Politakid discovered a few days ago that Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg, who was brutally murdered by the al Qaeda in Iraq in 2004, is going to run for Congress in Delaware next year with Ralph Nader’s Green Party. And the bad news is that he’…

Here is an interesting sociological document: Israel National Radio’s Eli Stutz & Yishai Fleisher interviewing Labor MK Colette Avital. It is interesting because it demonstrates the total disengagement from reality and the inability to carry on a rat…

As our regular readers will recall, this blog was named as a result of the original Rathergate Report which chalked the errors at CBS up to “myopic zeal” rather than ill intention or some form of malice. They didn’t know that the …

If you enjoyed the fake memo of Rathergate fame, just wait ’til you see Mary Mapes’ new book! It seems to be about equally reliable. Since Ms. Mapes is currently making the television rounds with a straight face, a refresher

One has to wonder how many people there are like Mapes still working for networks like CBS.

Good journalism means that you verify, thoroughly verify, all of your sources. Otherwise, any wacko can go into a Kinkos, or sit at his or her own PC, and gin up phony documents to “prove” anything that may tickle his or her fancy.

In Mapes’ world, anyone can make up anything about anyone and it’s true unless you can prove it’s not. Mapes hopes to stay in journalism. “It’s what I’m good at,” she said. What a hoot.

Mary Mapes, the CBS producer that was in collusion with Dan Rather on the 60 minutes II MemoGate story has written a book about her adventures with Dan Dan The News Man and Wild Eyed Bill Burkett. No reason to read the book unless you like modern day …