“I gave it everything I had, I didn’t hold anything back. I did the best newscast we were capable of doing,” Rather said.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Was It Something We Said?
The New York Times is laying off five hundred people. And I’ll bet they still don’t have a clue as to why they have to.
We Don’t Cancel the Fact Check
Mike Griffin defended the budget averaging $8 billion/year for a Moon return (0.05% of 2018 GDP) by saying, “We Don’t Cancel the Navy” as MSNBC headlined. Actually we did cancel the Navy after the Revolutionary War and didn’t start it up again until 1794.
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I spoke to my dad, the pre-civil war American History Professor Emeritus and he had forgotten that the Navy had been cancelled. I respectfully withdraw my media criticism. I guess it needs to be refiled under media witticism.
Update 2005-09-21-10:55:00
We Don’t Cancel the Fact Check
Mike Griffin defended the budget averaging $8 billion/year for a Moon return (0.05% of 2018 GDP) by saying, “We Don’t Cancel the Navy” as MSNBC headlined. Actually we did cancel the Navy after the Revolutionary War and didn’t start it up again until 1794.
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I spoke to my dad, the pre-civil war American History Professor Emeritus and he had forgotten that the Navy had been cancelled. I respectfully withdraw my media criticism. I guess it needs to be refiled under media witticism.
Update 2005-09-21-10:55:00
We Don’t Cancel the Fact Check
Mike Griffin defended the budget averaging $8 billion/year for a Moon return (0.05% of 2018 GDP) by saying, “We Don’t Cancel the Navy” as MSNBC headlined. Actually we did cancel the Navy after the Revolutionary War and didn’t start it up again until 1794.
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I spoke to my dad, the pre-civil war American History Professor Emeritus and he had forgotten that the Navy had been cancelled. I respectfully withdraw my media criticism. I guess it needs to be refiled under media witticism.
Update 2005-09-21-10:55:00
Marketing Blunder
Iain Murray notes that:
The New York Times is going to start charging for people to read its oped columns online. Projected annual income: two boxes of crackerjack and a signed photograph of Paul Krugman.
I’m willing to pay for Tierney, but I’d how much of a discount will they give me to have to read Dowd and Krugman? Otherwise, I’ll just pass completely.
“Journalism”
Jeff Goldstein is (to put it mildly) less than impressed with hurricane coverage at Newsweek. I haven’t read the magazine in decades.
“Journalism”
Jeff Goldstein is (to put it mildly) less than impressed with hurricane coverage at Newsweek. I haven’t read the magazine in decades.
“Journalism”
Jeff Goldstein is (to put it mildly) less than impressed with hurricane coverage at Newsweek. I haven’t read the magazine in decades.
How Much Can We Believe?
…all of the horror stories out of New Orleans for the past week? Michelle Malkin has some questions about the validity of much of the reporting, with links.