Category Archives: Journalism

Al Gore Confronts An Inconvenient Truth

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Luke Ford

From the Times of London: There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient … Continue reading →

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Fort Hood Massacre

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Yisroel Pensack

The New York Times reports:  WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by … Continue reading →

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Yisroel Pensack: The New York Times’ Coverage of the Fort Hood Massacre — A Profile in Journalistic Courage

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Yisroel Pensack

"Was Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan a terrorist…?" The New York Times courageously asked yesterday.  Duuuhhhhh.

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Yisroel Pensack: David Brooks Punctures the Media’s Politically Correct Balloon Regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Yisroel Pensack

David Brooks writes in The New York Times:   The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality.  Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation and goodness. But over the … Continue reading →

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Journalism Ain’t Dying

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Luke Ford

Henry Blodget blogs: You can’t go anywhere online these days with being affronted by yet another hand-wringing essay, speech, or diatribe about how screwed we will all be when "journalism" disappears (today’s is from Leonard Downie of the Washington Post).  … Continue reading →

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