Of Journalistic Ethics And Illegally Acquired Documents

James Joyner says:

Ed Driscoll, Jonathan Adler and Glenn Reynolds take the New York Times and other mainstream outlets to task for their decision to not republish the stolen emails from climate scientists on the grounds that they were

Here we go again:

Associated Press – November 6, 2009 2:24 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – State investigators are searching the New Orleans offices of the activist group ACORN in connection with embezzlement and tax fraud allegations.

Assistant Attorney

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House

So along comes Jake Tapper, speaking to Bobby “the mouthpiece” Gibbs at a White House Gaggle:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our

We know this  story has been out a while, but can’t resist diving in with some recommendations to help the New York Times get back in touch with being a Newspaper again. After all, they got rather badly burned by

Hey Martin:

…and says to you, “One of my favorite political philosophers is Adolph Hitler.”

You gag back your outrage or you say “are you insane?” Or you just excuse yourself and keep moving.

O.K., suppose someone from the White

Micheal Wade over at Q&O asks an interesting question:  Will Balloon Boy Be The New Schiavo?

I truly hope that I’m wrong. That cooler heads will prevail. That, if indeed the parents set this whole thing up as a publicity

Over in the UK, The Spectator notes;

Here is a little quiz. The Guardian has posted up a list here of everyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception.

Q: Which three names are omitted from

Steve Benen:

WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?…. Yesterday’s White House press briefing was pretty lively, with, as one might imagine, plenty of questions about the Nobel Peace Prize. CBS News’ Chip Reid’s interests stood out, but not in

David suggests in his piece earlier this morning, the Mainstream media will take the biggest damage the Denmark Disaster. Frankly, I tend to agree at least for the initial part. . That would seem to render the disagreement between

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

Surber this morning:

Democrat Nancy Pelosi cried like a little girl that those mean, un-American people on the other side frighten her.

Pelosi sobbed: “This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate

Megan McArdle, Atlantic, moans:

I have a dilemma. The other day, I boldly stated that I could not possibly like Rush Limbaugh less. Then he went and described bullying attacks as what happens in “Obama’s America”. As Rod Dreher

Scott Wang, AzCentral, filed this report:

A man carrying an AR-15 rifle outside the Phoenix Convention Center where President Barack Obama was speaking today has renewed concerns about protesters bringing firearms to presidential events.

“It is extremely disturbing that

To the best of may knowledge Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii in 1964.   That  is only my opinion.    Yet lame reporters, from the Lame Stream Media continue to attempt to report on their personal opinions as if they were