Mainstream Media
Glenn is right that this isn’t exactly surprising news, but it’s worth remembering from time to time throughout the egregiously extended campaign season: Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a…
The return to WPRO-AM was suspected for months – maybe years – beforehand. The gig with ABC6 didn’t really take anyone by surprise. But the subject of a feature article in The New Republic? Now that’s getting a tad ridiculous. [Insert your own “Maybe TNR needed an association with someone with a cleaner reputation than…
They just can’t say the “W” word, can they? Last week, the ProJo editorialized: We agree with Governor Carcieri that Rhode Island must slash spending to close yawning budget deficits and get the state back on its feet economically. But courtroom translators are not the place to start. During a recent radio talk-show appearance, Governor…
… in Jay Nordlinger’s latest Impromptus: … a reader wrote to ask me this: “Dear Jay: After the Senate threatened Rush — and remember the vast regulatory power of the federal government — did anyone utter the words ‘chilling effect’?” Not that I heard, no. Because free speech is for liberals and leftists — for…
Some have bemoaned the lack of positive media coverage of the comparatively strong U.S. economy over the past few years. Maybe there’s a reason. In a review of -30-: The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper edited by Charles M. Madigan, John Saul notes: From article to article, there is an echo of depressing statistics…
Don Imus will return to the radio airwaves. Embattled radio jock Don Imus is close to inking a multimillion-dollar deal to return to radio with Citadel Broadcasting, owner of ABC Radio Networks. The deal, expected to be finalized this week, would put Imus back on the air Dec. 3 on WABC-AM in New York City,…
Last month, Carroll Andrew Morse noted the controversial Opus cartoon, which the Providence Journal ran but many newspapers, including the Washington Post, did not. In today’s classic Bloom County cartoon on Yahoo News, Berke Breathed seems to have presaged the incident sparked by his own cartoon.
Watch as some MSNBC guy named David Schuster (perhaps a misspelling of “shyster”) ambushes U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R, Tennessee) with a request that she name the last person in her district killed in Iraq. I find the following to be the despicable aspect of his barrage, because it traps the interviewee with the usual…
A note from Patrick Murray expressing dissatisfaction with my post about the first two parts of John Mulligan’s Providence Journal series about him led me to take another look at what I’d written. My title was certainly too strong; the use of the word “sinister” was too suggestive of conscious action. My knee-jerk reaction was…
There’s something sinister about the timing of the Providence Journal’s five-part series about Corporal Patrick Murray. A production this large was most definitely a long time in the making, but issuing part one this week makes it resonate as a response to General Petraeus, and its execution reinforces the impression. Murray certainly deserves to have…
