Posts by Bill Steigerwald
Men at Work
While on a walk with wife Trudi on the crowded Montour Bike and Walking Trail south of Pittsburgh last week we came upon four construction workers taking a break on a rooftop. As I took their photo I yelled to them to wave and jokingly accused them of violating local social distancing ordinances, but they…
Read MoreRadio Rant: Our Top Journalists Failed to Question Wild-Ass Covid-19 Predictions
At the 60-minute mark of this podcast from Dan Proft, a smart radio talk-show guy in Chicago at AM 560 the Answer, I’m interviewed about the failure of our media to question the sky-high projections of U.S. Covid-19 deaths by disease modeler Prof. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London. Bill’s interview with Dan Proft…
Read MoreThe New York Post vs. the New York Times
I’ve always used the wild and crazy and fun and reader-pleasing journalism of the New York Post and the smug, serious, boring, good-for-you journalism of the NY Times as the two ends of the newspaper spectrum. In the interest of maximum reader satisfaction, during my 30-plus career in newspapers — you remember them, don’t you…
Read MoreDead Mag Walking — Time’s Hit Piece on Sweden’s Other Way of Fighting the Coronavirus
Maybe part of the reason Time magazine has become so irrelevant is that its journalism stinks. For decades Time and its weekly cousins Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were the go-to-places to read continuing in-depth coverage of presidential races and world-shaking events like 9/11 and our serial wars in the Middle East. The…
Read MoreFor future reference: Never believe the wild-assed guesses of the disease modelers
It’s way too late now, but here’s a concept to keep in mind for the future, if there is one, when the next virus comes along: Never believe the wild-ass scary numbers that an expert modeler of diseases from the USA or the UK or the WHO projects, predicts or guesses. it ought…
Read MoreQ&A: Fred Singer, the proud godfather of global warning denial, dies at 95
In 2005 I did one of my weekly Q&As with smart, important, interesting or newsworthy people with Fred Singer, the brilliant scientist and reliable critic of climate change and the idiocy and hysteria associated with it. Global warming is always a hot topic in liberal media circles, where the political and scientific consensus is that…
Read MoreHollywood hasn’t discovered my ’30 Days a Black Man’ history book yet. Perhaps no one out there has read the ‘haunting’ and ‘rollicking’ tale or seen these kindly blurbs from some smart and talented fellow journalists.
Editorial Reviews Juan Williams at FOX News —– As a story from the Jim Crow past, Bill Steigerwald’s recounting of Sprigle’s mission . . . reminds us of what an honest conversation about race can accomplish as we continue on the path toward a more equitable future. Paul Theroux, travel guru — This is a…
Read MorePittsburgh 1980
January 20, 1980 CALENDAR LAST PAGE PITTSBURGH: UP FROM THE SMOKY PITS BY BILL STEIGERWALD This is another in the running Calendar series on cultural scenes this one on Pittsburgh, whose Steelers probably will lose today’s Super Bowl game to the Rams. The writer, a native of Pittsburgh just back for a vacation visit, is…
Read MoreThe NY Times blames a government ventilator scandal on the private sector
Wonder why the New York Times is accused of liberal bias and dishonesty? There’s a fresh example on Page 1 of today’s paper of record: The Times’ long, dull investigative piece tells the scandalous tale of how the U.S. government tried to build an emergency stockpile of ventilators for 13 years, but failed. According to…
Read MoreAnother clueless & imbalanced Uber-hating article, this time from CityLab.com
In my never-ending mission to challenge the lazy & lame anti-Uber articles written by my fellow journalists who hate Uber, think Uber drivers should earn $60k a year with full health care, and have no clue how awful the typical urban taxicab monopolies were for 80 years, I may have gone overboard. But in case…
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