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Sunday brought forth an LATimes
op-ed column from one Michael Skube
criticizing bloggers, and lionizing "old-fashioned
gumshoe reporting." Later that same day, one of the bloggers
specifically
mentioned in the op-ed, Josh Marshall, contacted the
author to object and out came the author's admission that he had
never actually read Marshall's blog. Comments Marshall:
… it seems Skube's editor at the Times oped page didn't think he had enough specific examples in his article decrying our culture of free-wheeling assertion bereft of factual backing. Or perhaps any examples. So the editor came up with a few blogs to mention and Skube signed off. And Skube was happy to sign off on the addition even though he didn't know anything about them.
Is that irony? I can never tell. [Via Prof Althouse. Another blogger mentioned, Matthew Yglesias, offers additional corrections and advice.] -
My employer (the University of New Hampshire) is held up for ridicule
at Phi Beta Cons. Probably deserved.
At the same blog, David French weighs
in—heh—with his previous experience with
UNH.
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Your tax dollars at work
rescuing America's Subways from consequences
of terrorist attacks. Also,
America's Dunkin' Donuts.
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders bills himself as a "democratic socialist."
A perspicacious editorial writer at the St. Johnsbury VT Caledonian-Record notices just
what that means when he examined the clientele at a recent "listening
session" held by Senator Sanders:
Presumably, Sen. Sanders intends to listen to the people he has professed to represent since he became an office holder - the dispossessed, the disenfranchised, the poor and low income people, blue collar people, generally, who aren't heard and don't understand the machinations of capitalists. The trouble with Tuesday's gathering was that there wasn't a poor person, or a dispossessed person, or a dirt farmer, or a frayed blue collar worker within a mile of the place. Who was there? The president of Jay Peak Resort, the mayor of Newport, state senators and representatives, selectmen from several towns, and many representatives of and from agencies that live off federal tax dollars.
… all with their hands out for more, of course.
Aug
20
2007
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