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Monthly Archives: May 2010
The BP Spill Is Not as Complicated as David Brooks Wants You to Think
David Brooks (New York Times, 5/28/10) informs us that the idea that "government should have more control over industry" is one of the "predictably partisan and often puerile" reactions to the oil spill. The lesson that smart people derive from … Continue reading
NYT: Credulous Pakistanis See U.S. as a Menace!
Are Pakistanis more gullible than other people? That's what the New York Times would have you believe. In a front page May 26 article, "U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan's Conspiracy Talk," the Times reports that "Conspiracy theory is … Continue reading
Managed News From the Gulf of Mexico
A troubling article from Newsweek (5/26/10) reports on efforts by both BP and government officials to limit media access to the aftermath of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: As BP makes its latest attempt to plug … Continue reading
Washington Post (Again) on the Debt Revolt
Last week the Washington Post informed us that voters are "up in arms over the mounting federal debt"– and thus politicians were being forced to scale back a newbill that would, among other things, extend unemployment benefits and send money … Continue reading
Baltic Money Is Doing Great! Baltic People, Well…
In a piece about European countries adopting austerity measures in response to the Greek financial crisis, the New York Times (5/26/10) acknowledges that some people think this is a terrible idea: In most European capitals, the case for fiscal rectitude … Continue reading
Thomas Friedman Doesn't Get Much Uglier Than This
Thomas Friedman is upset in his New York Times column today (5/26/10) because Brazilian President Lula da Silva negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran. Asks Friedman, "Is there anything uglier than watching democrats sell out other democrats to a Holocaust-denying, … Continue reading
Cokie Roberts Defines 'Mainstream'
One of the most prevalent (and wrong-headed) interpretations of the recent elections is that both parties are dumping their respectablemembers in exchange for wild-eyed radicals. As Cokie Roberts explained iton ABC's This Week (5/23/10): COKIE ROBERTS: I'm not sure, Donna, … Continue reading
Kristof's 'Simplest Option' for Ending Poverty: Blame the Poor
In his May 23 column–"Moonshine or the Kids?"–New York Times columnist Nick Kristof has hit upon the "simplest option" for keeping poor African kids in school (and ending malaria): getting their fathers to stop drinking, smoking and whoring. There's an … Continue reading
WaPo Editor Wants a War Debate–Somewhere Else
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt wrote a piece today (5/24/10) headlined, "In the Absence of Debate, Iraq and Afghanistan Go Unnoticed." Hiatt laments the silence surrounding U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ponders whether "the absence of … Continue reading
At the NYT, Some Pols Mislead, Others Imagine
The New York Times is being criticized for selective editing in its reporting on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's misleading accounts of his military record–the paper posted on its website a clip of a speech where the Democratic Senate candidate … Continue reading
Covering Africa Through Celebrities, Exhibit Eleventy Million
NBC reporter Ann Curry's fawning interview with actor Ben Affleck (NBC Nightly News, 5/19/10), about his celebrity activist work in the Congo, is downright embarrassing: CURRY: Why do you pick the place that people think is actually one of the … Continue reading
NYT Tale on Oil Spill: From Bad to Worse
The New York Times ran a story on May 4 that advanced a rather unusual argument: BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill was probably bad, but not that bad. Helping the paperflesh out that line was a group called the … Continue reading
A Lousy Year to Be a Democrat–If You've Been a Republican for 44 Years Before That
I've commented before on the corporate media's tendency to cherry-pick election results to illustrate their favorite political moral: that Democrats need to move to the right. Still, I was surprised, after a day of voting in which there was one … Continue reading