In the Arena

Memorial Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In [...]

More On That “Internet Effect” Thing (Correction Appended)

One day, perhaps, some journalism school program will create a quarterly academic journal focused completely on the many ways that Matt Drudge continues to mess with the heads of the Fourth Estate. I have written on this a couple times before, here and here. So has everyone else. But since there are not yet any [...]

In the Arena

Lou Demagogue

Given the amount of serious journalism going on at CNN–the reporters risking their lives on battlefields all over the world, fine journalists like John King and Candy Crowley working to report the presidential campaign accurately, the excellent fact-checking that Wolf Blitzer did earlier this year on the Obama Madrasa smear–given all that and a nearly [...]

Olbermann’s Assassination Vacation

Egads: Okay, Keith, now tell us how you really feel…