BY GEORGE SALAMON / “Anthony has made some terrible mistakes,” a grim-faced Huma Abedin said at a press conference about her husband’s (Anthony Weiner’s) sexting adventures that may wreck the former congressman’s run for mayor of New York. Weiner also described his Internet forays with young women as the underwear-clad “Carlos Danger” as “mistakes.”
BY TRIPP FROHLICHSTEIN / In St. Louis, FOX 2’s (KTVI) Elliott Davis did a serious disservice to the public on a “You Paid For It” segment that aired July 16. Why? Because he conducted the interview he used on that segment for a story about St. Louis Community College that originally aired back on Nov. 12. That story focused on the $42,000 the college spent on Chancellor’s Day, a required day for faculty to attend for professional development.
COMPILED FOR GJR / The supposed “irony” of whistleblower Edward Snowden seeking asylum in countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela has become a media meme. Numerous articles, op-eds, reports and editorials in outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR and MSNBC have hammered on this idea since the news first broke that Snowden was seeking asylum in Ecuador. It was a predictable retread of the same meme last year, when Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and the Ecuadorian government deliberated his asylum request for months. Of course, any such “ironies” would be irrelevant even if they were based on factual considerations.
BY GEORGE SALAMON / On July 16, after the Zimmerman trial had concluded with a “not guilty” verdict and a small army of experts and selected citizens were wrangling over the implications on television, you could have found these two statements in the media: “We’ve Had Our Conversation on Race. Now We Need One on Guns,” Alec Macgillis proclaimed in the New Republic. In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Ekon N. Yankah, a professor of law at the Cordoza School of Law in New York, complained that “we are tired of hearing that race is a conversation for another day.” I have to agree with the professor.
