NYT Magazine Gushes Over Al Gore's 'Prophetic Status' and 'Intellectua
May 19th, 2007 2:05 PM
I really shouldn’t have eaten breakfast before reading a preview of the New York Times Magazine’s upcoming piece “Al Gore Has Big Plans” (h/t Dan Gainor).After all, it’s one thing when sycophants like Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, and Leonardo DiCaprio gush over the former vice president in a manner akin to teenyboppers within earshot of Sean or David Cassidy. But when such fawning superlatives like…
Oklahoma's Brand of Immigration Reform Barely Makes News; Guess Why
May 19th, 2007 10:21 AM
The Formerly Mainstream Media is favorably transfixed on the proposed immigration "reforms" being whipped through Congress -- legislation that opponents characterize as "amnesty."
"Somehow," they have managed to virtually ignore immigration-related legislation that has actually become law in Oklahoma.
Perhaps it's because Oklahoma's reforms have nothing to do with "amnesty," and everything to do…
AP Reporter Miserably Covers Record Tax Receipts, Falling Deficit
May 13th, 2007 12:40 PM
Perhaps you read this week that in April, the US Treasury reported all-time-record tax collections of $383.6 billion.
If you did, you didn't read it in the dead-trees version of the New York Times. The Old Grey Lady did not deem Thursday afternoon's news "fit to print" on Friday (requires free registration), even choosing not to carry the related Associated Press report that is the main topic of…
UMd. Study: RSS Feeds Poorly Designed by Media Outlets, NY Times Among
May 8th, 2007 6:18 PM
A new study by my alma mater, the University of Maryland, looked at the online divisions of 19 major traditional print and broadcast media:... to see
which ones gave the users of their RSS feeds the same number of
stories, the same range of news sources, in as timely a fashion as
could be gotten if those users went to the individual website. The Los Angeles Times, ABCNews.com, and Foxnews.com…
