‘We’re a bunch of idiots’

Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently wrapped up a two-day media blitz of national media, chatting with just about anyone with a mic and national airtime, from Larry King to the panel on “The View.”
‘Blago’ was a soundbyte machine during his two-day media blitz. He plead his case to any and all who wanted to [...]

JonBenet: Still dead.

Somehow, someway JonBenet Ramsey is back in the news.

She shouldn’t have been news in 1996. She shouldn’t have been news outside of Denver. The story should have been buried before JonBenet was.
And it’s NOT news today. This is a case study of news judgment gone insane.
But according to MSNBC, the top news of the day is the [...]

Holy crap! Natalee Holloway case ’solved’!

There’s word that prosecutors in Aruba are standing by as authorities pursue a tip from a reporter that may blow open the Natalee Holloway case …
Journalist Peter DeVries says, on his Web site, that the Holloway case will be ’solved’ … as soon as Sunday rolls around … so he can solve the case on [...]

Front-page blunders

‘Realtor to the stars’ Linda Stein managed the Ramones and before becoming the real estate agent to Madonna, Sting, Billy Joel, Steven Spielberg and Angelina Jolie. Well, that’s before she took a blunt object upside her head and neck. She was found dead in her $3 million Manhattan apartment.
The arrest of her former aide in [...]