Epistemic Closure And JournoList
JournoList may not have been a conspiracy, but it was an example of what you might call an the closing of the journalistic mind.
JournoList may not have been a conspiracy, but it was an example of what you might call an the closing of the journalistic mind.
Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.
It would appear that the only people who have confidence in the United States Congress are the people who work there.
Newt Gingrich says that because there are no churches in Riyadh, we shouldn’t allow a mosque in New York.
JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.
Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.
Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.
Electronic books outsold paper books on Amazon over the past three months, but the death of the hardcover is greatly exaggerated.
Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.
Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.
Yet another “hidden” provision of ObamaCare is revealed to hold nasty surprises for America’s small business owners.
Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.
Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?
Elena Kagan may be smiling because her confirmation is assured, but she doesn’t have as much public support as previous nominees.
Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.
In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.
Some Republicans seem to think they don’t need to put forward any actual ideas in order to win November.
Reports of Barack Obama’s political death are greatly exaggerated and wildly premature.
When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.
The Palin and Romney camps have already started trading barbs in what could be a preview of the race for the GOP nomination in 2012.
The results of a new poll may have President Obama worrying about 2012 already.
As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.
American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.
Former Vice-President Cheney has apparently entered a far grimmer phase of his chronic heart problems than many realized.
You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.
Over at The Daily Dish, Dave Weigel hit the nail on the head in his criticism of Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre obsession with a two year-old infant.