Michael O. Allen

Tag: Washington Post

  • Souter's Harvard Talk

    Text of Justice David Souter’s Harvard Commencement remarks (as delivered) When I was younger, I used to hear Harvard stories from a member of the class of 1885. Back then, old graduates of the College who could get to Cambridge on Commencement Day didn’t wait for reunion years to come back to the Yard.  They’d…

  • Howell Raines is Neither a ‘Liar’ Nor is He Crazy

    In this Sunday’s Washington Post Op-Ed, he asks questions that have long needed to be asked. Take this one, his first: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent…

  • Check This Out!

    Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen It’s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the “conventions that don’t add to your understanding of…

  • Pride and honor

    What’s the Pig Deal? So says the headline on a Washington Post headline. Funny headline by another group of people who see John McCain as this hero gone wrong. With a phony flap and a misleading attack ad, the McCain campaign sinks into silliness. Thursday, September 11, 2008; A16 IT’S HARD to think of a…

  • A wanderer arrives

    When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…

  • Thumbs on the scale

    FROM MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA During a speech to the Israeli parliament yesterday morning, President Bush attacked Barack Obama, comparing him to Nazi appeasers for the Illinois senator’s willingness to hold discussions with Iran. One problem: Bush’s speech came just hours after The Washington Post reported that Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, said that the…

  • Feat of Clay

    (Photo by Lei Yixin) A clay model of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue that is proposed for the Mall. Related article . . . Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Noonan: 'Damsel of Distress'

    I am sorry to say this but I hate Peggy Noonan. She helped propagate evil policies under the elder Bush. She continues to play a corrosive role in American public life with her column on the Opinion-Editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. But, in today’s paper, she rightly excoriates Hillary Rodham Clinton for her…

  • Scalia and Free Speech

    I was wondering if you might indulge me and consider what Scalia is saying in this post: Both Scalia and his teenage interlocutor seemed aware of some “Road to Damascus” conversion that Scalia had gone through on Free Speech. “I have the capacity to admit I made a mistake,” Scalia started out in answering the…