The Other McCain

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

‘BullyGate’: What Did Jason Horowitz Know, and When Did He Know It?

The implosion of the Washington Post‘s “BullyGate” story — a rapidly rising item on Memeorandum today — has sparked questions about the sourcing of reporter Jason Horowitz’s article: A key element of the Washington Post’s 5,000-word account of Mitt Romney’s alleged high-school bullying is based on a second-hand account of a conversation with a dead […]

No ‘BullyGate’ Pulitzer for WaPo?
UPDATE: Using a Second-Hand Source for a Dead Man’s Words? WTF?

Three recent headlines in the URGENT BREAKING SCANDAL: Source for WaPo’s Romney hit piece: Actually, I wasn’t present during the prank — Hot Air Sister of Alleged Romney Target Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Any Bullying Incident — ABC News A question emerges in reading the Washington Post piece … — Daily Caller Of course, this […]

Wow. This Almost Never Happens.

Betsy Rothstein writes something I agree with: Were these so-called practices ever thought out or spelled out in the first place? Was Riley ever told what she could or couldn’t write? Or was the outcry of online observers — and there are a lot of them these days with loud, shrill, threatening voices — so […]

Grim News in WaPoVille

Washington Post, it sucks to be you: The Washington Post Co. reported its first-quarter earnings on Friday, and the news coming out of the newspaper division was mostly grim. The unit lost $22.6 million in the quarter, with revenue down 8% and revenue from print advertising specifically falling 17%. Meanwhile, the Post just reported one […]

Democrats Against Journalism?

Michael Delaney is a Democrat who is attorney general of New Hampshire. James O’Keefe is a journalist who exposed the fact that it was possible for dead people to vote in New Hampshire. In reaction to O’Keefe’s blockbuster investigative report, the New Hampshire legislature enacted a voter ID law. Michael Delaney tried to serve a […]

Does Steve Forbes Know (or Care) What Lewis Dvorkin Is Doing to His Brand?

OK, I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, and actually started to do it two or three times, but set it aside, until at last I’ve had enough: What the hell is Steve Forbes thinking? What finally pushed me over the edge was when I realized that Rick Ungar is now writing under […]

Amid a Steaming Heap of Predictable Liberal Snark, Two Important Sentences

Alex Pareene is a writer who has figured out that liberals like reading stories about how evil, stupid and nasty conservatives are. This is obviously the reason why Pareene is willing to sacrifice whatever self-respect he ever had by working for Salon. Salon is basically the cockroach of Web ‘zines. Begun in the age of […]

Media’s Lack of Accountability Now Blamed on ‘Right-Wing Bloggers’?

NBC officials are refusing to provide a full accounting — and name names of those responsible — for the misleading edit of the George Zimmerman 911 call. NBC’s editing created the false and inflammatory impression that Zimmerman had singled out Trayvon Martin on the basis of race. In fact, as the unedited audio of the call showed, Zimmerman […]

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