As I watch the mounting list of faltering newspapers, I'm reminded of the typical storyline for a horror movie- Everybody is a potential victim, and you don't know who's going to die next, but it's going to bloody. Following Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filings by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New Have...

Rick Santorum has been crying “Islamofascist” since well before his humiliating and much deserved defeat for Senate a couple years ago. The guy is basically a one-trick pony. He whines when Christianity is supposedly persecuted, but Rick is all about distorting the Muslim faith. Today...

I was dismayed and angry to learn recently that the Philadelphia Inquirer is seeking a $10 million government bailout from my home state of Pennsylvania. My own discontent and the discontent of NB commenters over the possible bailout was made clear in my earlier NewsBusters post on the subject but n...

Like that rat-b@$t@rd Cheney, who the Philadelphia Inquirer excoriates in a editorial today for refusing to admit he’s a criminal! /snark Seriously, if the Left’s BDS is going to remain in full force until Bush and Cheney admit that every megalomaniacal fantasy that has been spun about t...

Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/13/2008. As of Thursday, mission volunteers had collected about 40 percent of the gifts needed. "The economy has hit a lot families real hard," Stewart said. "We're getting calls from Atco, Haddonfield,......

If the newspaper industry was on thin ice a month ago, the financial meltdown has meant that the creaking and cracking is getting more audible. Think of it as a triple whammy for an industry used to declaring itself the victim of a perfect storm: First, the meltdown has deepened, widened and -- most...

Is the L.A. Times the new ground zero of newspaper staff cuts and frightsizing? Los Angelos, of which I am one by nativity but not choice, may think so, imagining L.A. as the center of everybody's universe. It's not, of course, but the saga of the Times has been one of the more remarkable of the las...

Recently I blogged about the "O" man's Father's Day speech and a friend of mine who took offense to it. But I was also moved by Anette John-Hall's very fine essay in my hometown paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, about the same subject. As good reporters often do, she personalized her piece with a re...

I hope reporters Susan Snyder and Rita Girodano, from my hometown paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, don't think that I am fooled. I read their latest article about a family who moved to Philadelphia from New York, and it was disguised as a piece about dealing with the oppressive heat here in the cit...

This week, I happened to notice a series of ads running in my local paper (The Philadelphia Inquirer) for Derrie-Air airlines. There were two features that distinguished Derrie-Air from, say, USAirways and United. One was the method of determining fare: The magic comes from our one of a kind “...