.S. Lewis, after all, didn’t write the book until after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I suppose…
Congratulations to RI Report founder Tom Shevlin on his new gig… The presidential candidates can run, but it will be hard for them to hide from the horde of citizen journalists tapped by MTV’s Choose or Lose ’08 to cover the race for the White House. A group of 51 local reporters — one from…
I’ve thought of myself as pretty well tuned into Rhode Island political trivia, but until I stumbled across this Weekly Standard article mentioning a “famous Rhode Island drawl”, I never realized that John McLaughlin – the McLaughlin of The McLaughlin Group — was a native Rhode Islander. Here’s the opening of his Rhode Island Heritage…
…then try to explain why NBC rejected it. More details available from the Powerline blog.