Monthly Archives: May 2012

Pleasant surprise on birth control

 Since big media get our brickbats for reporting irresponsibly, when coverage is notably responsible they deserve a bouquet. What a pleasant surprise to see the Sunday Denver Post on May 20, a week after Mother’s Day, veer off its customary secularist-feminist … Continue reading

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It all started when he hit me back

You don’t have to care about where President Obama was born (and I don’t, it’s utterly moot) to find it newsworthy that he and his sponsors and handlers are and long have been (newest dateline, 1991) willing to endlessly, shamelessly … Continue reading

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Speaking of uncivil

Newspapers are free to take sides, always have been.  But what happened to the journalistic convention of separating the editorial page from the news columns, and flagging on the latter any departure from just-the-facts as “analysis” or “opinion”?   The … Continue reading

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