Sarah Palin posed in gym shorts for a photo taken for Runner’s World magazine — and months later it shows up as the cover of Newsweek, for a story about Palin and politics.
The whole incident is being called unethical, sexist…
As you can imagine, we’ve watched the uproar closely in the wake of my blog post on Monday. I recounted the case of a person who lost his job at a local school after twice posting a vulgar comment on…
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to set the record straight about his office’s request to see a high school newspaper’s article about a speech he gave before its publication:
His office did ask to see the story, Kennedy says, but…
President Barack Obama’s weekend bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito seems to have created another polarizing moment for Americans.
Associated Press photo
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Monday that the bow was “a sign of respect to the emperor,” the Associated…
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Note: This is cross-posted from my personal blog.
A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday.
It all started with Friday’s edition of Talk of the Day, a regular blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website,…
A reader has asked why we haven’t labeled Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a terrorist.
The debate over this is going on throughout the media. Some critics, including some within the…
The media has suffered two black eyes in its reporting of the Fort Hood rampage, the editor of the media journal Editor & Publisher says in a commentary.
E&P Editor Greg Mitchell writes:
With the publication of an interview with Sgt. Mark Todd, the…
Decisions are ahead on two key issues: health care changes and whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Two new Gallup polls shows Americans are pretty much split on what should be done.
In a poll released today, Gallup reports:
More Americans now…
Newspapers around the country — including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — carried front-page stories last week hailing police Sgt. Kimblerly Munley as the hero who single-handedly brought down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in the rampage at Fort Hood. While Munley was…
After Lou Dobbs‘ surprising resignation from CNN Wednesday, what’s next in his professional career?
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz quotes a Fox News spokesman as saying the network hasn’t had discussions with Dobbs. The Los Angeles Times’ political blog Top of the…
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