OK, maybe the only place where size counts is in sumo wrestling. After reading a reporter’s account of what it took to cover the Tour de France, however, I was reminded of the size of the platform it takes for some stories to get told.
It’s not that newpaper reporters are typically smarter or harder working or whatever than bloggers and others in the non-MSM. (more…)
Janus, the Roman's great unifier god, used its two faces and other attributes to reconcile past and future, fact and fiction and more. The result is a divine clarity that might have benefited Richard Blumenthal.
Candidate’s Words on Vietnam Differ From History.
I can’t help but wonder who wrote this headline for an article in this morning’s New York Times. An editor?
More likely, it was the paper’s corporate counsel.
A lawyer would be more sensitive to referring to Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s attorney general, as a liar. Even though that’s what you may rightly call someone who offers *facts* which they know aren’t factual.
Politics aside, this headline bothered me. At least initially. It bothered me for its lack of clarity and its unwillingness to confront the distorted facts cleanly.
The more I thought about this, however, the more I wised up and calmed down. First, (more…)
