With pennant races heating up for the September stretch, there are dozens of Major League Baseball stories worth telling. But Wall Street Journal baseball writer Jared Diamond chose to amplify outstanding Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson’s musings about baseball’s “need,” as he sees it, for more platinum chains, attention-getting hairstyles and man-child clowning as seen in the NBA and NFL. Anderson says baseball and its staid traditions of comportment are “corny” and not “cool” enough to attract younger fans. Read more…
Post, Academics & News Directors Bemoan Attacks on TV Crews, Blame Trump
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi quoted television news industry and academic sources assessing a reported rise in violence against camera crews and reporters. Not surprisingly, none of Farhi’s sources considered as a possible motivation for such violence the utterly lopsided, largely divorced-from-reality presentations of the news that most TV newsrooms force on their viewers night after night. Nor did his sources acknowledge the role all woke media have played in castrating police and otherwise fomenting lawlessness on streets across the country. They’d rather blame Trump. Read more…
Fact-Checking the ‘Fact-Checker’ on Weed
Eager to keep Virginia blue, Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Glenn Kessler was too quick to heap Pinocchios on GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin for suggesting that, in states that have legalized recreational marijuana use, related tax-revenue projections often fell short of reality. Kessler cites weed revenues that eventually climbed higher, but he willfully ignores related state spending that also climbs as freer drug use helps drive traffic accidents, homelessness and youth suicides, among other costly problems. Read more…
The Infantalized Millennials & ‘Journalists’ Who Would Change America
In an age when everyone with a cellphone can be a “filmmaker,” the Wall Street Journal’s front page today nonetheless reports there are many dog-walkers and retail clerks who’d gullibly gone hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt for largely worthless master’s degrees in filmmaking. And speaking of gullible, the Journal also reports that the greaseball grifter who had progressive media fawning all over him for nearly two years is headed to prison for extortion. Yet these would-be Billy Wilder millennials and middle-aged hipsters at NPR and CNN think they should lead a radical “reimagining” of our 245-year-old nation. Read more…
LeBron & Friends Silence the Truth
As the angry, humorless and vindictive left continues to signal its virtue by severely judging others and attacking enemies’ reputations and livelihoods, friends and associates of LeBron James — NBA superstar, billionaire, critic of America and staunch ally of blood-soaked totalitarian China — have shown a propensity to act like attack dogs for the King. Read more…
Where’s Antoni’s Dad?
Perhaps Washington Post editors believe that frequent front-page stories about the various woes of poor and mostly unwed mothers will inspire taxpayers to rise up and demand the government take ALL of their money so a Super Nanny State can better substitute for husbands and fathers. But in our post-Roe v. Wade age of choice, when women and girls needn’t bear children they can’t afford to raise, such stories — with no criticism of the self-dooming decisions at their root – may be having the opposite effect. Read more…
The ‘Biden’ Agenda? Please.
Like most in our leftist media, Washington Post congressional reporter Mike DeBonis dutifully if rather charitably refers to the “Biden agenda” in his front-page story today, even though it’s likely been a couple of years since our twilighting president has independently formulated an agenda for himself much less the nation. In any case, unlike our forgetful president, Post-deconstruction hasn’t forgotten DeBonis’s incendiary story back in March, (dutifully) quoting a bomb-throwing-but-since-gone-silent congressional staffer accusing the U.S. Capitol Police of anti-Semitism. So our latest note to the reporter also asks for an update on that. Read more…
Imagine the News Coverage If White Kooks with Guns Shut Down an Interstate
But they were black and brown kooks with guns in an hours-long standoff with police, and Washington Post readers had to slog to paragraph 16 to get any real hint of their race. White criminals are routinely identified by race in newspaper headlines and early paragraphs, whereas the race of black and brown criminals is generally buried if reported at all. Read more…
A Simplified Tax Code Likely to Produce More Revenue than Bulked Up IRS Enforcement
The Wall Street Journal published a letter by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in support of the Biden administration’s desire to put the IRS on steroids so it can perform many more tax audits than it does now and, at least in theory, close the “tax gap” by collecting more from no-good, conniving rich people. But Mr. Summers, now safely sequestered in an Ivory Tower at Harvard, has seemingly forgotten all about past and present IRS abuses of power and the resulting “trust gap.” Read more…
‘Requiem for a Heavyweight’
Serena Williams’ latest injury and withdrawal from Wimbledon again underscores an obvious truth that most sportswriters nonetheless remain unwilling to speak out loud. Likely fearing the woke backlash that seemingly follows any criticism of an activist athlete of color these days, no one dares to suggest that the nearly 40-year-old and decreasingly fit tennis great should retire lest she risk more serious injuries and an embarrassing end to an otherwise historic career. Read more…