The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
‘I Wonder What This Button Does . . .’
“Ohio: Scientists Sound Alarm on Nuclear Plant”–headline, New York Times, Nov. 9
The Experts Not Much of a Copy Editor
“Welcome to ‘From the Inside:’ an Experts [sic] Look at the Newsroom”–headline, Durango (Colo.) Herald website, Nov. 9
Out on a Limb
“Debate Meltdown Does Not Help Rick Perry”–headline, Houston Chronicle website, Nov. 9
Fox Bites Man
Here’s a curious report from Politico, which last week broke the story of unnamed women’s unspecified complaints against Herman Cain:
Cain’s attempt to turn a series of sexual harassment complaints into a purely partisan issue has hit an unexpected roadblock–the Fox News Channel, where reporters and some commentators have pressed him hard for details and even offered a platform to one of his accusers on the most important media stage of the Republican primary.
In other words, Fox, instead of acting as a cheerleader for Cain, is playing the story straight and trying to get at the truth. That Politico would find it newsworthy for a news organization to behave in this manner says more about Politico than about Fox.
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.”
