Arianna Huffington Gives $1.75 Million for Investigative Journalism

Arianna Huffington, the doyenne of blogging, has made the prospect of investigative journalism a lot brighter. As her blog put it today:
NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists, directing them at first to look into stories about the nation’s economy.
The popular blog is collaborating with [...]

Circumstantial Journalism

When a Republican CEO from another state alleges that a Minnesota Republican Senator has received $75,000 in laundered money from a supporter, that allegation is newsworthy. But when the alleged event happens to have occurred in the same time period when the Senator was investing in his home, that strikes me as [...]

Franken Sense and Blur

The outlook of the Minnesota U.S. Senate election recount is obviously blurry. The source of much of the confusion is related to how challenged ballots should be characterized during the period before the State Canvassing Board rules on them.
FRANKEN VIEWPOINT. The Franken campaign says their count now shows them 22 votes ahead of [...]

Judicial Jujutsu

Lawsuits are flying around the Minnesota Senate race right and left today.
LAWSUIT #1: First, the Huffington Post reports that a lawsuit in Texas against Coleman alleged that a family friend provided $75,000 to the Senator’s family through the friend’s business. If true, that would be a very big deal, but this lawsuit [...]

Victoria’s Secret

In a star-studded pro-Norm Coleman NRSC attack ad, ex-Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson paints Al Franken as being unfit for celebrity endorsements, noting “We don’t all write dirty jokes for Playboy.”

True enough. But it’s also worth noting that celebrities don’t all label U.S. Senators as “the anti-Christ,” [...]

Who’s Voting and Who’s Lying?

Note: This long, long, long post started out to make a simple point about the AP/Yahoo poll released this weekend and – like a number of things I’ve done to the readers of this blog – turned into one of those items that will no doubt be used as evidence in my commitment hearings. I [...]