None of you seem to mind my obsession with Ambergate, so I’m going to give it one more whack. Ambinder wrote: And yet — we, too, weren’t privy to the intelligence. Information asymmetry is always going to exist, and, living as we do in a Democratic system, most journalists are going to give the government …
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To err is human, to correct is divine
The whole “who’s a worse fact checker, bloggers or the MSM” debate can get tiresome, but I’d like to revisit it anyway. Matt Yglesias: Apparently on his show earlier today, Chris Matthews was talking about the future of journalism and worried that “the bloggers don’t fact-check.” I find myself consistently surprised by how frequently this …
Effective and disconnected
James Fallows has a very interesting take on Betsy McCaughey’s appearance on Jon Stewart: As I mentioned this morning, I thought Betsy McCaughey was even more blithely disconnected from the world of reality than I had expected — but that she was weirdly “effective” against Jon Stewart, since there was no way to shame her …
Wrong ’em boyo
Marcy Wheeler destroys Marc Ambinder for saying that he was right to be wrong about the Bush politicization of terror alert. Here’s Ambinder (he later added a weasely addendum): Journalists, including myself, were very skeptical when anti-Bush liberals insisted that what Ridge now says is true, was true. We were wrong. Our skepticism about the …
Roseanne the Riveter & the New Guilted Age
Looks like the new Media Village talking point has been distributed: Americans don’t deserve a decent health care system because we are disgusting fat pigs. There’s a point (around 3:00) in the MSNBC clip John posted earlier where Taibbi talks about America’s relatively high infant mortality rate and low life expectancy, and Maria Bartiromo interrupts to snarl, “We’re …
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Where Do They Find These People?
So the WSJ has an op-ed from an anesthesiologist allegedly discussing health care reform, and I figured I would listen to his opinion. I figure his specialty is one in which, like obstetrics and neurosurgery, there are really high malpractice premiums and lots of lawsuits, so I thought that would be his main complaint. Sadly, …
I’ll take things you won’t hear about on “Morning Joe” for $500, Alex
As Atrios says, no surprise: Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head …
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