Poynter discusses the ethics of journalistic blogging: immediacy vs. accuracy, credibility, and all those other buzzwords. I have some strong beliefs about journalism and blogging — and I’ve gotten in trouble for it before. I wish that the discussion had addressed the libel and slander issues involved in journalistic blogging — am I liable for [...]

A friend of mine asked me if I had caught this — and I hadn’t. From President Bush’s April 14th news conference, the following quote provided by ABCNews.com: “Some of the debate really centers around the fact that people don’t believe Iraq can be free; that if you’re Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can’t be [...]

Truthout‘s William Rivers Pitt’s eloquent Should we stay or should we go now explanation of the situation in Iraq. Even more frightening than a rational explanation of the various fighting factions in Iraq is this careless dismissal of it, as quoted by the New York Times: On Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, spokesman for the [...]

Soldiers in Iraq are coming down with a case of Baghdad boils sores caused from the bites of sand flies that can last for months. As if things weren’t bad enough.

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This one has to be read in full for the irony to shine through: Reporters Must Erase Tapes of Scalia Talk:Deputy federal marshal enforces the justice’s ban on recording of his speech at a high school. From Associated Press, printed in the L.A. Times HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their [...]