Media Bitchfest

Hey, I Don’t Steal Hitchens Columns

Okay, Timothy Noah of Slate decides to single out random lines in the New York Times and mock them:
The Dec. 4 New York Times contains the single stupidest sentence to appear in that newspaper since I began reading it more than three decades ago. It’s in a news story by Holli Chmela about the Kennedy […]

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Time May Change Me…

The Wall Street Journal is going to get a lot less staid, announcing today that they will be smaller (gasp) use actual color (double gasp) and feature picture interpretations of the day’s events known as graphics. As to be expected, there is the usual cavalcade of chatter surrounding the changes.
Also, there will be staff cuts […]

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MBF World News Weekly 12.1.06

In an uncertain world of turmoil and strife, whom can we turn to for a summery of happenings from this, our global village? The answer is Shaun Barnes, his column begins now…

Well folks, that’s it; it’s game over for North Korea. Although the spunky little Stalinist dictatorship had a good run from its great […]

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