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The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights issued a press release yesterday denouncing a “vile column” distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate titled “Death for the Pope.”
The New York Observer this week ran a major cover story on l’affaire Eden, the firing of headline gal and copyeditor Dawn Eden by the New York Post for her pro-life edits of a piece on in-vitro fertilization.
Fascinating report in The Christian Science Monitor from Yemen, where the religion of peace isn’t just another Orwellian slogan. Here’s the first sentence:
There are a lot of layers to this onion, but I will attempt to peel slowly. In the latest issue of The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens proved yet again that he is incapable of judging a major literary figure without first consulting George Orwell. In Hitchens’ assessment of Graham Greene, he quoted Orwell as saying of the central character of Greene’s The Heart of the Matter,
I don’t often read The Scotsman, but you have to love a newspaper that puts the “key points” up front, in bullets. Slim chance of burying the lede with this approach. In this case, the highlights are:
In the comments thread to my last, a reader pointed out this article from The New York Times Book Review. The reviewer, one Kathryn Harrison, looks at Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women’s Quest for Authority.
I was disappointed to see that James Carroll was the Washington Post Book World‘s pick to review John Cornwell’s new quasi-biography of John Paul II. A detailed read of the review did not let me up.
For the last few days, publications from dailies to weeklies to really happening websites have been putting the final touches on news and views packages on the Iraq elections, to be held Sunday (though expatriate voting has already started). And here the issue of news judgment becomes interesting.
