Growing up in the 70s I have fond memories of Walter Cronkite. I remember hearing his voice fill our living room every evening. With his passing we also lose what greatness in journalism really was. In 15 minutes Cronkite could give you the news that was important to our nation. Could you imagine someone doing […]
Following Boehner’s having to walk back remarks he made this weekend about stimulus money not being spent in Ohio the DNC has launched a new ad: The most disturbing thing is that the local media isn’t covering this. If you relied upon the news in Boehner’s own district you wouldn’t hear about it. Its this […]
He talks about how great democracy is in the Middle East. I don’t find news like this very great: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not […]
This deserves some serious questioning: If you falsely yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater and everyone tramples each other to death, you get sent to jail. So what should be done with Ann Coulter, who has argued that The New York Times should have been blown up by Timothy McVeigh and that Times executive editor […]