RN, Apollo, And Obits

The Smoking Gun is featuring documents that the Nixon White House prepared before the Apollo 11 mission in the event that it ended in tragedy.  Discover mutters that reading the plan “gives us the creepy feeling of reading the obituary of someone who is still...

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...