"Shock Troops" Disavowed
by After months of wrangling over Scott Beauchamp’s disturbing little war story entitled “Shock Troops“, The New Republic has acknowledged that it cannot stand behind the …
Category: Media
Presidential Press Coverage
Journalism.org has an interesting post up in which the press coverage of the 2008 presidential election is analyzed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism …
Of Reporters, Hacks
Earlier today Glen Greenwald published what he believes is an email sent to by him Colonel Steve Boylan, the spokesman for General Petraeus. Boylan – …
Reporters’ Shield Bill Passes House
Reuters says: The House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat on Tuesday and overwhelmingly passed legislation that would protect reporters from being jailed …
Funky Winkerbean Causes Controversy
From Fox News: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But did the creator of the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" take the "awareness" part too far? …
The "F**k This" Test
Colorado State University’s Board of Student Communications met yesterday and decided that David McSwane, the editor-in-chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper, will keep his …
The Myth of Student Free Speech
by Saw this and it made me laugh. OK, so this kid decides to wear his John Edwards 2008 T-shirt to school (High School) and gets …
Herbert Trashes Republicans
Bob Herbert is mad at Republicans again and wrote in the NY Times that the party is “anti-black”. His response to the ‘Pubs in the …
Censoring Satire
It seems the Washington Post and a large number of other mainstream U.S. newspapers will refuse to run the next two Sunday’s worth of Berkely …
Liberalism / Media / Stupidity
Liberal’s Love
The Texas Rainmaker says that liberals all over America are showing their typical grace and genuine love for mankind by publicly proclaiming that they hope …