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No matter with what skill the great manage to seem other than they are, they cannot conceal their malignity.
–Jean de la Bruyere, Characters
That implicit credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed.
–Sir William Hamilton
After a brief, nominal flirtation with the ideal of objectivity the political press is poised to revert to [...]
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not by [...]
Filed under: Culture, Law, Politics, Religion, liberties, media
I missed this from Tuesday, but it’s worth noting. It seems that Ralph Peters is skeptical of the new Petraeus-franchised COIN doctrine — but not for the same reasons say Prof. Andrew Bacevich is.
Andrew Exum, the fresh face of COIN and moderator of a blog dedicated to its acolytes, took rigorous notes at an exclusive [...]
The idea of saving the media is never going to get a bad press. This morning I went to an interesting New America Foundation conference entitled “Who Pays for the News?” The event was well attended, mostly by nervous looking journos uncertain about their futures. There was an almost palpable sense of goodwill toward the [...]
Filed under: media
Dennis, I wish I had blogged about “The Thick of It” and “In the Loop”, yet sadly no. Perhaps you were thinking of Stuart Reid, who recently wrote about the new film in his excellent column.
As you say, “The Thick of It,” the TV series, is wonderful - a hilarious (and distressingly accurate) satire on [...]
Filed under: media
I was certain that Freddy Gray had mentioned here earlier what is possibly the best television program ever made, Armando Ianucci’s devastating satire of British politics The Thick of It (possibly NSFW for language), but cannot find it this morning. Nonetheless I advise anybody who reads or writes for The American Conservative to see it, and keep [...]
Remember last year’s story about Samantha Power calling Hillary Clinton “a monster?” No? Well, that’s no surprise. It wasn’t exactly “scoop of the year,” was it?
Except that, hang on …
The Scottish Press Awards ’scoop of the year’ gong has been given to Gerri Peev, a reporter on the Edinburgh-based Scotsman, who wrote up a [...]
Filed under: media
Uh oh. “Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts announced Monday that he will chair a subcommittee hearing on the future of journalism.”
“An independent news media is vital to our democracy,” Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, said in a statement Monday evening. “The history of our Republic [...]
Filed under: media
Shorter Andrew Breitbart(via Big Hollywood): Obama won because leftwing trolls wrote mean comments on conservative blogs and conservatives play too nice:
A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
The video of Dan Hannan verbally assaulting Gordon Brown at the European Parliament is still whistling around the Internet. Indeed, the clip is currently one of YouTube’s most popular posts (more than 700, 000 viewings in just over a day). And Fox News has even described Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament and a [...]