There’s nothing our commenters like to discuss more than media ethics and standards — or rather, the lack of them. Amid that ongoing MSM v. blogosphere war, Joe’s link last week to Deborah Howell’s Washington Post ombudsman column about commenters really got them going. Deborah has another column this week. This time, I think, our [...]
The New York Times does some actual reporting on the health care system in Cuba. This doesn’t mean that the current U.S. system is at all tolerable. We need a universal system, and now. (Regular Swampland readers know that I favor the individual mandate, community rated system that Senator Ron Wyden has proposed.) But the [...]
Two extremely important, and contradictory, pieces about Iraq today. Both true. Andrew Bacevich on the combat death of his son in the Washington Post. A variety of experts in the US and Iraq on the difficulty of a withdrawal now in the New York Times Bacevich: The people have spoken, and nothing of substance has [...]
