Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Journalism Ethics MIA

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Yet again, Glenn Greenwald not only anticipates what I was going to say, he does it better: GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com deconstructs today's NYT article reporting that GE & Murdoch News got together and agreed to clamp down on blowhards O'Reilly and Olbermann.

It's especially amazing that nowhere in Brian Stelter's article reporting that a pair of owner/publishers of news/opinion TV shows agreed secretly to muzzle them is there any hint that there might be an journalism ethics issue. No one from a J-school is quoted.

Who muzzled the New York Times? And is the most depressing answer that it muzzled itself.

(Bonus amazement: Charlie Rose either lied about the events he witnessed or didn't understand their significance any more than did Brian Stelter.)

Posted in The Media | 3 Comments

Congratulations to FAMU Law

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Florida A&M University (FAMU) law has received full ABA accreditation — a notable turnaround after a rocky patch.

Posted in Florida | 2 Comments

Sorry About the PopUp

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

For reasons unknown, iraqbodycount.org has started serving a popup instead of its civilian casualty count, so I've disabled that part of the sidebar at least temporarily.

In general there's a fair amount of cruft in the sidebars — should I go on a sidebar diet to speed load time and looks?

UPDATE (8/1): Looks fixed?

Posted in Discourse.net | 2 Comments

The August Air War Begins Early

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Progressive groups target health care denier Ben Nelson (DINO-Neb.) in HealthCareCantWait.com.

Apparently they have a significant ad buy scheduled in Nebraska and are raising funds for more.

Posted in Health Care | 2 Comments

Snarkfest!

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Brad has outdone himself in Someone Is Saying Something Wrong on the Internet in the White House Briefing Room!.

It begins:

Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal raises his hand in the White House Briefing Room and asks a question:

(1) Is there a point where you really are endangering the planet, where the focus on sub-lunar issues has ben excessive and there's just no way you can properly guard against the threat of the ravening Hexans from North Polar Jupiter

My mistake. He actually said:

(2) Is there a point where you really are soaking the rich, where the carrying capacity of this small group of people has been exceeded and there's just no way you can keep lumping all of the problems of the finances of the United States on 1 percent of those households?

But the truth value of the two statements is the same.

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Fix the ToolTips Behind Taskbar Problem

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

A nifty utility fixes the Tooltips-Behind-Taskbar problem. See Fix Windows Tooltips Showing Behind Taskbar for details.

Amazingly, it seems Microsoft has known about this problem since Win 95, and it persists not just in XP but also Vista.

Is it fixed in Windows 7, aka 'the best Vista Service Pack ever'?

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