The Other McCain

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

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 […]

‘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 […]

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