One major casualty of last month’s fiscal-cliff fracas was that we’ve fallen shamefully behind on our “page 69 test” posts. To recap: Grab a new book. Open it to page 69. If the passage is compelling, that book might just be worth reading. Today’s edition brings us to Alan Blinder’s “After the Music Stopped,” a… Read more »
Posts Tagged: After
Politico’s Framing of Jackson’s Resignation from EPA: ‘After Four Years of Battling Republicans and Industry’
In their December 27 story about Lisa Jackson's resignation from atop her perch at the Environmental Protection Agency, Darren Samuelsohn and Erica Martinson at the Politico wanted readers to believe that occurred after "after four years of battling Republicans and industry while also giving the White House some heartburn along the way over her push… Read more »
NYTimes Blames Jailed Filmmaker for Criticizing Muhammad: ‘After Fueling Deadly Protests, No Regret’
Taking a strange, hostile stand toward free expression, the journalists at the New York Times assumed an amateurish YouTube video sparked deadly riots in the Muslim world, and asked the imprisoned director if he had any regrets for making the movie. Monday's front-page report from Los Angeles came from Serge Kovaleski and Brooks Barnes and… Read more »
Questioner: ‘After’ Debate Obama Explained Delay In Labeling Libya ‘Terror’
ADDED: Via Twitter, Tom Vaughn catches something I missed. Wemple also reported this: [emphasis added] President Obama, though, wasn’t done with Kerry Ladka. “After the debate, the president came over to me and spent about two minutes with me privately,” says the 61-year-old Ladka, who works at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola, N.Y. According to… Read more »