This has been the summer of digital 3D, from early releases like “Up” to last weekend’s “The Final Destination” to the growing drumbeat for James Cameron’s much-anticipated “Avatar,” which began at Comic-Con and will crescendo with the film’s year-end release.

A recent Newsweek article touted the imminent arrival of 3D TV – which would, of course, require new TV sets, receivers and DVD players.

Not to mention, of course, the glasses.

Ah, the glasses. There’s the rub. (More…)

In the wake of both the Jayson Blair scandal and the shameful Judith Miller coverage of WMDs in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, there’s not a lot that would surprise me about the foibles of the New York Times.

But I was brought up short by something I read in the column of the Times’ public editor, Clark Hoyt, this past Sunday. (More…)