Contrarian Pundit

For those of you who, like me, are sickened by David Remnick’s fawning hagiography of Barack Obama, I recommend this scathing review by Rick MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine and my former boss, in the Spectator (UK). As a former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, MacArthur is especially attuned to the problem of Obama’s [...]

Basic principles of journalism are supposed to be upheld at all times, no matter what story is being covered.  But in our debased era, we see our top newspapers compromise those principles to follow the prevailing political winds.
We witnessed this trend in Judith Miller’s coverage of WMDs for the New York Times.  And now we [...]

The most popular posts on The Huffington Post at 5:45 p.m., Wednesday, April 14, 2010:

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Time is busy preparing its mag to be iPad-compatible, so that it can deliver articles to your iPad about … the iPad:
I was something of a skeptic about the iPad myself until I held one in my hands when Jobs came here to do a presentation at Time Inc. We’ve chosen to put Jobs on [...]

Here’s a reliable journalistic rule of thumb: whenever a power broker suffers public ridicule, a slew of profiles is certain to follow. It can’t be an accident when our elite publications run similar articles about the same subject at the same time. It requires some orchestration.
Here’s how it works: After refusing media [...]