Author: Amy Ridenour

Washington Post/Dana Priest Story: An Appeal for Disclosure — and Consistency

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I have difficulty respecting the choice of news organizations to run stories that are based on mysteries when the news organization knows the answer but choses not to inform the reader -- and glosses over their unwillingness to disclose. In ...
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More Union Nonsense

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The Allegheny Institute Blog writes about municipal bus drivers who have gone to court arguing they shouldn't be forced to pick up passengers. The bus drivers are the fourth-highest paid in the U.S. (for urban areas of 500,000 to 2 ...
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Global Warming and Polar Bears: One Sound Decision Deserves Another

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Peyton Knight sent this over: At a United Nations meeting in Paris last week, the Bush Administration told the U.N. World Heritage Committee that it should not add new sites to its list of endangered places based on the theory ...
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Cliff Kincaid: Give Back the Tainted Pulitzers

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Cliff Kincaid has posted an interesting column about what he calls the "tainted Pulitzers" of Dana Priest (Washington Post) and James Risen/Eric Lichtblau (New York Times). An excerpt: ...during an on-line discussion of her article, Priest was asked specifically about ...
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Canadians Discuss Canadian Health Care

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For a consumer's-eye-view of the Canadian health care system, which some urge Americans to adopt, check out the comments on the Small Dead Animals blog post I mentioned earlier. The commenters, who appear to be Canadians, are discussing their country's ...
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Anonymous Source Watch II

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Note to White House: When paragraphs like this are appearing in the New York Times and elsewhere... A senior White House official denied that Mr. Bolten was considering such a step. "It's not the case," said the official, who was ...
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Rep. Alan Mollohan to Step Down From Ethics Post

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So says Roll Call. I blogged about this situation earlier here; the National Legal and Policy Center is the go-to spot on the Mollohan investigation; West Virginia MSM journalist and blogger Don Surber also has kept up-to-speed. This is the ...
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Violating a Confidential Source

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A new book about former FBI Agent Mark Felt, the alleged "Deep Throat" of "All the President's Men" (Watergate) fame, says Felt believes journalist Bob Woodward violated an agreement not to describe him in print. A Washington Post story by ...
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Carl Bernstein Reports: Drudge Report’s Comment Section Favors Senate Investigation of Bush

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Does the Drudge Report have a comments section? I ask because I've never noticed one, yet on "Washington Post Radio" this morning I heard journalist Carl Bernstein describe the comments on the "right wing" Drudge Report as favoring the creation ...
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Universal Health Care Says: Tattoo Removal, Yes; Life-Saving Cancer Drugs, No

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I've written (see here, here and here for recent examples) often on the problems with so-called "universal care" medical systems. Now National Center board member and Heritage Foundation health analyst Ed Haislmaier writes to point out an especially ludicrious example ...
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