P.J. Salvatore

– You say that Matt Taibbi’s Wikipedia page was “vandalized.” I say that it was corrected. – The New Media Champion. – Remembering an icon: – A South Portland reporter is fired for plagiarism. A reporter for a weekly newspaper was fired last week after competing

– Joan Walsh and Jon Lovett’s bigoted attack on Romney’s faith. – Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm joins Politico. – Entitled reporter gets herself arrested when she tries to leave media filing center to listen to Romney’s speech, instead of

Diane Sawyer beat out 26 other television personalities to win Harris Interactive’s Favorite Current Affairs Personality: Diane Sawyer tops the latest Harris poll of favorite current affairs personalities. Of 26 names, respondents were asked which three are their favorites. Almost a quarter

– Time Magazine apologizes for putting a non-Latino on their “Yo Decido” cover: “For the first time in our history, we have a Spanish sentence as our cover line,” Rick Stengel wrote in his editor’s note. The cover, illustrating Michael Scherer’s story about

In a recent editorial, Colbert King takes an inappropriate incident from an small Atlanta publisher and uses it as a springboard for straw man. Andrew Adler speculated in print as to what options the Israeli government are discussing to push back against threats

Via Fox News: Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS – a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to

– John Stossel tries to legally open a lemonade stand, fails: Tourists told me they couldn’t believe that I had to get “all those permits.” A Pakistani man said: “That’s crazy! You should move to Pakistan!” But I don’t want to

From AFP: American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times said. Colvin and a group of other

– The cost of gas jumps 10 cents during ABC’s “World News” broadcast. – Why was Fast and Furious not included as a main discussion in last night’s debate? The debate took place in Arizona of all places, a border state,

This, this is how the press should behave with the administration, with any administration, with any politician. Adversarial. Our administration shouldn’t reverse this role with the press and go a step further by punishing them for it. An abridged free press compromises one of

– Is Media Matters Obama’s Watergate? – Meghan McCain debates the Virginia law … without having read it or even an “emoticon” of familiarity with it. My favorite quote from McCain, ever: “Vaginal probing is something I’ve had friends texting me about ‘what

– Day three and progressives still have yet to counter the fact that Virginia’s law, does not in fact, require transvaginal ultrasounds, aka “rape” to progressives. Don’t ask them what that makes abortion, if an ultrasound is “rape.” Granted, the law

The Daily Kos has blacklisted one of their bloggers, Eric Allen Bell, after he published his concerns over a mega-mosque: [youtube -kMDPk47cgc nolink] Eric Allen Bell was a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” until he was recently banned for the

– Amy Poehler: “We need contraception. There are too many people.” Except there aren’t. All over the birth rates are declining. We already have a government too big for our population, pretty soon ourgovernment will out-populate our population. It negatively affects our economy