Michael O. Allen

Tag: New York Times

  • Howell Raines is Neither a ‘Liar’ Nor is He Crazy

    In this Sunday’s Washington Post Op-Ed, he asks questions that have long needed to be asked. Take this one, his first: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent…

  • Check This Out!

    Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen It’s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the “conventions that don’t add to your understanding of…

  • Colson Whitehead, funny guy

    With all due respect to the people whose business it is to find hillarity in our politics–the Stewarts, Colberts, Griers and Feys–I read the funniest bit yesterday on the Op-ed page of The New York Times. It was written by novelist Colson Whitehead. Whitehead, a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, is…

  • She scares the bejeebers out of me, too.

    The New York Times has a great piece out today about Gov.  Palin’s personal style of politics. I’m more convinced than ever that Palin has abused her power for personal and political purposes. My favorite line, from Laura Chase, who ran Palin’s first mayoral campaign in 1995: I’m still proud of Sarah, but she scares…

  • What we sow

    Seeds of Destruction By BOB HERBERT, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 10, 2008 The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans, white Americans,” and…

  • THE BIG FIX IN JERSEY; a brighter Star-Ledger

    May/June 1995 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN The Star-Ledger has always seen New Jersey — from the shore communities in the south through the urban/suburban sprawl of its central counties to the exurban north — as one big hometown, and it has chronicled its citizens’ common concerns. A common concern these days is the tumult of…