Weekly Standard editor William Kristol was fired from ABC’s This Week at the behest of the liberal media conspiracy. That, at any rate, is the contention of conservative columnist Mona Charen, who writes that “most chat shows have ratios of liberals to conservatives in the neighborhood of 3 to 2” and “the number of liberal […]
Nicholas Confessore
Nicholas Confessore is a reporter for The New York Times. Previously he was an American Prospect senior correspondent and an editor of The Washington Monthly.
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Citing the Right
Considering last year’s frenzied coverage of Monicagate and then the sniping coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, one might wonder what has happened to the Great Liberal Media Conspiracy. If the myth is not yet buried, here’s another nail for the coffin: A study released in June by Fairness & Accuracy in […]
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Conspiracies for Fools for Scandal
The New York Times is known for its scrupulous approach to assigning book reviews, frequently disqualifying reviewers who have even the most tenuous personal or professional links to a book’s author or authors. It was surprising, then, when the Times assigned Neil Lewis, a well-regarded political reporter at the paper’s D.C. bureau, to review Joe […]
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Hacked to Death:
Generally speaking, newspaper column writing is today a moribund art form. Gone are the days when crusty reporters would ascend to the ranks of the thrice-weekly (or even daily) columnists only after years of dues paying, bringing with them the shoe-leather skills, wit, and wisdom of a career spent in the trenches. More and more […]
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The Times’ Emission Omission
The greatest ideological bias of the mainstream media, as any serious person can tell you, is towards the center — and especially towards politicians who conspicuously, and piously, claim the label “moderate.” These are the virtuous pragmatists who, we’re told, are cutting through the gridlock, getting things done, reaching across the partisan divide, etc. The […]
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What It Takes:
If there are standards of truth or honesty in journalistic commentary, The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page abandoned them long ago. Sadly, the board that administers the Pulitzer Prizes does not agree. Last year, a Pulitzer jury handed the prize for commentary to the Journal‘s Paul Gigot, a man who, in his columns on the […]
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Should Bush Shape the Bench?
There are about 93 vacancies in the federal court system today, and next month, George W. Bush is likely to announce his first batch of nominees to fill them. That there are so many vacancies is not, however, a matter of happenstance. For six years, Republicans in the Senate employed every trick in the book […]
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Hillary Was Right
When Hillary Clinton went on the Today show in early 1998 to defend her husband against the malefactions of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” she was pitied and disparaged in roughly equal measure. Rightly so: Her husband, it turned out, was dallying with an intern less than half his age. And while the president has garnered […]
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Naked in the Valley
Po Bronson’s The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley 12.02.99 | reviewed by Nicholas Confessore ‘Tis the season for mainstream magazines-Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek-to finally run cover stories on that newest of old trends, e-commerce. Skip them. You are unlikely to find a more vivid or readable tour of Silicon […]
