“…did you know it costs $84k a year to go to Columbia Journalism School?”

Boston Globe columnist fights with The Onion over whether Boston’s a world class city

Mischief is important: Nominate Brian Lilley`s CBC Exposed for the CBC Book Awards.

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Jillian Rayfield of Salon.com “set out to create a false narrative about Breitbart News Network’s “The Uninvited” CPAC event, complete with accusations of “Islamaphobia,” before the panelists spoke a single word”
Related: CPAC Stories the Mainstream Media Blew and/or Missed
h/t TimR

h/t Mike from Montreal

Rathergate II?

The WaPo story had a giant pile of journalistic flaws. They had the wrong hooker: the person they talked to had never talked to the Caller. Worse, the paper stealth-corrected that mistake without acknowledging error. Even worse, the paper had claimed to contact Tucker Carlson before publication, but he says they lied.
All bad enough! But the potentially Rathergate-ish aspect of the story emerged when a Twitter user said he had found the curious affidavit that the paper had apparently used as a linchpin of their story.

WaPo Continues to Devour Its Own

MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz;

“Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s [snip] near a third….You can’t take 30, you can’t take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can’t do it! It’s impossible!”

h/t EBD

h/t BCF

Why, it’s the asteroid Schadenfreude!

(h/t Phil)

What would we do without “reports”? 70% of children will be overweight adults by 2040: Ontario report

“Walter Cronkite’s on-air report from Vietnam — which the president did not see — supposedly elicited his famous lament: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ Shortly thereafter, Johnson would make his most memorable television appearance, announcing that he would not run for president in 1968.”

“What was the process for getting dressed?”