Posts tagged “TPM”
Commendable Journalistic Bravery And Courage
Elana Schor at TPMDC produced a post yesterday titled “Wall Street Traders Send Frustrated, Typo-Riddled Letter to Congress“. She takes the Security Traders Association of New York (STANY) to task for the thorough unprofessionalism evident in their multiple typos: The letter contains at least 10 grammatical errors, according to my informal count — including the [...]
Is Our Bloggers Learning?
Not Josh Marshall of TPM, certainly. On February 17, I blogged about how he had four typos in four consecutive posts. Well, today he managed four typos in two consecutive paragraphs of the same post. (There’s also one in the preceding paragraph, actually, but I decided to leave it out rather than include that long [...]
Glass Houses, Stone-throwing And TPM
Anyone who has followed my posts about the merry antics of TPM‘s headline writer (see this, this, this and this) will find this post by Josh Marshall genuinely amusing: Every day now I see a new article quoting this or that bank CEO saying it was a mistake to take government aid and that they’ve [...]
Chuck Schumer Lionized For Ox-crap
Close friends who I dearly love regard Chuck Schumer as one of the sleaziest Democrats in the Senate. So I tend to regard everything he says and does with a certain amount of healthy skepticism. Take, for instance, his argument that Republican governors who are unconscionably indifferent to the plight of some of their constituents [...]
Much Ado About What Exactly?
Murray Waas has a very long post in TPM (2610 words) titled “The Big Stone Wall: Nine Bush-Era Officials Refused To Cooperate With DOJ Probes“. TPM is promoting this at the top of their home page as an “exclusive”. I waded doggedly through the first ten paragraphs or so, without finding anything that struck me [...]
TPM’s Typo King
Does TPM need to increase the budget for copy-editing Josh Marshall‘s copy? On Monday afternoon, he had a typo in each of 4 consecutive posts (there are intervening posts by others). They’re trying to decide which if any alternative bust they should send with PM Gordon Brown when comes to DC in early March. (when [...]
TPM’s Serial Exaggerator: Still Alive And Well
That irrepressible serial exaggerator, TPM‘s headline writer, is at it again. Here’s the blurb he produced for a TPM Muckraker post by Zachary Roth: Late last year after Merrill’s buyout by Bank of America was assured, Merrill traders reportedly resumed gambling on mortgage assets — racking up huge losses that led to the multi-billion bailout [...]
TPM Headline Writer Strikes Again
Today, at her farewell press briefing, Dana Perino said People always ask me, what is one myth you wish you could clear up about the President? I think it’s that he doesn’t appreciate the role of the press. Well, I am here to tell you that he really does. As he said in his press [...]
TPM Distortionism: Alive And Well
Nine days ago, I wrote about the guy who’s responsible for the headlines in the right column of TPM‘s main page, and how alarmingly misleading some of those headlines can be. My conjecture was that the headline writer doesn’t actually read the stories that he’s producing headlines for. Here’s more evidence consistent with that conjecture. [...]
TPM Working Hard To Undermine Its Own Credibility
I’m used to sloppy writing on TPM, and lots of typos, but whoever is responsible for the headlines in the right column of TPM‘s home page has really outdone himself today. The headline Even More Uncounted Ballots In Minnesota? links to a TPM Election Central post about the rejected absentee ballots that have been known [...]