Oklahoma tornado coverage top notch
Violent tornadoes ripped through much of the Midwest and Southern Plains during the last few days. People died, not just……
Category: Media
History or His story?
Politicians’ sex scandals are rearing their hoary heads in the press once again. There’s the Strauss-Kahn front-page news of a……
Radio helps in Joplin
An ever-increasing number of the public, media professionals and journalism educators seem to think that the new/electronic media are the……
Should columnists air readers' complaints?
Jim Romenesko has blogged (May 24) that Ronnie Polaneczky, a Philadelphia columnist, has been posting online comments from readers remarking……
Alito talks media with lawyers in St. Louis
Justice Samuel Alito didn’t direct his remarks at the press when he spoke to a ballroom full of lawyers in St. Louis. But it was clearly the press he had in mind when he described the misconceptions that people have about the Supreme Court.
Alito even singled out for criticism the star Supreme Court reporter of the past generation, Linda Greenhouse, who writes a column about the court in her retirement from the New York Times. He noted that Greenhouse had wondered in her column about “topsy-turvy world” Supreme Court where business had not won as high a percentage of cases this term as in the past.
“Maybe the law has something to do with it,” said Alito with some sarcasm. “Maybe the text has something to do with it. I know that is a radical thought.”