Risk Avoidance
Call it “Spook’s Razor:” Opportunities for timely blogging decrease in proportion to the demands of one’s “real job,” and that decline usually coincides with significant, even earth-shattering events. Put another…
Dickey's Folly?
It may go down as one of the worst media decisions since Wall Street rejected David Sarnoff’s appeal for investing in radio back in the 1920s. As one of the…
Whereabouts Unknown
Remember the closing sequence of Animal House? Just before the final credits rolled, we learned that Hoover became a public defender in Baltimore; Otter established an OB-GYN practice in Beverly…
Your Federal Betters
It’s been quite a month for Lois Lerner. In the span of just a few weeks, she’s gone from being a faceless–but powerful–federal bureaucrat, to the eye of a political…
Mr. Snowden's "Helpers"
Today’s reading assignment, from Edward Jay Epstein, writing in The Wall Street Journal. He expounds on points we made in a previous post, examining the “assistance” given to Edward Snowden…
The Price of Admission
The Edward Snowden affair grows curiouser and curiouser by the day, as Alice might say. As of this writing, the man who exposed the crown jewels of NSA’s intelligence-gathering activities…
The Man Who Almost Lost the War
Major General Daniel Sickles. The most famous–some would say notorious–political general of the Civil War, Sickles’s actions on the battlefield contributed to the stunning Union defeat at Chancellorsville, and he…
The Grounding
While the world media has been focused on yesterday’s crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport, the following aviation-related announcement caught our eye; from…
Where in the World is Colonel Bristol?
***UPDATE*** 7/19/2013. In a sudden about-face, the Pentagon has agreed to let Colonel Bristol speak with Congress about last year’s attack on our consulate in Benghazi. DoD relented after Republican…
A Few More Amateurs, Please
One of the arguments against citizen-journalists is that we lack the “training” and “experience” to get the story right. After yesterday’s little snafu at KTVU in Oakland, it looks like…
A Hero Among Heroes
Colonel George “Bud” Day, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor as a POW in North Vietnam, died yesterday at his home in Shalimar, Florida at the…
From (Beneath) the Sea
Earlier this month, Israel destroyed a shipment of advanced anti-ship missiles in the Syrian port of Latakia. The missiles, which had just been received from Russia, posed a serious threat…
Undisciplined
Dave Micelli is a veteran teacher in the Baltimore city school system. Recently, he submitted a letter to the Baltimore Sun, ridiculing the paper’s editorial on the need for “better…
Why Rush Will Survive–and Prosper
The media world is atwitter (once again) over speculation that Cumulus Radio won’t renew its contracts with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity when they expire at the end of this…
Dispatches from the Tar Pits
If you need proof that the dinosaur media establishment is in its death throes, look no further than the recent sales of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. The…