Lots of stuff going on today, but I don’t feel like blogging. I’m going offline to read a book or something. I invite you to comment about whatever you want. Is there something you want others to know? An interesting post or article you want people to see? Maybe you want to sound off on an issue I haven’t blogged about this week. Now’s your chance. The thread is open.
Suggestions:
- Last night’s “CSI” season finale — Good acting. I felt so sorry for Nick. George Eads will be nominated for an Emmy, I predict.
- Will Linda Foley get away with accusing “the military” of assassinating journalists?
- The Pepsi controversy?
- Absolutely SICK!
- Have you seen “Revenge of the Sith,” and if so, what did you think? I heard it stinks. Read Donald Sensing’s review.
- Oliver Willis lists LBC among the right wing blogs (but doesn’t link) that aren’t buzzing about remarks made by Rick Santorum. Honestly, the first time I heard about the controversy was this morning. But why include me? Interesting. Captain Ed obliges.
[Note: Oh, brother! Listen to this. Indra Nooyi, president of PepsiCo, spoke to Columbia U's Business School graduates (PDF copy of her speech), and leftist that she is, implied that the United States was giving the world the finger! This is her lame, revisionist, damage-control explanation:
"As part of this illustration, I assigned five of the world’s continents to the different fingers and thumb. I refer to North America and particularly the U.S. as the middle finger because it is the longest and anchors every function the hand performs. The middle finger also is key to all the fingers working together effectively. That is how I view America’s place of importance in the world."
Do you believe that's what she meant???]
Update: I suddenly feel like blogging. Check this out:
When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by The Washington Post.When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey’s nasty sexual encounter with the president in the Oval Office, backed up with eyewitness and documentary evidence, Newsweek decided not to run it. Again, Matt Drudge got the story….So apparently it’s possible for Michael Isikoff to have a story that actually is true, but for his editors not to run it.
Why no pause for reflection when Isikoff had a story about American interrogators at Guantanamo flushing the Quran down the toilet? Why not sit on this story for, say, even half as long as NBC News sat on Lisa Meyers’ highly credible account of Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick?
Good questions, all. This is what I was talking about when I said Newsweek didn’t have to report the Koran story and that reporters make such decisions all the time. They can be discerning when they want to be.
Update II: Blogging is steering Jeff Jarvis’s professional life in a new direction. It’s an amazing new medium, one that’s changed my career path, too.
LA SHAWN BARBER came up as the #1 search for Linda Foley on Google
….though it probably won’t be the case by tomorrow morning.
