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One would like to think that local media, including local independent newspapers, would be immune from the disease of beltway centrism, but at least in the case of the New London Day, that’s clearly not the case. Today’s Day channels the Washington Post. A basic requirement for beltway punditry is that one must operate in […]

Joe Courtney’s Diary

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney’s highlighting an inaccuracy in Steven Spielberg’s hit movie, “Lincoln,” is generating Washington buzz and Hollywood blowback, drawing the mild-mannered Connecticut congressman into the world of Oscar intrigue. With the start of final Oscar voting Friday, an amused Courtney is being asked if his fact-checking was intended to defend a slighted predecessor, […]

Apples meet oranges

I’m a fan of TPM, but an article like this cannot pass without criticism: Trust in Fox News has fallen to a new low in the four-year history of Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling’s survey of TV news. The latest survey, released Wednesday, found that 41 percent of respondents trust the network, while 46 percent do […]

Wow

As David Atkins, at Hullabaloo says, the Onion couldn’t top this, which actually appears in the Wall Street Journal: Poor, sad rich people. My heart aches for them.  Really, no additional comment needed, but speaking of the Onion, I read recently, can’t remember year, that this will be a year in which it will often […]

The Omnipresent Fox

My wife and I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts in Mystic on Saturday to kill some time while we waited for the train to Boston. The ubiquitous large screen television, a fixture nowadays even in some restaurants, was tuned in to the equally ubiquitous Fox News, which appears to be the station of choice for […]

Putting lipstick on a pig

It is a curious fact that it is often the case that the headlines or article titles in the New London Day are skewed rightward, even when the content is not. I believe it’s the case that the articles are titled locally, even when they come from other sources. The latest, and one of the […]

What would Abe do?

Yeesh, I’m embarrassed on behalf of Joe Klein. Not that I have much good to say about the guy, but well…it’s like when I was quite young and I used to squirm while watching Lucille Ball get herself involved in a really stupid situation on I Love Lucy. Even though I knew it was all […]

An Open Letter to the New London Day

It’s alright. You can stop trying now. For years and years you’ve been trying to placate the crazy folks on the right, but nothing seems to work. Years ago you actually handed over editorial page space to a slew of local right wingers (non-insane need not have applied) in order to prove that you really […]

Pundits and hypocrites

David Atkins, at Hullabaloo makes the legitimate point that the punditocracy has insisted on treating expressed concerns about the deficit as real, when recent and current history establishes quite definitively that the deficit scolds (Krugman’s spot on term) are really only interested in slashing benefits for everyone who isn’t them. But I take issue, sort […]

Who would have thought?

The New London Day’s headline today: Petraeus Hoped affair would stay secret What would we do without the press to tell us these things?