In a recent issue, High Country News (or HCN, a regional fortnightly newspaper published in Paonia, Colorado) Editor in Chief…
Last Monday I reported that Monsignor Walter Rossi, the rector of D.C.’s Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,…
At the beginning of the Trump presidency, a few cautious editors, such as the Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker, questioned…
Washington I spent my first 30-plus years in the newspaper business as an editorial writer and later a columnist. Like…
Over the weekend, Salon published a list of “The 25 conservatives actually worth following on Twitter,” which turned out to…
On the occasion of my 50th anniversary of founding and editing The American Spectator, I feel moved to reflect on the parlous condition of the magazine business. We celebrated our anniversary just last night, and naturally I composed my reflections before the event. What makes this column something more than an occasion for indulgence is that the sickly condition of magazines is, of a sudden, a hot news item.
“She spent evenings with the art books Yankel had bought for her in Lutsk, and each morning sulked over breakfast….
A writer friend and I were email rapping on the current state of journalism, and the general worthlessness of j-school…
“Follow the money” is lousy advice for a journalist. The catchphrase, which is spoken by Hal Holbrook’s Deep Throat in…
Disgraced lefty Journalist Juan Thompson, a Muslim convert, and serial fabulator fired from The Intercept, called in bomb threats to…
