Folks are up in arms about Gwen Ifill’s supposedly pro-Obama book coming out on Inauguration Day. There have been calls for her to step down from her position as moderator* of the vice-presidential debate. How incredible that Drudge was able to bring this issue to light just in time one day before the debate! Except. Read More
I think Sarah Palin uses words like “recuse” and “fungible” to hide the fact that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Hilzoy: Sarah Palin has been described as a quick study. But she has been surrounded by briefers for nearly three weeks, and she’s still completely unable to string together an intelligent thought on Read More
The moderators for the presidential debates were announced last week by the Commission on Presidential Debates, and, surprise, surprise, the moderators are three aged white men: Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, and Bob Schieffer. Gwen Ifill, who moderated the VP debate in ’04, has been tapped to moderate it again this year. NPR’s Michel Martin took Read More
Welcome to The Root Roundup! Herein, I will suffer for the art of blogging by reviewing recent essays posted on the internet’s only site produced by the WaPo, just for Negroes. Let the roundup begin.
I got to ask David Simon a question! The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hosted a talk with David Simon, creator of The Wire, which all journalists agree is the best show ever. Despite this past season in the newsroom. I braved rush hour traffic in Connecticut to go. You should know now that Read More
In yet another instance of fraudulent (and/or negligent) journalism, LA Times reporter Chuck Philips and Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin have been forced to recant claims made in an article on March 17 that implicated associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in the 1994 shooting death of Tupac Shakur. Philips claimed the newspaper had obtained FBI Read More
Les Payne, the columnist for Newsday, took serious issue with that fascinating New York magazine piece on the rise and fall of the late New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd, above. Boyd’s head rolled following the Jayson Blair scandal, and his firing knocked him from the post at the Times’ helm that was his Read More
