There seems to be a strange subtext in some press stories hinting that the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, Nidal Malik Hasan, had psychological problems or motivations of a kind that would somehow render his acts inconsistent with terrorism or with Islamic terrorism. Does the press realize that the psychological profile of a typical […]
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Left/Right bloggers agree: Economy will be top issue in 2010. Disagree on WH war on Fox
This week’s National Journal poll of political bloggers asked “What will be the top two issues in the midterm elections?” Enormous majorities on both the Left and the Right picked “Economy/jobs” as the expected top issue. On the Left, “health care reform” came in second, far ahead of the third-place “deficit/big government.” The issues of Afghanistan […]
Revising Web-based Newspaper Articles Without Informing Readers – NYT Edition
The original version of an NYT story on President Obama’s visit to the dover Air Force Base included a paragraph characterizing the trip as a staged event, “intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.” At some point, however, this […]
Are Books the New Magazines?
According to Tina Brown, they are – in an interview in today’s Financial Times about her website, The Daily Beast. This is an elliptical addition to Eugene’s posts about e-books and new legal book technologies. I’m sure many legal academics, myself included, have wondered how, along the way in the last couple of years, things […]
Appellate court dismisses Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS
LA TIMES BLOG: More than two years after Dan Rather filed a $70-million lawsuit against CBS for breach of contract and fraud, a New York Supreme Court appellate division has tossed out his claim. The ruling, handed down today, dismissed Rather’s claims that CBS News broke his contract and committed fraud by sidelining him in […]