Gawker’s John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them online, writing that, “The documents are exceedingly complicated. We don’t pretend to be qualified to decode them in full, which is why we are posting them here for readers to help evaluate—please leave your thoughts
Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War
The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad | By Dennis Drabelle | St. Martin’s Press | 293 pages, $26.99 Though many of today’s American writers are politically aware and active, their modes of engagement tend to be indirect, their campaigns waged through personal essays,
Fake military news site gains traction
When a former marine started writing Onion-style stories on the satirical military news site he launched in March, he had little inkling how quickly they would spread. Five months since he started The Duffel Blog, 28-year-old Sgt. Paul Szoldra, who was honorably discharged from the the marines in 2010, has duped multiple outlets with his
Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin
As transitions go, it was pretty jagged, a classic of the “moving right along” category. Answering a question about abortion in the case of rape, Todd Akin, the 65-year Missouri congressman and current candidate for the US Senate, says: First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it is a
CBS goofs up the green beat
Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor, allowing him to interview a fire ecologist from The Nature Conservancy without mentioning that the contributor is the lead scientist at the very same group. When CBS gave M. Sanjayan the job in May, a
