by Gil Friend | Aug 12, 2003 | Politics
deLong discovers that ‘Matthew Yglesias’s weblog is fair and balanced’: If you’ve got a blog, please consider adding a ‘fair and balanced’ tag somewhere in recognition of Rupert Murdoch’s out of control litigiousness (tort...
by Gil Friend | Aug 12, 2003 | Politics
[Washington Post]: Apparently you may never speak the words ‘fair and balanced’ again. Fox ‘owns’ them — more IP gone amok — and is suing comedian and potential competitor Franken for using them. As far as the personal attacks go,...
by Gil Friend | Jul 30, 2003 | Politics
Ahnult weighs out (according to CNN on air, nothing on web yet), Jon Carroll weighs in: But generalizations about California roll off the backs of East Coast journalists like oil off a chrome fender. I remember one rather famous writer who came to California, stayed...
by Gil Friend | Jun 1, 2003 | Politics
Winston S. Churchill in relation to the power to intern ‘enemy aliens’ during the Second World War: The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his...
by Gil Friend | May 24, 2003 | Politics
Every now and then you find a conservative who’s really conservative, not just covering for bigger and bigger concentrations of power: Safire: The overwhelming amount of news and entertainment comes via broadcast and print. Putting those outlets in fewer and...
by Gil Friend | May 12, 2003 | Politics
Jon Carroll: We like to look as if we support our troops… It might be useful to look at the Bush record on issues of real concern to actual soldiers. According to the Canadian Web site Straightgoods.ca, the Bush administration (a) failed to protest when the...
