The First Amendment’s freedom to pee
At what point are someone’s political views so detestable that they earn their holder a bathroom ban? And if the ban’s originator and enforcer is an officer of the government —…
Swedish blood libel. Damn bloodthirsty Jews.
Hey, if it’s on the Web … forget that, if it’s in the newspaper … then it’s got to be true, right? Media responsibility? You supply the prose, we’ll supply…
Headless woman
One of my kids asked me the other day why the NY Post — which we have home-delivered, so they see it over breakfast — had used a celebrity photo…
Porn stars mount anti-piracy campaign
“We work hard to entertain you and arouse you. So please, show your support by buying our product.”…
Paper changes its play of a F—ing street sign hack. Print v. online: Standards are still different.
When a protester hacked into a Brooklyn street sign on Tuesday, New York media divided over whether to show the “F” word. The Brooklyn Paper sided with most bloggers and ran…
‘Curse of Joe Biden’ … or editors stuck in their sophomore year
Vice President Biden’s barely audible use of the “F” word was newsworthy, made-for-the-Internet flash. But front page play in four of New York’s five newspapers?!? New York media’s fixation with…
Advice on transporting your illegal-alien nanny
Last week, The Brooklyn Paper stirred a sleeper of an issue by reporting that most child care positions in tony, uber-liberal Park Slope were being filled with off-the-books employees, many…
Big numbers can make the story and put it all in perspective. But too often they’re just bullshit.
Just how bad was the destruction in Haiti? On mega disasters stories, it’s hard to get a grip. An LA Times story puts it in perspective: The amount of debris…
‘Doing no evil’: Maybe Google still means it
Is it possible that Google still means it — that it really means to “do not evil”? As Google faces off with China’s tyrants, the Soviet-era childhood of co-founder Sergey Brin…
Some rebels just don’t know when they’ve been beaten
The Confederates could have saved themselves a lot of blood and treasure if they’d thrown in the towel before Sherman marched through Atlanta. Now, the staff of the daily newspaper in…