Posts Tagged ‘the new republic’

Regret the links

In case you hadn’t noticed, I recently added a “What I’m Reading” sidebar to the site. It’s over there to the right. I link to relevant articles that I find interesting or of note. And now, every once in a while, I’ll post a round-up of some of those links to make sure you don’t [...]

Press fooled by fake McCain advisor

A man posing as a McCain campaign advisor managed to convince several media outlets to take him seriously. In the end, he’s a filmmaker looking for publicity. Take it away, New York Times: It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did [...]

TNR retracts Baghdad Diarist stories

After four-and-a-half months of re-reporting, long bouts of silence, and tangling with the US Army and various publications and bloggers, The New Republic today published a lengthy article by editor Franklin Foer that attempts to offer the magazine’s final word on the veracity of columns written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, its Baghdad Diarist. We’ll skip [...]