About a month ago, venture capitalist Chris Sacca wrote this on Twitter. Journalism: The art of ignoring all the facts that don’t support the article you’ve already written. I retweeted this and replied: The same could be said for my blogging…. Sacca’s quote generated some discussion on Twitter and some email as well. Some asked [...]
Bob Woodward
Ducking Responsibility
Bob Woodward takes over Thomas Rick’s blog and talks about Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir. Rumsfeld’s memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others — including President Bush — distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away. It is a travesty, and I think [...]
The failed benchmark
I read Bob Woodward’s book, The War Within while on vacation a couple of weeks ago. In it Condoleeza Rice was constantly talking about providing electricity to the Iraqis as a key benchmark of success. Well according to the New York Times, the occupiers of Iraq have not done a very good job of doing [...]
