August 2011
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July 2011
5 posts
"Readers of the The Atlantic, I feel compelled to...
This is from an actual note that an actual journalist for The Atlantic sent to readers of his blog at The Atlantic site. It attempts to explain to those readers why his update to a post (Mumbai comes to Norway) suggesting radical Muslims were behind the killing spree in Norway made it look like he had presented this claim as just one theory among many, when in fact, he had not. You can get the...
"We create our own reality." Not so funny now, is...
Ron Suskind in the New York Times, October 17, 2004
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend...
