PressEthic

A children’s author, a poet and a former NY Times cultural correspondent have filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, claiming its online library will violate copyright law.

On September 7, recall supporters trying to oust Spokane, Washington Mayor Jim West collected the 12,700 names needed for a recall, according to the Spokesman-Review.

While trolling the many, many articles about Katrina, I noticed something: more than a few reporters have described it as a storm of “biblical proportions”; of “biblical scope”; as a “biblical tragedy”.

Or so a September 12th NY Times profile says.

Even as Anderson Cooper, Keith Olberman and others have offered tough—and sometimes downright scathing—criticism of the administration’s response to Katrina, reporters dropped the ball at a critical moment: holding Michael D. Brown accountable.