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  • What I tell you three times is true

    ''But meeting her at a Beverly Hills hotel in the early hours of the morning and running from tabloid reporters when approached and hiding in a hotel bathroom for 15 minutes, as the Enquirer reports Edwards did, is not completely OK.'' A reasonable person isn't disposed to believe the Enquirer when it prints that the sky is blue. Pointing out ...
    Posted to Press Box by Laertes on July 24, 2008

  • More "Elvis on Mars?"

    This story sounds extremely hard to believe. Supposedly the Enquirer paparazzi had the hotel staked out. This would have necessitated someone on the inside blowing the whistle on the supposed assignation, a bit hard to believe. How would anyone but Edwards, McGovern and Hunter know what rooms she had rented. The hotel wouldn't give out that ...
    Posted to Press Box by Kropotkin on July 24, 2008

  • If you post something and nobody reads it, is it published?

    Well, that’s news. I didn’t know of the disproportionate representation on the internet for fiction and poetry. I couldn’t wait; I jumped over and googled “news” and got 3.95 billion hits while “fiction” and “poetry” got 197 million and 168 million hits respectively. Other googling got the following hits: “politics”/425 million, “opinion”/411 ...
    Posted to Press Box by scout29c on June 30, 2008

  • Re: Pathetic.

    Yes, it's so wrong to deprecate your Sunday morning entertainment with a critical examination of the hero of the hour, a loss felt by 3.8 million viewers bonding over the depth of character and integrity that epitomize both television and politics in our age. Morons have no place in civil discoure. Go away, morons. Some of us are in mourning. ...
    Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 21, 2008

  • Re: Saint Tim

    I absolutely respect his family's private mourning, and his colleagues' and professional acquaintances' public tribute, but the quote from Rutten from the L.A. Times points to how insular and, as Rutten says, ''incestuous . . . the Washington-based nexus of politics and journalism has become.'' The cover was pulled back a bit when Russert ...
    Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 17, 2008

  • Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep

    Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
    Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008

  • Really bad journalism

    I won't waste space pointing out how badly Jack Shafer misunderstands both the NYT's data and the studies he thinks ''debunk'' the NYT story. Other posters have already done a thorough job of that. What I am worried about is the integrity of Slate. Doubtless the editors are patting themselves on the back for posting such a ''provocative'' story ...
    Posted to Press Box by mattcliff on January 28, 2008

  • The Best Political Team on Television

    I don't watch much news on television, but I often watch ''Late Edition'' on Sunday, featuring Wolf Blitzer and the best.... I think he sometimes cites some award or other, but I thought it was for that particular show on CNN, not all of CNN. It is rather grating to hear his chant over and over. True, Blitzer is an upbeat fellow, no matter how ...
    Posted to Press Box by gmath309 on January 10, 2008

  • Smartest story? Hardly.

    Come on Jack. Is there an anti-drug war story you don't like? I bought RS on your recommendation and the story is very good...for getting me to sleep at night. It's almost as long as the drug war itself. I like reading things that tell me things I don't already know. This story doesn't. It's just grist for those 40- and 50-year-olds who still ...
    Posted to Press Box by mindbomber on December 10, 2007

  • St. Valentine Day’s Massacre (Deja vu all over again)

    I read that when the infamous gangland killings occurred, many who felt prohibition was not working became sure it was not working and the cost in the crime of supplying illegal alcohol was much worse than cost of its legal use and adverse affect on society. The brutality of the story marked prohibition’s death knell. I keep waiting for such an ...
    Posted to Press Box by scout29c on December 3, 2007
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