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Last week the Huffington Post ran a typical partisan tu quoque attempting to turn the tables on Glenn Beck’s hysteria about conspiracy theorists and ACORN activists in the Obama administration. According to HuffPo’s Sam Stein, Beck himself “has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery, [...]
Filed under: media
This article gets a lot right — the death of newspapers has been exaggerated. They still sell, though sales are falling, and they’re still profitable. The smart ones are becoming more profitable even as sales decline — in other words, they have a product that has been underpriced until now. What’s happening to the newspaper [...]
Filed under: media, Technology
This “Daily Show” report by Jason Jones on the New York Times is so brutal I would feel sorry for the Old Gray Lady — if only any of her employees showed a hint of humor or self-awareness. Consider this exchange between Jones and Assistant Managing Editor Rick Burke: Jones: Why is aged news better [...]
Filed under: media
I was on Tom Woods’s “Shock to the System” internet radio show a few weeks back. Here’s the audio (MP3).
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, media
From a New York Times reporter eager to enlist him in a crusade in which he wants no part: You live in California , where last month the State Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage . As someone who lived with a male companion for 50-plus years, do you see this as a [...]
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They’ll have to go back to watching their Abu Ghraib tapes because the new season of “24″ has been postponed indefinitely — another salutary effect of the Hollywood writers’ strike. Make it permanent, guys!
Filed under: media, non-culture, Pop culture
Following on my post from the other day, here is the Book TV video (real media) of a Sean Wilentz-moderated panel discussion on the first two offerings from Princeton UP’s James Madison Library series. John Patrick Diggins (author of That Reagan Book, among other things), RFK Jr., Sam Tanenhaus discuss Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative. [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, media
The blogosphere is in a lather over Ann Coulter’s use of the word “faggot” at CPAC. The American Spectator and National Review are both supporting calls to have her banned from CPAC forevermore for that affront to homosexual-Americans. The whole episode is a good illustration of the Coulter method. She knows where the fault lines [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
The Times runs an excerpt of Tom Bower’s tabloid take on the life of Conrad Black. There’s pathos: “Do you think you can get a group of people together if the need arises,” he asked one billionaire, “and get me some funds secured against my property?” “How much do you want from everyone, Conrad?” asked [...]