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LA Times Bureau Chief Admits That Its Reporting Could Help Terrorists
In a remarkable interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show this afternoon (Mon. June 26, 2006), Doyle McManus, Washington D.C. bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, publicly admitted that the column in his paper on Friday, the one in which a secret financial tracking program was reported, could aid terrorists who target the United States. The original column was written by Josh Meyer and Greg…
Journalists Not Biased Against Religion, Just "Ignorant
USA Today has an interesting article from Washington Journalism Center's Terry Mattingly. "At times, the mood turned hostile toward the lawmakers in the stately white building behind the stage," wrote The Washington Post in its coverage of the event. Then, without explanation, the story offered this on-stage quotation from a religious broadcaster: "Let's pray that God will slay everyone in the…
Parade Pushes Another Gas Tax
Magazine's guide to going green, fighting global warming calls for less green in your pocketbook.
Newsweek's Hard-hitting Celebrity Investigative Journalism
15 People Who Make America GreatNewsweek Magazine#4 Brad Pitt"If it wasn't for Brad Pitt, most Americans would never have heard of Namibia. They might not know about AIDS orphans in South Africa, or the plight of children in Haiti, or what transpired at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."Google News: "Brad Pitt Namibia World Economic Forum Davos Switzerland"Results about "what…
Crisis Over: Boys Fail Slightly Less Than We Thought
A train wreck of reporting and editing is displayed in Study Casts Doubt On the 'Boy Crisis' by the Washington Post's Jay Mathews on the front page. It's based on a report by a think tank called Education Sector, and tries to refute years of research showing boys' collective disadvantage in education. The logic of this report is illustrated in the following quote from the report itself, written…