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Category Archives: Journalism
Stalking Sarah Palin
I find that Slate.com’s Jack Shafer often articulates my inchoate instincts about journalism. I only have vague feelings about a lot of issues until Jack Shafer spells things out for me. I’m often accused of obsession in my blogging. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
Tagged female journalists, immersion journalism, jack shafer, journalistic investigation, Sarah Palin, skywriting
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Afraid To Upset Oprah
Margo Howard writes: The second thing you need to know about this book is that most of the kingpin interviewers in the mainstream media were astonishingly up front about saying they would not help Kitty promote her book because they … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Oprah
Tagged david letterman, joy behar, king charlie, mainstream media, margo howard, oprah letterman
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Delusions About Nixon & Watergate
Veteran journalist Alex Ben Block writes about his experience as a reborn and unrepentant journalist: “The great engine of investigative reporting, the independence that made Watergate a counter to Nixon’s Nazis, has stalled.” First of all, the comparison of Richard … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
Tagged bob woodward, bob woodward and carl bernstein, carl bernstein, down by law, richard nixon, veteran journalist
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Voice On Tape Clearly R. Leib Tropper
A poster named “Former Friend” writes: I have known, met with, spoken dozens and dozens of times to Leib Tropper over the past 30 years. His voice is very identifiable. His personality is very identifiable. It pained me to listen … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, Journalism, R. Leib Tropper
Tagged boruch, conservative clergy, credibility, immense power, jewish world, liberal jews, movers and shakers, NCSY, orthodox world, prestige, salvage, slifkin, unorthodox jew, vos iz neias
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Al Gore Confronts An Inconvenient Truth
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
Posted in Green, Journalism
Tagged al gore, climate change summit, former vice president, government scientists, new york times news, us vice president
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