Category: Media Say the Darndest Things

Reuters: “Hundreds of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, rocket launchers and bomb-making equipment have been uncovered inside couches, behind hidden walls and even on top of the city water tower, Marine officers said.” –Glass? Last thing you’d suspect!

In PressThink: Not Up to It, Jay Rosen predicts a sea change in the journalism’s ability to explain itself.

Wow. James Wolcott nails the hypocrisy of upper-class journalists trying to fit in with the jes’ folks phonies: Howling Wolf: “Democrats like Gore and Kerry have to weigh and calibrate their every move because one ill-chosen word or phrase or gesture will be tattooed across their fore[head] by the media’s trained monkeys. I mean, Kerry…

I love the abrupt juxtaposition of styles in this AFP article, where the gray grit of war slides suddenly into comfy corporate pastel. I leave it to you to decide where the transition seems to occur. This is an unbroken quote from the article. “Four Turkish nationals have been executed at the hands of hostage-takers…

I’ve been extra-super-special repulsed by Drudge’s coverage this week (with apologies, I just can’t stand to throw a link to this guy). There’s been a different piece of tear-them-down news for every cycle, all timed so evenly you have to figure it was all drawn out well ahead of the convention in color-coded crayon —…

Slate is being very sporting in the way that it’s reporting its own gullibility in this article. It seems that they promoted a poster in their “fray” discussion are to the Diary role and did not percieve that he was playing fast and loose about his identity and his professional affiliations.