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November 16, 2005
Not missing Times Select (tm)
I was pretty angry when the New York Times announced its policy to charge, via Times Select, for access to its op-ed columns. Know what? Dowd and Krugman were usually good for a chuckle and Kristoff for a brief little surge of outrage, but I don't miss them a bit. I don't have any data to prove this, but it seems to me the New York Times' columnists are now less visible in the blogosphere.
Posted by johnn at 10:05 AM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2005
Frist/Hastert: misplaced anger
According to a Washington Post article today, Republicans want a probe to investigate the sources of the Washington Post's recent story about secret CIA prisons. Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert issued a statement saying "If accurate such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks."(from today's New York Times, which I won't bother to link because it will be inaccessible in a week).
I'm sure that's a mistake and that what these two patriots really meant to say was "If accurate the egregious behavior described in the disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks."
Judith Miller could have stayed in jail forever as far as I'm concerned, but I hope the Post doesn't give a millimeter on this one. This is what freedom of the press is designed to protect, not strategic leaking à la Miller/NYT.
Posted by johnn at 03:15 PM | Comments (1)
Intelligent Design Deemed Not in PA
Finding a few minutes away from the hospital where our son was born yesterday (see my personal blog) to cheer the defeat of eight anti-evolution school board members in Dover, PA, whose residents didn't want to be latest heirs to the Scopes jury!
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