Via Andrew Sullivan:
A reader notes:
This is fantastic. If you go to The Corner right now:
- The number of times the words “health care” is mentioned: 7
- The number of times the word “Iraq” is mentioned: 15
- The number of times Rev. Wright is mentioned: 230
And no, I’m not kidding.
I bet you’re not.
Andrew puts it off […]
My apologies for having dropped off-line without a word.
The pandering, back-biting, and spin in the Democratic primary has become so bad, though, that I really can’t even read about it anymore without fighting a gag reflect — much less write about it.
Rather than adding to the stupidity online, I decided to pick my camera back […]
Last week, I wrote about the near-abduction of an 11-year-old boy in north Houston, and how the largest news organization in this area omitted any reference to the at-large suspect’s race or ethnicity (and incidentally? clothes).
The Chronicle’s stance was, and is, a problem… but so is this:
An 11-year-old boy who claimed he was nearly abducted […]
Not long ago, I was talking to my mother about blogging. She’d recently started a blog of her own — at age 70! — and was worried about comments… commenters… privacy… all the natural concerns someone might have who’d never ventured online.
I told her that through the comments, by reaching across to other […]
As a general rule, I agree with how Houston’s only local newspaper handles race and ethnicity in its reporting. But every now and again, they’re flat-out wrong.
Like this time.