USA Today: Pundit Armstrong Williams settles case over promoting education reforms.
Armstrong Williams says the $34,000 he will repay to the U.S. government is a small price to pay to put a 2-year-old punditry scandal behind him.
Is he joking? This isn’t behind him.
Armstrong Williams will always be known as a classic opinion launderer. He took money [...]
Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post says “Tightened Belts Could Put Press In a Pinch“:
Real investigative reporting, as opposed to the what-happened-yesterday stuff, is time-consuming, risky and expensive. And as one news organization after another sheds staff in this tough financial climate, it’s worth considering what aggressive journalism has produced lately.
Yes, worth considering. But it’s [...]