New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has been on vacation, but now’s she back, with plenty to say about this and that, including the recent NYT profile of Washington Post editor Katy Weymouth. Maggie quotes Times reader (and former Newsweek editor) Ed Kosner as wondering “how The Times managed to publish a bouquet to…
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The Grahams: Lest we forget
As the Graham family “stewardship” of the Washington Post fades into the sunset, it’s worth recalling a few things—more than a few, actually, before Jeff Bezos, aka the $25 billion man, takes over . The Post first made its modern reputation as an ass-kicking defender of the public’s right to know by publishing the “Pentagon…
Katy to Jill: I don’t need no lousy, stinkin’ mouth to mouth!
No, she doesn’t, not when the Graham family is sitting on the $250 million Jeff Bezos has ponied up to buy the venerable Washington Post. How long Katy will remain as publisher of the Post is undetermined—my guess is, not very long. She got the job exclusively on family ties and her tenure has been…
This Town boring as this town
This Town, New York Timesman Mark Leibovich’s shocking piss-and-tell, chattering class takedown of the chattering class is, in fact, causing a lot of chatter amidst the chattering class. Old DC hand Lois Romano goes full chattering class in this exercise in suppressed hysteria, accusing “Leibo” of undermining the networks of “dinner parties and receptions [where]…
Oy, those crafty country folk!
Aviva Shen of ClimateProgress notes a distinct lack of progress in programs designed to encourage farmers to conserve water. Shen points us to a New York Times story by Ron Nixon, “Farm Subsidies Leading to More Water Use,” which gives us the inside skinny: Millions of dollars in farm subsidies for irrigation equipment aimed at…
Barack Obama, sending the Machiavel to school. Again.
Is there glee in the White House over the latest revelations of National Security Agency mega-snooping? I wouldn’t be surprised. Sen. Rand Paul has another arrow in his quiver, and daddy Ron Paul even praised leaker Ron Snowden, saying that Snowden has “done a great service for telling the truth.” That kind of crazy talk…
Calling Justice Scalia
I don’t know if Nino can protect me, but I’m putting through a call on, yes, my Verizon cell. Obama only wants to protect me, of course, regardless of what that awful Glenn Greenwald has to say. Or that awful New York Times. One can hope that reaction to this latest outrage will be the first step…
The gang that shoots straight, and often
A week after an FBI agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, the story of what happened is coming out, sort of, although what we’ve been “given” consists entirely of anonymous leaks. This follows the shooting by Boston police of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—unarmed, like Todashev—and the shooting and killing of his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev,…
Solar Panels—the drama continues
Was ever an industry so fraught as the solar panel industry? Spectacular flameouts of Obama-subsidized, Obama-connected, state-of-the-art, industry-of-tomorrow outfits like the renowned though now alas defunct Solyndra, charges and counter-charges of “unlawful” subsidies (i.e., bigger, or at least more effective than ours) made by, among, and between the U.S., Europe, and China, and now perhaps the…
The Education of Fred Kaplan
You’ve got to hand it to Fred: he’s not turning his back on Afghanistan, no matter how crappy it gets. Long ago, I used to ridicule Fred for his Pollyanna reports on our cool weaponry, including a 15-ton “Guided Multiple-Launch Rocket System” that, Fred insisted, people called the “70-kilometer sniper round,” which, coupled with our…