The Anchoress has performed an Act of Journalism this evening and had an e-mail conversation with a friend of hers who is a respected journalist. The conversation was about the “flushed Koran” story and what he has to say is very interesting. She does a good job of “intreviewing” him just by having a good [...]
This is breaking news and, quite honestly, about damned time. NEW YORK — Newsweek on Monday retracted a story alleging interrogators at Guantanamo flushed the Koran down a toilet in front of detainees. “Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at [...]
It looks like the New York Times is getting on board the “making crazy cash off the Intenet” in a fairly big way. The New York Times Co. on Monday said that, starting in September, access to Op-Ed and certain of its top news columnists on the paper’s NYTimes.com Web site will only be available [...]
In light of Newsweek’s statement that they were baffled by the Pentagon’s refusal to deny the “flushed Koran” story, I’d like to mention some other stories I expect to see in the magazine in the very near future. I have it on very good authority that these stories are true. I know these things because [...]
Newsweek’s “apology” gets even more baffling and incomprehensible today as Mark Whitaker takes to the newspapers to clarify his side of the story even more. Unfortunately, he’s not making things better. His stance is that they will not retract the story but are sorry they didn’t get all the facts correct. First, we have some [...]
Apropos of a post I wrote earlier in the week is Mary Steyn’s Sunday column on the John Bolton confirmation delays. As always, he says it far more artfully than I. He starts by giving you an interesting little statistic or two about those tsunami relief supplies America and other nations gave so generously: Five [...]
Newsweek has come out, for its May 23rd edition, with an apology of sorts for a story run on May 2nd which as sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The story, as I noted elsewhere here and here, is that an anonymous government official told two Newsweek reporters that, according to an investigators’ report [...]
Michael Ledeen reprints an e-mail he receives from one of his correspondents in Iran. It is from a leading Shi’ite cleric to Iranian Presidential candidate Rafsanjani. If this is true, it could be huge. I’ll give you the most explosive part. “You know like I do what lies behind this religion (Islam), after all this [...]
Loos like Mexican President Vincente Fox has stepped in it now…maybe. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Vicente Fox called recent U.S. measures to stem illegal immigration a step back for bilateral relations on Friday and said Mexican migrants do jobs “that not even blacks want to do.” In comments likely to raise the temperature [...]
Is this disingenuous reporting? Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules By ELI SANDERS SEATTLE, May 13 – Unsettled by a series of dry winters in this normally wet city, Mayor Greg Nickels has begun a nationwide effort to do something the Bush administration will not: carry out the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Mr. [...]
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