The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Paul Ryan in the American Spectator

When you think about qualifications as vice president, the first thing you have to ask is, “Have they written for the American Spectator?” Paul Ryan’s byline first appeared in the American Spectator in July 2009, and today he’s back with a column slamming Obama’s “you didn’t build that” rhetoric: President Obama recently made a stunning remark […]

Fareed Zakaria Caught Engaging In Act Of Biden-esque Plagiarism And Marcotte-esque Argumentation

by Smitty Not only did Fareed Zakaria beclown himself by stealing other’s work in a gun grabber article for Time, but Rames Ponnuru notes that when FZ acts as an intellectual burglar, Fareed thugs the contents trash can: Fareed Zakaria has tried to make “The Case for Gun Control” in Time. The results are not pretty. […]

Golden Boy Jesse Angelo Lays Off Daily Staffers, Keeps $23 Million House

Being the Harvard roommate of Rupert Murdoch’s son is a great way to get ahead at NewsCorp. Murdoch agreed to invest $30 million in The Daily, with golden boy Jesse Angelo as editor. What could possibly go wrong, eh? The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying […]

The Times, They Are A-Faking

Imagine you’re a handsome young up-and-coming journalist with a Columbia University neuroscience degree. Imagine you write for prestigious publications — the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the New Yorker — and land a book deal that seems destined to make you the next Malcolm Gladwell. Imagine your third book starts with a chapter about Bob Dylan. Imagine you […]

The Coming Implosion of Salon.com

Iowahawk today pointed out the omens that Alex Pareene’s current employer is unlikely to survive another year: In a sign that Salon is very close to being shuttered, the company “lost” its CEO and CFO recently. . . . At the end of the final quarter of 2011, Salon had $149,000 in the bank against […]

Answer: Yes. Also, Naked Celebrities.

“Is long-form journalism doomed to being subsidized by traffic-baiting animal slideshows?” — Joe Pompeo, “‘Businessweek’ editor won’t say whether they’re making money, describes the ‘luxury’ of doing long pieces“

Much Like Professor Glenn Reynolds,
John Edwards Has a Law Degree

Having been raked over the coals on Twitter by a young blogger upset by my curmudgeonly rant, now I find Instapundit categorically disparaging the entire notion of journalism as a profession: It’s pathetic, and embarrassing. And yet they still pretend they belong to some sort of learned profession with special privileges and responsibilities, when really […]

Hard Times in WaPoVille: ‘BullyGate’ Timing Questioned on ‘Morning Joe’

If they’ve lost Morning Joe . . . “And there’s no doubt that . . . the timing of this obviously is in line with Barack Obama coming out a couple of days ago, saying — I’m sorry. It’s a fun — I mean, the media response to Barack Obama saying absolutely nothing. In the […]

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