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Like Pravda Covering Chernobyl: Fox News on the Murdoch Problems
Check out the front pages of FoxNews.Com and NYTimes.com, taken at the same time about half an hour ago. You can click for a larger view of each, but no matter how big you make the Fox page, you're not...
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More on Rep. Cantor as Least Valuable Player
Last month I argued that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was doing more harm to the national interest, or at least doing so more noticeably, than any of his Republican or Democratic colleagues on...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Airplane
Or at least two:A week ago, I mentioned that the Cirrus Aircraft corporation, maker of the leading small-plane model in the world, had been sold to a branch of China's state-run airplane-producing...
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Who Says the Press Only Covers Bad News? (cont.)
Whenever I'm feeling downcast about the things-fall-apart budgetary / environmental / business-ethics / social-justice trends reported in the news, I know where to turn. The Chinese press is a reliable...
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Readers on Rep. Cantor: the New Eddie Haskell?
For better or worse, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is making himself the symbol of all-out, "stand up to the man" opposition to President Obama in the budget talks. Some reactions to my claim...
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'Mountaineer': Sobering News out of West Virginia
I'm late on this but wanted at least to note it: yesterday's NYT front-page story that American Electric Power, a huge utility company providing electricity mainly in the Midwest, is postponing or...
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Rep. Cantor Wrap-up for Now
Following two previous items on his role as the man who is happy to blow up the debt talks rather than compromise with a Democratic President or even his own party's Speaker, these final (I hope)...
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What the President Knows (and When He Knew It)
Early this morning I quoted reader DM's argument that, despite appearances of President Obama being pushed around and treated like a doormat by more aggressive Republicans, his debt-and-deficit policy...
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The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done
Or at least the most amazingly brazen I can think of at this moment.Via Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, the simply unbelievable Fox and Friends segment below. It's about the News of the World...
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More on the 'Most Incredible' Fox News Travesty
Last night I mentioned the virtually impossible-to-believe Fox and Friends segment in which the News of the World was presented as another victim of a hacking episode, rather than as the perpetrator....
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This Is Really Lame (CIA Fake Vaccination Dept)
A few days ago I mentioned the CIA's effective but (in my view) long-range foolish tactic of setting up a fake-vaccination program as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. According to reports in the...
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Phew! Another Threat Not to Worry About (Spying from Above Dept)
Yesterday I was doing an errand in the car and caught the tail end of a discussion on a rebroadcast Diane Rehm show about Chinese spying in the United States. A flight instructor called in to mention...
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Newspaper Writers as Novelists
Which I mean in a good way: that is, writers who reveal their eye for the telling phrase and the memorable detail. Here is a paragraph to notice, from the latest NYT wrap-up of the long-festering...
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Obama as Chess Master? Or Pawn?
A few days ago I quoted several reader messages to the effect that President Obama -- even as he backs off rather than appoint Elizabeth Warren to head the agency she helped design, even as he lets...
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Real-time Announcement: Watch the Murdoch / Parliament Hearing. Now.
Whatever else you may be doing now.At least in opening moments, Rupert Murdoch is either, for sympathy reasons, doing an astonishingly convincing impression of a man far past his prime, unsure of...
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Pushback on CIA and Fake Vaccinations: Maybe Not So Lame?
Recently I argued that the CIA's scheme of luring Abbottabad families in for vaccinations, and as part of the process collecting their DNA to see if any were related to Osama bin Laden, was a bad...
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Paging Edward Gibbon: the Imperial Dysfunction Chronicles
Ready to feel just that little bit more depressed about how a (fundamentally rich, resilient, well-situated, self-renewing) country can fritter away its prospects? I give you H.R. 2354, the Energy and...
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Maybe This Will Cool You Off (if You're in the US Swelter-Belt)
As a watchword for life, you never go wrong with "other people's weather is not interesting." But enough people in the eastern two-thirds of the US are now broiling that it may be a moment to talk...
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Today's Murdoch Installment: Nixon, Clinton, and Netanyahu
I hadn't looked for a long time at my 2003 story for the magazine, "The Age of Murdoch." I've just looked at it again now, on the assumption that Murdoch news will be with us for a while.Some the story...
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More on Obama as Chess Master -- or Pawn
In three previous installments, readers weighed in on whether the evolving shape of the debt-and-deficit "negotiations," and President Obama's larger management of his domestic agenda, should be seen...
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