In Saturday Night Live‘s parody of Citizen Kane, on a slow news day Charles Foster Kane says, “if there’s not any news, we’ll make some,” and begins randomly shooting people out the newspaper office window. That’s the first thing I thought of after reading reports that two plainclothes California Highway …
More than a decade ago, neoconservative bloggers coined the term “Fisking” for the polemical device (originally demonstrated against left-leaning journalist Robert Fisk) of taking apart a commentary, sentence by sentence, analytically ripping each part to shreds.
Robert Reich (“Syria and the Reality at Home in America,” Nation of Change, Sept. 7), noting that the share of the population either working or seeking work was at a 30-year low, writes “A decent society would put people to work — even if this required more government spending on …
