This is just pathetic. LA Times staff writer Tim Rutten wrote a column which complains that weblogs are factually challenged. According to Rutten, Wednesday, for instance, Kaus posted an item on his personal site (www.kausfiles.com) praising former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee for allowing reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to publish their articles on…
June, 2002
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After promising for weeks that it would publish a stunning e-book by John Dean that would finally out Watergate source Deep Throat, Salon.Com and Dean chickened out. Dean was going to name White House Attorney Jonathan Rose, but Salon apparently feared a lawsuit from Rose and Dean claims a source told him at the last…
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American Atheists is sort of the nonbeliever counterpart to the Southern Baptist Convention — a bunch of fruitcakes who have managed to cement a number of stereotypes about atheists through their actions. This time around they’re angry that proposals for a 9/11 memorial might include a “cross.” Okay, it’s not really a cross. It’s just…
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Webcasters are already going off the air after the Librarian of Congress published the final fee structure for webcasting. The main effect of the rates are that many people who have set up small Internet broadcasts that reach at most hundreds of people will have to pay the same sort of royalty rates that major…
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s in the news again for supporting a Southern Baptist preacher who attacked Islam’s founder for being a “demon-possessed pedophile.” Rev. Jerry Vines, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, blamed religious pluralism in the United States for our nation’s many problems (what problems?) Vines said, They would have us believe…
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My hometown paper, the Kalamazoo Gazette, had a small front space on the front page to fill so they rewrote an Associated Press story which in turn simply rewrote a press release from an advocacy group with an astonishing finding — it turns out that fast food isn’t good for you. Now I know most…
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This article in which the folks at SpinSanity really annoyed me because it was the latest in a trend that has happened ever since SpinSanity reached an agreement with Salon.Com — it’s been engaging in the same spinning that it criticizes politicians for. George W. Bush has been pointing out that during the campaign he…
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The University of California at San Diego is currently trying to suppress a student-published satire newsletter in a case that is truly unbelievable. At UCSD there is a nutty extremist Hispanic group called MEChA. In 1995, MEChA was involved in a bit of a free speech controversy involving its newspaper, Voz Fronteriza. After a Latino…
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Glenn Frazier has one of the moreinteresting posts in the interminable debate among some webloggers over their traffic (as I’ve said before, I think most of those claims are meaningless since they rely on bogus metrics like unique visitors). Frazier focuses on what drives traffic to weblog sites, especially how links from well-trafficked site translate…
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Back in January 2001, anti-gun activist Sarah Brady issued a statement condemning Michigan Gov. John Engler for signing a concealed carry law. Brady promised that, “Mark my words: this insult to caring Michigan citizens will not go unnoticed, and will not be forgotten.” What has largely been forgotten, however, is Brady’s alarmist rhetoric. July marks…