Mainstream Media Obsessed with Sex, Sex, Sex!
Cernig is outraged at the sex-obsessed American press. I am now officially disgusted with America's insular and navel-gazing punditry. En masse and on a bipartisan basis the media, commentators and bloggers have decided that the Edwards Affair story is more important than events in South Ossetia. What happened, folks, did your minds cloud over at contemplation of events beyond these hallowed ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 9, 2008 18:50
Mahdi Army Transforming into Salvation Army?
The Mahdi Army might soon be the Iraqi equivalent of the Salvation Army, Gina Chon reports for the Wall Street Journal. Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr -- long a thorn in the side of the U.S. military and Iraqi government -- intends to disarm his once-dominant Mahdi Army militia and remake it as a social-services organization. The transformation would represent a significant turnabout ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 5, 2008 12:14
WSJ Firing 50 Editors, Hiring 95 Reporters
David Kaplan reports on a big shake-up at Wall Street Journal: WSJ is cutting 50 editorial positions as it moves to reform editing functions across print, online and mobile, according to a staff memo written by Robert Thomson, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). paper’s managing editor. The Global News, Global Copy, Global Pagination, Monitor and the stand alone WSJ.com editing desks ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 16, 2008 18:52
Hyperlocal News Fails Without Locals
WSJ points to the failure of so-called 'hyperlocal' news portals, focusing on a WaPo venture. For believers in the power of rigorous local coverage to help save newspapers, the Washington Post's launch of LoudounExtra.com last July was a potentially industry-defining event. It paired a journalistic powerhouse with a dream team of Internet geeks to build a virtual town square ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 5, 2008 09:38
Is It Time to Invade Burma?
Romesh Ratnesar takes to the pages of TIME to ask, in apparent seriousness, "Is It Time to Invade Burma?" The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the stricken areas ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 11, 2008 09:18
Sorenson Admits ‘Profiles in Courage’ Role
Ted Sorenson has finally admitted that he had a large role in writing Profiles in Courage, for which John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize as a solo author. According to a Wall Street Journal review, Sorensen says, for the first time, that he "did a first draft of most chapters," "helped choose the words of many of its sentences" and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 9, 2008 14:45
Poll: Bush a Liability for McCain
A new NBC/WSJ poll shows that being seen as too close to George W. Bush is bringing John McCain down. I'm pretty sure that Peter Hart and Neil Newhouse already knew that, since I did, but it's good to put a number on these things (43 percent, as it turns out). Other interesting findings: 36 percent have major concerns that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 1, 2008 06:56
McCain Hires Pollster McInturff
John McCain has re-hired Bill McInturff and his team at Public Opinion Strategies to conduct his polling. Sen. John McCain, still rebuilding his presidential campaign after last summer’s near-bankruptcy and staff upheaval, has re-enlisted respected veteran Bill McInturff as his pollster. McInturff, co-founder of the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies, has been the Arizona senator’s pollster since the early 1990s and worked ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 11, 2008 06:08
Katie Couric - CBS News Divorce Imminent
CBS plans to oust Katie Couric from the anchor chair of the "Evening News" soon after the election, Rebecca Dana reports for WSJ. After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 10, 2008 08:03
Obama Denounces Pastor, Continuing Circular Firing Squad
Barack Obama has denounced his pastor of twenty years, the man who performed his wedding ceremony, baptized his children, and served as the inspiration for his best-selling book, because his inflammatory comments got picked up in the press and caused him some political embarrassment. In the handful of years Senator Barack Obama has spent in the national spotlight, his stance ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 15, 2008 06:31
