This Time, the Prosecutor's a Corker- October 27, 2005 It's one of the ironies of our media culture that the mystique of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case, grew to mythic size simply by virtue of Fitzgerald keeping his mouth shut until he has something to say.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102602524.html?nav=r... Seeing Right Through The Times's Transparency- October 20, 2005 The age of the blogosphere has produced a new genre of mainstream journalism: fake transparency. The New York Times has become its foremost practitioner. The paper of record has been arraigned for arrogance so many times in the past three years that it has forgotten how useful arrogance can be. The Gulliver of West 43rd Street has gotten so spooked that now it preemptively lies down, affixes bonds to its wrists and ankles, and invites the Lilliputians of cyberspace to walk all over it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101901963.html?nav=r... You've Come a Long Way, Ladies- October 13, 2005 The healthiest aspect of the Harriet Miers nomination is that women haven't rallied to her cause. Ten years ago, there would have been a lot of reflexive solidarity about keeping the Sandra Day O'Connor spot on the Supreme Court from reverting to male type. But every female lawyer I've spoken with in the past week skips right past the sisterly support into a rant about Miers's meager qualifications or her abject obeisance to power. The good news is that for women, it seems, Miers's nomination...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202328.html?nav=r... Lips Bearing a Presidential Seal- October 6, 2005 You would think one of the side effects of the president's slide from Top Gun would be an eruption of disloyal memoirs. Since the outbursts of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and terrorism czar Richard Clarke, there's been a lack of literary lava out of Washington's Mount Vesuvius.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100502251.html?nav=r... |