CT Blue

In today’s Times, an article on the new French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, begins with an extended, and ultimately baffling metaphor, in which the reporter riffs on the fact that Sarkozy rode a horse. As near as I can figure, the point is that while Sarkozy rode a horse-indeed, a white horse- he is not the […]

Proof, if any were needed, that there is still a need for the Fourth Estate, despite the rise of the bloggers. Yesterday I made reference to a blog post at a site called Joe Courtney Watch that attacked Joe Courtney for being a “Friend of Potheads”. The gravamen (that’s a legal term, you can look […]

I just finished watching Bill Moyer’s Journal, in which he chronicles the media’s failure to do its job (with some honorable exceptions) during the run up to war. What I found interesting was the excuses so many of them made: that the information wasn’t out there, or if it was, that the political momentum toward […]