Tag Archives: Media

The comic strip Dilbert was censored on September 6, 2005. At least, it was in my local paper.

Jack Shafer of Slate and Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post are doing excellent work amid this chaos.

Recently I read the cover story in Newsweek sensationalizing the spread of meth across the country. Publications that should know better have done a terrible job covering the issue, many calling it an “epidemic”. For more on that see Slate’s good piece on the topic of why drug reporting is, …

I have seen some excellent media coverage of the storm disaster and its impact and a great deal of terribly sensationalistic coverage. I thought I’d take a moment to point to two stories that I think are excellent, the kind of journalism I would have been proud to have run …

Figuring out the problem is a problem we need to stop having a problem with.

Bush and O'Reilly reach a new low.

I wrote this the day Cindy Sheehan left Crawford to attend to her mother. Whether Michelle Malkin grew a heart or just got distracted by other news and – now – trying to out-do others in reporting on Katrina… that I don’t know. Either way, I’m just glad the ugly …

Hey, animals are people too. Well, no, actually, but they can be friends, even best friends, and in a time of crisis they deserve our attention too. Thousands of animals were left behind when their humans evacuated. Best Friends Animal Society is doing its best to coordinate the efforts of …

Ornamental vocabulary plug-ins help to add colour, but they have a tendency to override the commonsense attributes...

Social stereotypes and race issues in contemporary America