Try to imagine full-throated apologies from the prosecutors axed in ‘Commentgate’
Much remains mysterious about the ethical rot that led federal prosecutors to indulge in anonymous online chatter.
Author: Mark Moseley
- About Mark Moseley
- Mark Moseley blogs at Your Right Hand Thief. Until mid 2014, Mark Moseley was The Lens' opinion writer, engagement specialist and coordinator for the Charter Schools Reporting Corps. After Katrina and the Federal Flood he helped create the Rising Tide conference, which grew into an annual social media event dedicated to the future of New Orleans.
Just when we need it most, Nola.com’s commentgate archive is in disarray
These omissions and mysteries are more than just a nuisance to Commentgate obsessives.
Google ruling seeks fine line between privacy and the public’s right to know
How do you “start over” when anyone who googles your name knows you were once a coke-fueled maniac dressed in, say, a chicken outfit?
Jindal dances around the truth, disguising anti-gay bigotry as freedom of speech
Instead of veiling it with code words, Jindal should own his gender discrimination. File some lawsuits, settle the constitutional question, already!
BP revisited: ‘Safer than ever’ may not be safe at all when it comes to offshore rigs
Journalists who buy into Big Oil's talking points would have us believe BP-style spills are a thing of the past.
NBA owner’s racist advice to mistress unusual only for being so candid
The right wing's rebuttal to accusations of bigotry has been to declare that the "real racists" today are liberals.
Tricentennial will make for a very big year — and perhaps an equally big tax bite
The Landrieu administration devised a grow-or-die strategy for post-Katrina recovery and hopes to bring it to consummation by 2018.
Post-mortem on Audubon millage: more to its defeat than anti-tax fervor
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
Jindal credits Louisiana’s economic revival to a tax plan he initially opposed
Jindal's own plan — income tax abolition and a sky-high sales tax — was laughed out of the 2013 Legislature.
President Jindal? If at first he doesn’t succeed, count on him to try, try again
No, he's not just aiming for the vice presidency, Moseley argues. That would be a sign of impotence that just guarantees defeat.
