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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Harvard Man, Ross Douthat is the latest hire for The New York Times. Naturally his biggest fan, Robert Stacy McCain is celebrating:
(Gritted teeth.) Congratulation, Ross! We’re all so excited for you!
Now excuse me while I go swallow a bottle of sleeping pills, wash it down with a quart of Chlorox, slash my wrists, get in [...]
Filed under: Announcements, media
John Derbyshire’s cover story for the latest issue of TAC, taking aim at Limbaugh, Hannity, and rest of the right-wing squawkers, is now online. Enjoy!
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines, media
We put two new articles on-line yesterday, Michael Brendan Dougherty’s “Mormons at the Door” and my own “Our Enemy, the President.” Michael’s piece reveals the critical role the Church of Latter Day Saints played in passing California’s Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriage. On the back of that victory, will evangelicals now accept the LDS [...]
With reports circulating of its imminent demise, the New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight.
Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent of the sinking Times and was investing $250 million in notes carrying 14 percent interest, was Carlos Slim. Reputedly the richest man in [...]
Filed under: Immigration, media
The firing of Nat Hentoff from the Village Voice felt like a criminal act when it happened last December. He was one of the most talented, principled, and unpredictable voices in liberalism. He was also accessible; you could look him up in any NYC phonebook.
This morning I was delighted to hear that this defender of [...]
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