Category: Journalism

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I saw the following post from Stephen Green on Instapundit, a Conservative/Libertarian Blog. A man asking why do women who write disparaging headlines about conservatives “always” look like this (see woman in circle). When you are reduced to commenting about somebody’s looks, it says an awful lot about your argument. You don’t have one. Scott Adams did make racist’s comments and lost most of the distribution for his highly successful cartoon. Disgraced seems like the appropriate word here. But then Green wasn’t saying there was anything wrong with the headline he was going after the woman’s looks.

Or was he? Green is just coy enough in his words to be able to shrug his shoulders and say you were the one assuming I was making a negative comment about the woman’s looks. I didn’t say there was anything wrong with the woman’s looks. I was just saying why do they always look like this and posting her picture for you to see. What an asshole.

I would prefer to link directly to the post but Instapundit doesn’t give me the ability to this. You will find this on the Instapundit blog for January 13 posts made after 2:40PM.

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Christiane Amanpour says she prepares for a trip to the United States now like she is preparing for a trip to North Korea.

I believe that her preparations may be different with Trump and his cronies in charge but North Korea — a country so backward that there are no lights on at night and where there is no political opposition whatsoever seems a bit of a stretch. More importantly it obviously isn’t the least bit true. The lights are very much on in the USA and the opposition to Trump is both active and vigorous. The mere fact that she is saying this while in the United States undermines her own statement.

She has a point. Unfortunately it got lost in the hyperbolic nature of her statement. This is especially damaging for someone who is a journalist. Maybe a comedian could get away with the North Korean comparison but someone who conveys important information to the public it calls into question their judgment. And, to be clear, she wasn’t joking so can I trust what this journalist is saying?

Now I think I can because of her long record of accurate reporting but what about red America? People who are already deeply suspicious of journalists. They might think if she believes that traveling to the USA is akin to North Korea, she is clearly someone who has lost her senses or, at least, her ability to reason.

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I can’t tell you how disappointed I was to see only 7 stories about the Met Gala on the Huffington Post.

Only seven! For the Met Fucking Gala! You can tell I am riled because I rarely use exclamation points and I have used two in one paragraph.

It is an insult too difficult to bear. I can only hope that the editorial team at the Huffington Post will seriously assess their headline reporting a bit more seriously and make better decisions.

Poor Anna Wintour! She must be gutted. My heart bleeds for her!