Report: Karen Santorum’s Ex-Boyfriend Was An Abortion Provider
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's campaign has been marked in no small part by his adherence to a socially conservative platform, one tenet of which has been his denunciation of abortion. And Santorum's wife, Karen Santorum, has been right by his side throughout, helping him to spread his message. But, as Newsweek and the...
A Broken Joe Paterno Gives Sad, Insightful Interview To Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, 85, has been relatively mum since his dismissal -- by phone call -- as head coach of the football team. But after undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, and forced to a wheelchair because of a broken pelvis suffered in December, Paterno decided to open up to...
A Broken Joe Paterno Gives Sad, Insightful Interview To Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, 85, has been relatively mum since his dismissal -- by phone call -- as head coach of the football team. But after undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, and forced to a wheelchair because of a broken pelvis suffered in December, Paterno decided to open up to...
Newt Gingrich Calls For SuperPAC To Correct Errors In Anti-Mitt Romney Bain Film
The SuperPAC-produced film "King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came To Town" is coming under fire for being somewhat inaccurate, receiving cries to be removed from the airwaves and edited for accuracy should it have to return. The twist in this story is that the one calling for the extended documentary ad to be removed...
Washington Post Fact-Checker Upgrades Mitt Romney Jobs Claim To 3 ‘Pinocchios’
Last week, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler did a great job of disproving Mitt Romney's claim that he created 100,000 jobs through Bain Capital, but made the bewildering judgment that the claim merited but a single "Pinocchio."After watching Romney at Saturday's ABC News debate, Kessler came back with a new ruling: the...
The New York Times Public Editor Asks If Paper Should ‘Be a Truth Vigilante’
With an already messy primary season underway, many reporters have been bombarded with statements and messages that accuse other public figures of half-truths and outright lies. Politicians, in particular, are constantly bringing up things the other one said or did in the past, some which hold no truth at all. If you've heard Newt Gingrich...
Report: New Book Alleges Mitt Romney Urged Single Mother To Give Up Her Child For Adoption
As the election heats up, the attacks and/or vetting of each candidate have reached a boiling point. The latest narrative concerns former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, and comes courtesy of a new book -- The Real Romney -- that purports to offer an in-depth look into his past, both as a businessman and as a...
Media Decoder Blog: Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, to Leave The Journal
Douglas A. Blackmon, a senior national correspondent who frequently covered politics at The Wall Street Journal, will be leaving to take an academic post at the University of Virginia and to cover politics for The Washington Post as a contributing edi...
Peggy Noonan Coins Funniest Newt Gingrich Nickname Yet: ‘Angry Little Attack Muffin’
Who would've thought it was going to be Peggy Noonan who would coin the single most hilarious, funny-because-it's-true nickname for what candidate Newt Gingrich has become in the sunset of the complimentary Republican primary surge every candidate (except Jon Huntsman) appears to be entitled to? Noonan's campaign roundup in today's Wall Street Journal...
Media Decoder Blog: Hoberman Is Out at Village Voice, and Curtain Drops on an Era
The laying off of the senior film critic at The Voice has some wondering where the newspaper is headed, and where film criticism is headed.
