The Washington Post, Disgraced

There are some alternate titles that came to mind as I prepared to write this, but since some of TNN’s readers are employees of the Washington Post – some of very long standing indeed – I thought it best to go with the least abrasive one that I...

Newsweek: Dummies and Dummier

The new Newsweek’s summer reading issue includes a feature called “Best.  Books.  Ever,” in which well-known individuals recommend four of their favorite books in their particular areas of interest.    Thus, Melissa Gilbert selects Hollywood memoirs,...

Journalism 101 With Bob Woodward

Youtube is setting up a kind of journalism school of the internet, featuring clips in which various eminences of the Fourth Estate attempt to explain their profession in the space of five or six minutes. The project is being undertaken with the cooperation of many of...

Where Was Hitchens In The Early Seventies?

Christopher Hitchens takes a look at the latest release of Nixon recordings at Slate. For the most part, his remarks about President Nixon, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Rev. Billy Graham are precisely what one would expect him to say – especially when he presents...

Superior

No  one ever accused RN of perfection.  Throughout his career, reporters and cartoonists dwelt on his mistakes, his quirks, even his physical flaws: recall Garry Wills’s long, bizarre description of his face in Nixon Agonistes. As Eamon Javers wryly notes in...

Liddy, Hunt, And The Power Of Song

What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...