Category Archives: Blogging

What Ails The MSM

I write for the Los Angeles Times to KTLA reporter Eric Spillman in the last edition of our "Dust-Up": Dear Eric, I expect that in a hundred years people will look back on our dialogue as the great leap forward … Continue reading

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Bloggers Don’t Have To Fit Copy To A Limited Space

Mickey Kaus writes on Slate.com: We don’t kill no widows in these parts: Note to NYT’s Andrew Adam Newman: That’s my quote, buddy–which explains why Steven den Beste, to whom you attribute it, had those two little marks on either … Continue reading

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Bill Boyarsky: ‘The Mayor is cheating … on L.A.’

Boyarsky writes in the Jewish Journal: I was disappointed because he offered hope for uniting a fractious city behind some common goals important to the middle class and poor — the majority of the city’s residents, which includes many Jews … Continue reading

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Reporting Shades Of Truth

From LATimes.com: How should media organizations deal with assertions by public figures that they know or strongly suspect to be deceptive? All this week, blogger Luke Ford and KTLA reporter Eric Spillman debate ethics, credibility and high-profile snafus in the … Continue reading

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Cheeky Blog’s Jewish Obsession Strikes a Funny Bone of Contention

Gabriel Sanders writes: For regular Gawker readers, Balk’s posts were nothing out of the ordinary — studiously irreverent, rich with Jewish-themed cracks and sheathed in a layer of irony so thick that any and all criticism comes off sounding daft, … Continue reading

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