Mainstream Media
Kudos to the Providence Journal for running the Opus comic strip deemed too controversial for the funny pages by a number of major newspapers, including the Washington Post. The spiked strip can be seen here, at the Salon magazine website.
On Sunday, the NY Times published and op-ed by 7 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne in which they explained their reservations about the way the War in Iraq is going. An excerpt: Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist,…
Duncan Currie writes in The Libel Tourist Strikes Again: How to Kill a Book You Don’t Like: In late July, Cambridge University Press announced it was destroying all its remaining copies of Alms for Jihad, a 2006 book exploring the nexus of Islamic charities and Islamic radicalism. At the same time, Cambridge asked libraries around…
What to make of the “Housing in R.I.” section displayed prominently on today’s ProJo.com frontpage? Let’s see, hmmm….wow, how ironic, Both condo sales and foreclosures are rising. Weird. Aw gee, Foreclosures taking a toll on Providence neighborhoods that’s sad. Not just here either? Nation’s mortgage woes put brakes on construction of homes, apartments. Yikes. Wait…
A couple few related thoughts on today’s journalism. First, former NY Times Magazine editor William Katz on today’s journalists (h/t, via Powerline): There have been many changes in journalism since World War II, but the most striking has come in the resumé of the journalist. Of course, there have always been college graduates in journalism.…
According to Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard, Scott Thomas Beauchamp has recanted his controversial New Republic articles concerning the conduct of American troops in Iraq…THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23…
My post on the “Scott Thomas” affair at The New Republic elicited a spirited debate. It has now taken some interesting turns. First of all, the author has now identified himself. Here is what he wrote in TNR: My Diarist, “Shock Troops,” and the two other pieces I wrote for the New Republic have stirred…
Rocco DiPippo will be discussing his experiences in Iraq on WPRO’s (630 AM) John DePetro Show, this morning, at 10:00 AM.
From an unsigned editorial in today’s Projo… It is time to consider consolidating many more town and city services regionally. To that end, it might be time to revive Rhode Island’s four counties — Providence, Kent, Bristol and Washington (aka South County) to provide local services.Um, what happened to Newport County?
One of the side conversations in the comments to my “Media Bias” post concerned the possible resuscitation of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” which Sen. Diane Feinstein floated on FOXNews Sunday: WALLACE: So would you revive the fairness doctrine? FEINSTEIN: Well, I’m looking at it, as a matter of fact, Chris, because I think there ought…