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- Rex Smith: Trusting in the DNA of newsMarch 13
- About 2,500 years ago, Thucydides set out to record what had happened in the Peloponnesian War, in the process laying down principles that could just as well guide a correspondent today in Iraq, or anywhere else, for that matter. “I have made it a principle not to write down the first story that came my way, [...]
- Rex Smith: Hunger for truth not so strongMarch 6
- Whatever your political inclination, you must agree that there’s a mess right now at the state Capitol. And you know, of course, that it’s the media’s fault. That’s what an old friend told me this week, suggesting that the media was “hounding the governor” and elevating David Paterson’s relatively minor mistakes into front-page scandal, probably to [...]
- Rex Smith: Paterson still has a chanceFebruary 27
- Maybe tomorrow will be David Paterson’s last day in office. Or maybe the next day, or some day next week. A lot of people are saying that his resignation is inevitable. But the governor just might be able to stick around to fight another day — to finish the job he inherited and hand over the [...]
- Rex Smith: After the hype, a real truth toldFebruary 20
- Some things cannot possibly live up to the hype that surrounds them. Angelina Jolie in person, we are reliably informed, does not take the breath away. Barack Obama is unlikely to usher in an era of peace and prosperity during his first term. And now, about that newspaper reporting that some people had predicted would bring [...]
- Rex Smith: When facts lag rumors, truth slipsFebruary 13
- One of the first lessons they teach at Politician University, I was told long ago, is that you don’t gain votes by repeating the bad things folks say about you. So Barack Obama doesn’t say, “I don’t have a Marxist heart and a wish to spend us into oblivion…” and Sarah Palin doesn’t begin her speeches [...]