Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
NY Review Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996 The Deferential Spirit By Joan Didion On the morning of Sunday, June 23, the day the prepublication embargo on Bob Woodward’s The Choice was lifted, The Washington Post, the newspaper for which Mr. Woodward has so famously been, since 1971, first a reporter and now […]
MoreLibby Live: Novak One By: emptywheel NOTES: (1) This is not a transcript — It’s the blogger’s approximation, and no one really knows what that is yet! But I do know you shouldn’t quote anything not in quotation marks. (2) I’ll timestamp the updates and will update about every 15 minutes, servers willing. The hamsters […]
MoreTom Friedman’s Flexible Deadlines Iraq’s ‘decisive’ six months have lasted two and a half years5/16/06 New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman is considered by many of his media colleagues to be one of the wisest observers of international affairs. “You have a global brain, my friend,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews once told Friedman […]
MoreFmr. CIA Chief: “We Probably Gave Powell the Wrong Speech” SilentPatriot In a fascinating interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, Former European CIA Chief Tyler Drumheller recounts what it was like working for the CIA during the run up to the Iraq War and talks — to the extent he can — about how the […]
More(updated below) One of the critical issues which that disgraceful Michael Gordon article in yesterday’s New York Times raises is the extent to which so many national journalists are so eager to prove to right-wing fanatics that they are sympathetic to their agenda. Years of being attacked by the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys and […]
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