Stressing Hardcover Sales, Publisher Delays E-Book of Sarah Palin Memoir
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
For the second time this month, a publisher has decided to delay the electronic-book release of a major new title in hopes of maximizing hardcover sales, as the beleaguered industry works out how e-books fit into its marketing strategy.
The Harper imprint of News [...]
A number of NewsRealblog posts have recently taken David Frum to task because of his criticisms of Glenn Beck and his (Frum’s) quest to “rebrand conservatism.”
Frum appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday to talk about his “new conservative brand,” where conservatism went wrong, and how to redefine conservative ideology so Republicans can win elections again.
The not-so-suprising conclusion: social conservatives should be told to take [...]
The myth of the underpaid public employee
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 30, 2009
THOUGH IT HASN’T BEEN TRUE for years, many people believe that government employees receive such lavish employment and retirement benefits in order to compensate for their meager paychecks. The reality is that their paychecks aren’t meager at all: Government jobs pay more than [...]
As everyone knows, the idea that “Islam orders a violent end for those who leave the faith” is just “bigoted nonsense.” Unfortunately, somehow these Muslims in Bangladesh, like so many other Muslims all over the world, have fallen prey to this bigoted nonsense, misunderstood their tolerant faith, and actually threatened…
FOX media commentator Bernie Goldberg’s weekly appearance on the O’Reilly Factor turned into a shouting match about whether certain unnamed talking heads on FOX News were spinning their biased views as facts. This was in response to O’Reilly’s question as to why FOX is under constant attack by the “mainstream” media.
After conceding that FOX’s conservative views [...]
Glenn Beck did a superb job on his program last night discussing the horrifying belief system that shapes Ahmadinejad’s lust for wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
Beck refers to the Iranian despot as “the Twelver” because Ahmadinejad believes that he must purify the earth with as much human blood (and preferably of the [...]
“This attack is a direct result of the removal of roadblocks.” The Israelis removed 100 roadblocks a couple of weeks ago “to make life easier for Palestinians” and, apparently, to please George Mitchell and Barack Obama. “Israeli shot in West Bank,” by Efrat Weiss for Ynet, September 29 (thanks to…
Salam Fayad, with his suit and his tie and his reputation for being an apolitical “technocrat,” and with his American experience, is useful for the “Palestinian” Arabs as they downplay their never-ending ferocity. They do this purely for Western audiences of those whose goodwill they need, that is, those whom…
Last June, when the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards set upon pro-democracy demonstrators who were protesting the theft of that country’s presidential election by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a brutal crackdown, the world’s leaders were quick to express their condemnation.
Soon after the release of the first video footage of the carnage, presidents and [...]
But remember: they sincerely want peace! “2 Gaza rockets hit Negev; no injuries,” by Shmulik Hadad for Ynet, September 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):Two Qassam rockets fired from northern Gaza Tuesday evening landed in open areas within the limits of the Eshkol and Ashkelon Beach regional councils….
