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we move to canada (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On a cold March night in southwestern Virginia in 2003, one week prior to the United States invasion of Iraq, I filed into a packed auditorium of 2,000 students, including the entire corps of Virginia Tech military cadets dressed in white pants, white gloves, and navy blue hats. Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, a weekly news magazine that airs on U.S. network television, was to speak on the topic...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Osama Bin Laden As Responsible For The 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based On Evidence? By David Ray Griffin Posted on October 30, 2009 Courtesy Of Veterans Today The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand,...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
“If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision,’” Mary McCarthy wrote, “you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.” Calling a course of action "realistic" is, of course, a rhetorical strategy. Everyone, after all, thinks they're being realistic. You make a point out of how realistic you are being only if you're...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I have been following the current debate about sending troops to Afghanistan. I have no idea of how many troops are needed but in our rush to stop the violence, we should not forget that the basic problem is lack of education and development. I feel we should fight insurgencies with laptops, not guns. We are spending a billion dollars per week there using guns; we could have a long lasting and positive...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I've credited Digby for the term "Village" before (and use it all the time, hell I have an entire category of posts dedicated to the damn thing ) but here she explains the story behind the sobriquet which is actually something I wasn't 100% aware of. I have been getting a huge number of hits today from Greg Sargent's old blog post about the genesis of the term "the Village" which...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Le Hameau de la Potomac by digby I have been getting a huge number of hits today from Greg Sargent's old blog post about the genesis of the term "the Village" which I eventually traced to this post today by John Aravosis, who hadn't heard the term and didn't know where it came from. I have explained this before but I think it's worth repeating once in a while since the term is actually fairly...
Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Interesting piece by Joan Walsh in Salon today on the way the media treated Clinton . "[F]rom start to finish, President Clinton was besieged by a vicious just-say-no GOP abetted by the perversely, inexplicably, cruelly anti-Clinton leaders of the so-called liberal media -- from the New York Times' lame crusades against Whitewater and Chinese donors and Wen Ho Lee, to the integrity-free "opinion"...
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
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Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
If I were David Gregory right now, I'd certainly be looking behind my shoulders to see if I could spot any Rachel Maddow sightings. For a few weeks now there has been a quiet, simmering push that Rachel Maddow -- one of the most popular television journalists on the block -- might be the medicine necessary to help NBC's "Meet the Press" emerge from rather slumpish ratings in the wake of...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Meet the Press has been pretty lame since Tim Russert died. No offense to David Gregory, who’s done respectable work, but he was always the safe choice, "and he's made the show just that: safe," writes Brian Donovan. NBC's Sunday morning stalwart needs its fire back, and fortunately, sister network...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The underlying plan: DE-LEGITMIZE FOXNEWS TO SILENCE CRITICISM TO AVOID CLAIM OF BEING COUNTER FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox." Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in...
W.C. Varones Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
You can skip to about minute 4 or 5 in this video when Chrissy goes to Defcon 5 Obama defense mode . What a waste. Matthews is a good interviewer and could have been one of the greats like Tim Russert. Instead he throws it away being a partisan in the tank for Obama.
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
In a media environment currently dominated by highly partisan ranters, what media figures can, like the recently deceased Walter Cronkite and Tim Russert, earn trust and respect from a wide audience?
All Excerpts (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Tim Russert joined NBC News in 1984; the beginning of a 24 year run that brought him national acclaim and the admiration of his colleagues at NBC and elsewhere. It also gave American television vie…
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Katie Couric received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media at the University of South Dakota Thursday. The award bears the name of USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who just three years ago wrote that he didn't think Couric was up to the job of "CBS Evening News" anchor, writing , "Couric can't cut it if she stays on the non-news fringe she started out on this week." Neuharth...
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