Posted on 12/06/2002 1:31:06 PM PST by Davis
I have subscribed to the New York Sun since that broadsheet newspaper began publishing in April. It's almost eight months old now, and I'm pleased to report that it's very good, excellent, actually. I've awarded it a gold bingo.
The Sun is lively, direct, smart; covers NY City affairs diligently and expertly. Now, with the Christmas sales season it is picking up some advertising and has increased from 12 pages to 14 and 16 to accommodate advertising and still maintain good coverage. The newsstand price has been reduced from 50 cents to 25 cents. Improved product, reduced price-way to go.
I am charmed by the tag that follows the byline on most pieces, thus, for instance, "by Benjamin Smith, Staff Reporter of the New York Sun." I note that when Seth Lipsky, the Sun's Editor and Publisher wrote a news piece celebrating Robert Bartley's 30 years at he head of the Wall Street Journal; he claimed the honor of "Staff Reporter of the New York Sun." There's a certain Jeffersonian modesty/pride about this that appeals to me.
Oh, yes, the New Sun reports honestly. It's slant, conservative, is observable in its editorial and opinion columns.
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Every weekday, James Taranto produces "Best of the Web" in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal. It's free. I subscribe to it so it is sent to me by e-mail. Mr. Taranto and his Wall Street Journal associates and blogger-informants search the Web for items of interest which he links to their sources, introduces and weaves brilliantly into an informative, elegant, and amusing essay. Here's a typically delightful paragraph from Wednesday's Best of the Web.
"Top of the New--The New York Times' Craig S. Smith "reports" that "about 85 percent of Saudi women are wearing the wrong size bras." His source for this information? Someone with an obvious conflict of interest: a Saudi underwear saleswoman. Smith apparently made no effort to investigate the matter for himself and uncover the facts. This is what passes for journalism these days?"
Taranto and friends, you have earned a gold bingo.
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I'd never read anything by her before. I was struck by the passion and power of an essay carried by frontpagemag.com written by Rosie Dimanno of the Toronto Star. Surely she deserves a gold bingo--and I award her one--there!--for the opening paragraphs of A deafening Silence alone. I urge you to read the rest of it.
"There's no haven for Jews. Not within Israel and not without. The earth is stained with their blood: From an El Al counter in Los Angeles to a beach resort in Mombasa. Their children, their elderly, their scholars, their farmers, the diaspora of their tribe all targets, at home and abroad. Shopping for food, riding a bus, strolling across a campus, dining as families in restaurants, dancing in clubs, worshipping in synagogues. Not a blessed place in all the world is safe."
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Greg Jefford of the University of Chicago won a gold bingo in the headline competition I announced here in a Conning Tower entitled Ann Coulter's Revenge. Mickster gets Honorable Mention for his submission.
Thanks go to all.
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