No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

Drudge and Slate both misrepresent Clark

The Columbia School of Journalism has a new web site called The Campaign Desk. Essentially they have decided to referee the journalism during the 2004 Presidential Election season.

It's about time!

They started out with a description of how today (Jan 15, 2004) Matt Drudge completely misrepresented the testimony of General Clark regarding the war in Iraq.

Then they go on to characterize the comments by Chris Suellentrop in Slate on January 14, 2004 as "it is Suellentrop's headlines that seem written "imprecisely off the cuff," not Clark's statements. " They are really being remarkably polite to Chris.

This web site will get a real workout this year considering that the Bush administration operates either in secrecy or by misrepresenting themselves and their opponents, and that most of the so-called "objective" Press is simply too damned lazy to do any real reporting or even decent fact-checking before quoting (negative) common wisdom as fact. That's besides the right-wing Press such as the Washington Times, FOX News, the New York Post, or the Weekly Standard who do nothing except regurgitate right-wing lies for public consumption.
posted by Richard at 9:45 PM