Archive for July 28th, 2008
Do you need a suit and a penis to be in the Business Section?
Do women bloggers belong in the Style section? The New York Times steps on a land-mine and we have their response…
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
In all things in life, you get whatever standard you set. When you lower standards, you will get low quality. The cliched phrase, “you get what you pay for,” applies to journalism as well. As more and more blogs depends on free content (and to be completely open, outside of our grad student contributors, we [...]
Tip-toeing around the issue
The International Herald Tribune/New York Times‘ Adam Nagourney spend 829 words wondering, “Why is Obama not improving in the polls?” He points out the disconnect between the adoring crowds with hundreds of thousands of people and the minimal spread.
All sorts of reasons were given.
Class, what do you think?
—No one heard of him six months ago.
(I [...]
You’re a Bush, act like one.
The Oliver Stone trailer for the Bush biopic, W. is out. It seems pretty paint-by-numbers. You get the quick run-down of his failures:
“You didn’t like the sporting goods job.”
“Or the oil business.”
“You didn’t exactly finish up with flying colors in the National Guard.”
“Chasing tail, driving drunk!”
Finally Bush Sr. played by James Cromwell, put it to [...]
Afternoon snacks: Daily News Round-up, Republican edition
USC Fake Republicans in the News: CNN ran an interview with a man named Eric Perlmutter who claimed that he was part of University’s College Republicans organization. He claimed:
“We try to get people out to our college Republican meetings, but … we can’t seem to draw the same kind of vocal support.”
It seems that CNN [...]
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