Did Wonkette Not Get Ana Marie Cox's Memo Re: Tony Snow
March 27th, 2007 5:20 PM
(h/t Snarking Dawg)From Ana Marie Cox's post to the "Swampland" blog at Time magazine:Let
me say that I did some self-cringing last week, when I choose to
describe Tony as the "most fun" press secretary of the administration.
I was looking for something non-controversial, non-partisan and true to
say about the guy. "Fun" seemed like something he'd appreciate -- he is
fun. The biggest change in…
WashPost Gives Royal Navy Hostage Story Just 51 Words On Day Four of I
March 27th, 2007 11:07 AM
Today marks four days since Iran's Revolutionary Guard captured 15 British servicemen in what they claim are Iranian territorial waters. A similar incident in 2004 lasted just three days.Yet the Washington Post, which has never hesitated to front-page negative developments in the war in Iraq, gave just 51 words on page A8 to the ongoing detention of 15 British servicemen.By contrast, the March…
CNN E-Mail Ignores the Past Week's Strong Stock Market Performance
March 24th, 2007 8:50 AM
From a CNN e-mail I received shortly after the close of Friday's stock markets (this was the entire message):
Wall Street fights off mortgage-risk-induced woes to end the week higher, with small gains Friday.
Anyone reading this e-mail would have thought that this was a net ho-hum week on The Street. After all, the e-mail merely said that the week ended "higher."
"Higher"? More like "way, way…
Behind Kucinich: Will MSM Cover Hillary's Fifth-Place Finish in Dean O
March 23rd, 2007 10:48 AM
At the end of his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean started Democracy for America, billed as a grassroots Democratic political action committee "dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government." Last week, DFA staged an online Dem presidential candidate preference poll. As a proud DFA member [meaning that I joined the email list], I just…
Edwards, Bloggers, and the 'Suspense' of Mysterious Press Conferences
March 22nd, 2007 4:34 PM
Today's Edwards announcement is an object lesson in how easy it is for us in the blogosphere to run with something juicy without double-checking the facts and/or being very, very careful to precisely word our posts so that we don't tell readers to take something to the bank that hasn't been confirmed. It's also a lesson in how to promptly and gracefully face the music and admit error.Earlier…
Media Ignore CNBC Anchor Advising Hedge Funds How to Lie and Cheat to
March 22nd, 2007 1:47 PM
Something rather extraordinary occurred last December which had extremely ominous implications for stock investors around the world, but got totally ignored by the media. In fact, if not for a recent video posting at YouTube, and a March 20 article in the New York Post, these spectacular revelations would still be well under the radar.On December 22, CNBC’s James Cramer did a web interview for…
