Pulitzer Biography Crashes Through

The Washington Post today carries a terrific review of the new biography of Joseph Pulitzer by my friend, James McGrath Morris, a/k/a Jamie.  That it’s a great book should be clear from my own review of it, posted on Amazon: “Joseph Pulitzer’s story is a classic American rags-to-riches-to-sellout saga. A Jewish immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer…

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Best Line of the Week

Often, the ultra-snarky columnist of the Washington Post, Dana Milbank, just gives me a cramp.  On Wednesday, though, he nailed it.  He was writing about a group interview of Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of the steadily shrinking and endangered General Motors, by a group of reporters from the steadily shrinking and endangered Traditional Media. …

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