Comments on: My, that’s some correction you’ve got there http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: craig mclaughlin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47473 craig mclaughlin Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:24:05 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47473 JTG, Yes. But he went to Purdue. So nobody's perfect. Book Notes was a damn fine program. JTG,

Yes. But he went to Purdue. So nobody’s perfect. Book Notes was a damn fine program.

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47470 Justthisguy Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:12:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47470 Concur, Craig. OMG, I do so miss Book Notes. I used to watch it, and take notes... Wasn't Mr. Lamb a Naval Officer, back when?.. Concur, Craig. OMG, I do so miss Book Notes. I used to watch it, and take notes…

Wasn’t Mr. Lamb a Naval Officer, back when?..

]]> By: craig mclaughlin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47464 craig mclaughlin Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:47:48 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47464 Thanks Buck. (Charlie Rose wishes he were Brian Lamb.) Hewitt has an interview with John Burns up also. Thanks Buck. (Charlie Rose wishes he were Brian Lamb.) Hewitt has an interview with John Burns up also.

]]> By: Buck http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47459 Buck Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:34:27 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47459 Speaking of Burns (#3): <i> Sunday, Feb. 11 Q&A: John Burns, New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief On C-SPAN at 8pm ET </i> For those of you that don't know <i>Q&A</i>, it's a two-hour (often longer) interview program run by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Viewer call-ins, too. Good stuff. Speaking of Burns (#3):

Sunday, Feb. 11
Q&A: John Burns, New York
Times Baghdad Bureau Chief
On C-SPAN at 8pm ET

For those of you that don’t know Q&A, it’s a two-hour (often longer) interview program run by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Viewer call-ins, too. Good stuff.

]]> By: John Carmichael http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47433 John Carmichael Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:01:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47433 Once again praise needs to go to the Blogosphere for holding the Mainstream Media's feet to the fire. What was the recourse 10 years ago? A letter to the editor? Yeah, that would have motivated a correction! Remindes me of the Cox and Forkum Editorial Cartoon in 2005 that summed it up: http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000535.html Once again praise needs to go to the Blogosphere for holding the Mainstream Media’s feet to the fire. What was the recourse 10 years ago? A letter to the editor? Yeah, that would have motivated a correction!

Remindes me of the Cox and Forkum Editorial Cartoon in 2005 that summed it up:

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000535.html

]]> By: SeniorD http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/comment-page-1/#comment-47432 SeniorD Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:59:25 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/10/my-thats-some-correction-youve-got-there/#comment-47432 Cap'n Oh for the days of Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and the rest of the Watergate Wrecking Crew. At least then we had attibutable names like 'Deep Throat' to give credence to their reportage. Then, WaPo wouldn't back down from a story. They stood firm, shoulder to shoulder with the truth, justice, and the American Way (as they saw it). My, how the mighty have fallen. Now if they would just repudiate Mr. Arkin. Cap’n

Oh for the days of Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and the rest of the Watergate Wrecking Crew. At least then we had attibutable names like ‘Deep Throat’ to give credence to their reportage. Then, WaPo wouldn’t back down from a story. They stood firm, shoulder to shoulder with the truth, justice, and the American Way (as they saw it).

My, how the mighty have fallen. Now if they would just repudiate Mr. Arkin.

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