I dedicate this post to Tom Friedman, one of the most pedestrian, overrated intellects of this or any other age.
Journalism
Newswalk: Safe at Home — Really?; Mobile Wallets; and the Latest Pastime, Media Lynchings
"America has balkanized fiercely thanks to a disreputable media and dishonorable 'leaders,' and a Pandora’s box has cracked open as a result."
Newswalk: Brain Drain; “Forward!”; and PC Journalism
“If you’re by yourself or you’re not from around here or you don’t know anybody around here, you’re a target. Automatically.”
Bad Ideas Are Still Having Bad Consequences — Some Background to the Norway Massacre
"This event illustrates the fact that eugenic ideas are still flourishing and influential in some areas of society and are, likewise, still very destructive."
Journalism, Truth, “This American Life” and the Modern Liberal
I got an e-mail from Ira Glass last week. I found that odd, because I don’t believe I’ve ever received an e-mail from the host of the popular NPR show This American Life. It was a mea culpa. They had discovered that one of their most popular shows had contained numerous fabrications, and he wrote to apologize. The week’s hour long episode was called “Retraction.” I heard most of it and found it a telling metaphor for modern liberalism’s tenuous relationship with the truth.
LA Times Now Charging for Access
Since I was born and raised in LA and now live in the Chicago area I’ve made it a habit every morning to visit the LA Times website to see what’s going on in my hometown, and most importantly see what’s going with my hometown sports teams. But I’m not doing that anymore. I got an e-mail a couple weeks back from the LA Times saying they were soon going to be charging for their online content.
Heartland Institute Responds to Publishing of False and Stolen Documents
(Yesterday, documents purporting to be confidential strategy memos from The Heartland Institute, a national think tank and major player in the controversy over claims of an impending anthropogenic global warming (now climate change) crisis, were published by The Huffington Post and throughout much of the progressive-left blogosphere. The following is Heartland's statement about the stolen and fraudulent documents.)
Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from Heartland, at least one is a fake, and some may have been altered. . . .
John Stewart Throws Conservatives Some Crumbs
You may have seen the link on our Newswire, ‘Daily Show’ Brilliantly Exposes President of ‘Civility Project’ Who Smeared Tea Partiers as ‘Terrorists’. This is what Rush Limbaugh has creatively come to call a random act of journalism, and it’s brilliantly executed and hilarious. In a media dominated by lefty progressive liberals, it’s a rare thing when they call their own side out on their inconsistencies or flagrant distortions. When this happens, conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, constitutionalists (have I left anyone out), everyone who cares about liberty and limited government, gets excited. Wow! Truth in the media; far out!
Penn State Scandal Exposes Unseemly Media Motives
The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not all of them are immediately obvious. In particular, the mainstream press, so proud of its progressive views on most moral matters, showed the puritanical streak they always reveal when a person widely believed to be of good moral character can be knocked down and branded a hypocrite. The media coverage in this case displayed the classic American journalism tactic of conveying salacious stories under cover of moral indignation. This was obvious in the rush to make Penn State football coach Joe Paterno the center of the story.
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