Yak and Check

YAK

Longtime reader/commenter Porter asked if I'd cross-post his latest on Mr. Siegel. Here's the opening:

"Didn’t Siegel get some prize or whatever, a while back? Or am I thinking of somebody else?

Yesterday he was ‘considering’ a new film that deals with the speech problems of King George VI, and Colin Firth, the lead actor in the picture, was there to explain. He did so quite well, despite the fact that Siegel was more interested in the king being some sort of out-of-date figure, or whatever...."

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CHECK

I've put a link up to NYT Check on the sidebar. For a while I'll have it near the top and eventually move it into the company of the other media critique links. Happy to have the media hounds go viral....

Head Over to the Team Blog

For the time being I'll only be posting at the NPR Team Check site. I've shut down the comments on this blog to prevent any problems from spammers or trolls. The next Q-Tips (open thread) post will be over at the new site.
See you there.

White Noise

Be sure to check out today's post on FAIR.