Archive for the 'hack' Category
Shorter Mark Ambinder: “I Have No Journalistic Ethics”
BLECCCCH:
Does an afternoon of leisure with senior administration officials violate journalistic ethics? To many, the self-evident answer is: “Absolutely.” I have a different view, although perhaps it’s a way to rationalize my own decision to attend the Bidens’ first beach party for journalists. Later today, I’ll lay out some thoughts about the ethics of all [...]
And They Get the Election Day Op-Ed Wrong Too
Ya know, it’s funny: the Daily News is the paper that’s always on the chopping block, but the Inquirer is just about as dumb as dumb can be. If yesterday’s last minute Hail Mary was high comedy, today’s bitter little editorial is a farce. So let’s fisk it.
The congressman from Delaware County was able to [...]
Investment Advice from Tom Friedman
As a rule of thumb, i don’t take investment advice from people who have been wrong about everything. That’s why, when I read Tom Friedman’s column urging investors:
I am reluctant to sell China short, not because I think it has no problems or corruption or bubbles, but because I think it has all those [...]
Obama’s very Own Armstrong Williams
UPDATED WITH NECESSARY EDITS:
It may be a little early to start putting up youtube clips of Dave Chapelle as Black Bush, but check out this trip down memory lane:
The Education Department paid commentator Armstrong Williams $241,000 to help promote President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law on the air, an arrangement that Williams acknowledged [...]
Stu Bykofsky’s Temper Tantrum
Oh dear. Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky is having a temper tantrum about bicycles. Let’s take a look and see if we can count the inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and mistakes in his latest “when-I-was-a-boy-we-ate-wool-and-we-liked-it” freakout.
JUMP ON MY handlebars. Let’s go for a ride.
Almost guaranteed to be a fiction: in all probability, Stu didn’t ride a [...]
Bob Brady: Biotech Puppet
Bob Brady will say whatever the biotech industry tells him to.
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, [...]
Defending Will Bunch: Harold Jackson is FULL OF IT.
Harold jackson at the inky has a lotta nerve:
Unfortunately, most of the critics of our contract with Yoo have their facts wrong.
But that happens when your information comes from those bloggers who never let the facts get in the way when they’re trying to whip people into a frenzy to boost Web site hits.
It’s a [...]
The Times Responds, and So Do I.
This is great. You tell me who’s right.
Diane McNulty diane.mcnulty@nytimes.com>
Dear Mr. Skwire,
Thanks for writing — and for reading The New York Times. Regarding Maureen Dowd’s column, behind almost all “pork” projects, one can usually find something of worth, including jobs. What makes them “pork” is that they are inserted into bills by Senators [...]
OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: HIRE SKWIRE, FIRE DOWD.
diane.mcnulty@nytimes.com
Clark Hoyt, public editor: public@nytimes.com
Dear Diane and Clark:
I point you to the following website, associated with the Philadelphia Weekly…
Brendan Skwire is performing an invaluable public service today: The Philly blogger is fact-checking Maureen Dowd — and, by extension, Sen. John McCain — on her characterization of a number of “pork” earmarks in a new spending [...]
Last Call: Georgia’s Blueberries
Unfortunately, i wasn’t able to accomplish all of Maureen Dowd’s homework today, missing the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Agriculture by just a few minutes. So instead, I’ll post the letter I sent to him. I hope to hear back from him by tomorrow.
Dear Commissioner Irvin:
My name is Brendan Skwire, and I’m a [...]
