Media
Michael Yon is back with another brutal assessment of the military public affairs office. If you believe that we are losing the media and information war, you are correct. Unfortunately, we have to look at our own military for a large share of the blame. RUBS (Raw Unedited, Barely Spellchecked) People at home who lament […]
The New York Post has the story of the shifting goalposts when it comes to the executive compensation at the New York Times company. This is the same New York Times whose Pulitzer prize winning business writer has a series of articles called Gilded Paychecks. As our friend Don Luskin wryly noted today, WHERE’S GRETCHEN […]
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Check out this video from Pamela Hess, UPI reporter who covers the Pentagon. Rarely do you see such raw emotion, honesty and perspective from a journalist. This is tremendously moving video. We need more journalists like Pamela Hess. Jules Crittenden and Blackfive have more.
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Richard Fernandez, who writes as Wretchard at The Belmont Club, has a must read post if you are interested in the media, blogs or Iraq. The Blogosphere at War I wrote this paper as an attempt to describe how the blogosphere works; to situate it vis-a-vis the mainstream media and to indicate some of the […]
This is the time of year for top ten lists. Here are the 10 current trends in the mass media that ought to disturb us according to Peter Kahn, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, and chairman of Dow Jones. The blurring of the lines between journalism and entertainment; The blurring of lines between news and opinion; The […]
Jules Crittenden is the city editor for the Boston Herald and a columnist for the paper of military matters and foreign affairs. He is terrific. The blogosphere just got a little better with the recent launch of “Forward Movement”, Jules new blog. The blogosphere is the perfect outlet for a guy like Jules, he’s brash, […]
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This week the biggest story in the mainstream media has been (unfortunately) the Mark Foley story and his alleged electronic flirtations with a male Congressional page. If proven true, Foley did the right thing by resigning immediately instead of dragging the country thru the mud like Clinton and many other liberals have done in the […]
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